The NRM journey

PGPRM 1

Pedagogy

• Learning as ‘Serious Fun’• How to make learning quicker (collective

learning), (wider), deeper, more enduring and fun

• Learning by Doing• Learning how to learn through

assignments, field visits and term papers• Start, Stumble, Self correct and Share &

listen to others

NRM Modules• Context and introduction -

• Environment and NRM Basics

• Watershed management

• Field Visit and GIS Training

• NRM and institutions• Policies and Impacts (through term

papers)

Various classes

• Introduction• Context of NRM• Global environmental crisis• Thinking through the environment• Ecosystems Basic concepts• Films – AD 2048, Drinking the Sky, Village

Republics, Kothapally success story (watershed of Myrada) did not see Raincatchers...

Presentations by students

• Energy, forest, water resources, biodiversity and conservation, Chipko, pollution various forms, seed balls etc Dhabolkar, carbon trading, introduction to watersheds ….

• GIS special session• Field visit to Agragamee• Mid Term exam• Motivating professionals for rural India• Attitudes to learning ..... followed by mass

bunking of class

Immersing in watersheds

• case study of vana samrakshana samiti

• Introduction to watersheds– what are they, watershed management,

objectives, terms related to watersheds, principles, benefits etc.

• ICRISAT watershed story (ies) – NRM and institutional change

• Stakeholder analysis

Term Papers

• Multilayered learning – abstract, term paper draft, comments, presentations, final draft....(where is the reading material?)

• water conflicts and debates 5 groups• NRM general – wetlands, floods,

irrigation etc – 9 groups• Issues and policies – peoples

participation, sustainable development, watersheds

Readings shared

• Indian road to sustainability• Motivating professionals for rural India• Combating land degradation and drought• participatory watershed development and soil

conservation – Anirudh Krishna• Sustaining success and learning from failures –

Anil Gupta• Delineating the discipline of NRM – manoj

Thomas• Also Towards Green Villages

Delineating discipline of NRM

• The profile of the NR manager is varied• NRM involves high level of complexity, many variables

beyond the control of the manager. • conventionally seen as extension of traditional manager,

now realised that it is a higher objective• economics is on uncertain grounds. Multiplicity of

objectives.• Most complicated problems in CPRs and open access

resources.• Conflict resolution... & cooperation• the challenge of biodiversity• Addressing poverty

Constituent DisciplinesPhysical and biologicalsciencesEngineeringForestry ManagementAgricultural sciencesSocial Sciences

LevelsGlobal-national-regional-village- communitylevel Specific resource-integrated NRMResource-sociopolitico-economic

Agencies involvedGovernmentNGOsFor profit private firmsStatutory bodiesInternational AgenciesFarmers and IndividualsOthers

Tools and approachesRange of approachesInfluencing propertyrightsManaging communityparticipationInnovative approachesInstitutional histories – timelines, stakeholder analysis

Domain of problemsManaging CPRsConflict resolutionManaging otherrelated needsSocially nested issuesBiodiversityCoordinating agencies

Task EnvironmentLegal regimeProperty rightsState interventionsPoliciesTraditions and institutionsInternational laws

The Discipline of Natural Resource Management (NRM)

Constituent DisciplinesPhysical and biologicalsciencesEngineeringForestry ManagementAgricultural sciencesSocial Sciences

LevelsGlobal-national-regional-village- communitylevel Specific resource-integrated NRMResource-sociopolitico-economic

Agencies involvedGovernmentNGOsFor profit private firmsStatutory bodiesInternational AgenciesFarmers and IndividualsOthers

Tools and approachesRange of approachesInfluencing propertyrightsManaging communityparticipationInnovative approaches

Domain of problemsManaging CPRsConflict resolutionManaging otherrelated needsSocially nested issuesBiodiversityCoordinating agencies

Task EnvironmentLegal regimeProperty rightsState interventionsPoliciesTraditions and institutionsInternational laws

The Discipline of Natural Resource Management (NRM)