Resources and Priorities in Maramureº County

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, 2021

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 2015

The aim of the study was to identify the local common resources, conducting SWOT analysis of existing traditional institutions, identify how access to and control over of common resources administered by traditional institutions, identify community and government proposals to enhance existing institutional mechanism and other measures to address unnecessary competition over resources and identify alignment of local government role with that of community priorities. The study employed Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Key Informant Interview (KII) to collect the primary data. 1 FGD and 2-3 FGDs were held in each kebele. Natural pasture, trees and shrubs, livestock and water bodies are the major natural resources in the area. The communities in nyangatom have their own traditional way of administrating the available natural resources. Everybody in the community has access to the available resources but the control of these resources mainly lies on men’s specifically community elders. p...

Journal of Rural Studies, 1988

Managing the use of rural resources typically requires the consideration of a diverse set of concerns and often also the resolution of conflicts. The identification and implementation of appropriate methods of analysis could assist in defining suitable development alternatives. However, the need to consider multiple goals, which may often be expressed in disparate metrics, poses particularly difficult problems in the development of analytical methods. A discussion of fundamental questions associated with assessing resource developments in the rural context is presented in this paper. This is followed by a description of multiobjective goal programming, an analytical procedure that could be employed to generate information that may assist with resource development decisions. A description of the application of a goal programming system to assess options in resource use relative to forest energy developments in Ontario, Canada illustrates the analytical procedures and provides examples of the types of information that can be generated.

Resource-rich regions might be expected to exploit their natural endowments in order to develop comparative advantages; however, resource abundance may be futile if poorly managed. Intriguingly, changes in regional economies and social values entail a more holistic approach of how, where and why management decisions about natural resources are made. The present paper examines public perceptions concerning the significance of natural resources and the role that they may play in regional and rural development. Primary data were collected through personal interviews to a sample of 255 citizens that were analysed through a combination of factor, confirmatory, cluster and discriminant analyses. Results reveal three distinct groups of citizens: the "active-conscious" citizens, the "environmentally-moderate" citizens and the "environmentally-passive" citizens. The results highlight sectors and resources eligible to maintain and invigorate the regional and rural developmental path.

European Journal of Business and Management Research

This study aimed at establishing the influence of resource planning on successful completion of water projects in semi-arid areas in Kenya with a specific focus on Machakos County. The target population consisted of 648 representative beneficiaries of water projects in Machakos County, Water Management committee members, Sub-County water officers and Machakos County Local Coordinators who are involved in water projects in Machakos County. A sample of 241 respondents was selected using purposive and simple random sampling procedures. The study had a response rate of 70.5%. Descriptive and inferential statistic was employed to analyze the quantitative data. From the simple linear regression conducted, the findings revealed resource Planning influences successful completion of water projects meaning that there was positive relationship between resource planning and successful completion of water projects in semi-Arid Areas. The study recommends the need for legislative authorities to i...

Anyone considering an educational program about the role of natural resources in rural development must consider five points:

Economic Geography, 2009

Abstract: The role of natural resources in regional development is the subject of a debate between dependency theorists, who argue that natural resources impede development, and comparative-advantage theorists, who argue that resources can expedite development. This debate is assessed by a case study analysis of the impact of resource development on a regional economy. The case study uses a model to estimate the comparative advantage of the resource sector. The results show that natural resources have the potential to provide a significant comparative advantage relative to other economic sectors by virtue of generating resource rent, which is a surplus above normal returns to other factors of production. The case study also shows that there are considerable risks in resource-led growth, including the propensity to dissipate rent and increase community instability by building surplus capacity. These risks are amenable to mitigation because they are largely the result of poor management of resource development. The case study demonstrates that the most productive analytical approach for understanding the role of natural resources in the development process is a synthetic approach, which combines the insights of the dependency and comparative-advantage paradigms into a unified framework. It also demonstrates that the concept of resource rent, which has frequently been ignored in development theory, must be reintegrated into the unified framework to improve the understanding of the role of natural resources in the regional development process.

Proceedings of the International Conference “Information Society and Sustainable Development” ISSD 2016

Rural tourism planning has adapted and expanded to include broader environmental and socio-cultural concerns, and the need to develop and promote economic development strategies at local, regional and national scales, particularly within an increasingly globalied tourism environment. Planning for rural tourism has traditionally focused on!land-use oning, site development, accommodation and building regulations, the density of tourist development, the presentation of cultural, historical and natural tourist featuresand the provision of infrastructure including roads and sewage. "or#ing li#e experts for elaborate a county strategy, from the perspective of rural tourism we underline that management decisions for the allocation of outdoor recreationresources are seldom guided by strategic policy framewor#s. Decisions are typically madein a reactive manner in response to various pressures from groups competing for the sameresource or lobbying for di ff erent management of a particular resource.

2015

The aim of the study was to identify the local common resources, conducting SWOT analysis of existing traditional institutions, identify how access to and control over of common resources administered by traditional institutions, identify community and government proposals to enhance existing institutional mechanism and other measures to address unnecessary competition over resources and identify alignment of local government role with that of community priorities. The study employed Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Key Informant Interview (KII) to collect the primary data. 1 FGD and 2-3 FGDs were held in each kebele. Natural pasture, trees and shrubs, livestock and water bodies are the major natural resources in the area. The communities in nyangatom have their own traditional way of administrating the available natural resources. Everybody in the community has access to the available resources but the control of these resources mainly lies on men's specifically community elder...