Description
"Security is a socio-cultural phenomenon. For most traditional and local communities all over the world it is rooted in the capacity to be together, think together and act together to maintain their identity, cohesiveness and collective strength in the face of natural and man-made crises and calamities. This is much of what co-management of natural resources is all about. So, anything that has to do with co-management has to do, in a profound sense, with collective security". In this article, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend illustrates how a community afflicted by a natural disaster bonded and seized the moment to enhance, through common thinking and action, its collective security.
Information
- Author(s)
- Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
- Publisher
- IUCN - World Conservation Union
- Place published
- Geneva
- Date / journal vol no.
- in "Environment & Security: Why Nature is a Matter of Survival", Policy Matters, Newsletter of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, Issue No. 9, May 2002
- Pages
- pp 14-15
