CONTENTS Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: An Introduction 1 Between Micro-Politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralisation and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India 26 Decentralisation when Land and Resource Rights are Deeply Contested: A Case Study of the Mkambati Eco-Tourism Project on the Wild Coast of South Africa 41 Formal Decentralisation and the Imperative of Decentralisation 'from Below': A Case Study of Natural Resource Management in Nicaragua 55 Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa 71 What Lies behind Decentralisation? Forest, Powers and Actors in Lowland Bolivia 90 Closer to People and Trees: Will Decentralisation Work for the People and the Forests of Indonesia? 110 Decentralisation, Rural Livelihoods and Pasture-Land Management in Post-Socialist Mongolia 133 Decentralisation and Accountability in Forest Management: A Case from Yunnan, Southwest China 153 The Social and Organisational Roots of Ecological Uncertainties in Cameroon's Forest Management Decentralisation Model 174 User Committees: A Potentially Damaging Second Wave of Decentralisation? 192 Decentralising Water Resource Management in Brazil 214 Decentralising Natural Resource Management: A Recipe for Sustainability and Equity? 235 Index255