Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 23, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(4):395-397; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn023
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Editorial |
Editorial
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This issue has both an African and Australian orientation, and begins with two articles that pick up from the last issue and the most recent Special Issue (vol. 43, no. 3) on Participatory approaches in community development, focused as they are on improving participatory practices. Natural resource management is yet another area of public policy that has adopted at least the rhetoric if not always the practice of participation often under the framework of co-management. Emmanuel Marfo explores the example of the Social Responsibility Agreement in Ghana for the acquisition of timber rights to reflect on the key issues and prerequisites for public participation. Readers familiar with the participation discourse