Subject(s): Forest management -- Water resource Management -- Democratic decentralization through a natural resource lens -- Between micro-politics and administrative imperatives- decentralization and watershed mission in Madhya Pradesh, decentralization when land and resource rights are deeply contested - case study of Mkambati eco-tourism project on wild coast of south Africa -- Formal decentralization and imperative of decentralization from below- case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua, democratic decentralization and traditional authority - dilemmas of land administration in rural south Africa, what lies behind decentralization- forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia, will decentralization work for the people and forests of Indonesia -- Decentralization, rural livelihoods and pasture- land management in post socialist Mongolia , decentralization and accountability in forest management - case from Yunnan, southwest China, social and organizational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon's forest management decentralization model, user committees- potentially damaging second wave of decentralization, decentralizing water resource management in Brazil, decentralizing natural resource management- recipe for sustainability and equity