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Development through bricolage : rethinking institutions for natural resource management

This book draws on over a decade of research in different environments ( Africa, Europe, Latin America) and meets the criteria of extended scale and scope. In eight substantive, potentially stand-alone, chapters it integrates social theory with empirical field research to elaborate Cleaver's concept of institutional bricolage. This is challenging to mainstream theory (Ostrom and others) and offers a corrective to the resilience and socio-ecological systems theories embedded in that thinking. The book provides a conceptual framework for those working at the critical boundaries of natural resource management and development studies.