Formal decentralisation and the imperative of decentralisation 'from below': a case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua

This article argues that decentralization of natural resource management is a political process resisted by the central government due to the feared loss of power and/or economic resources to local governments. In Nicaragua, although the formal process of power transfers largely stagnated from 1997...

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Main Author: Larson, A.M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: 2004
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18977

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