the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research
(NCCR) North-South is based on a network of partnerships
with research institutions in the South and East, focusing
on the analysis and mitigation of syndromes of global
change and globalisation.
The objective of the ‘Transversal Theme’ Decentralisation
and Social Movements – formalising participation through
decentralisation in natural resource management: a
sustainable mitigation strategy? (coordination by Urs
Geiser and Stephan Rist) is to deepen and consolidate
insights gained by NCCR researchers specifically in
Central and South America and South Asia into processes
of formalising participation in natural resource
management, in order to generate constructive-critical
inputs into the scientific debate as well as for development
practitioners