This chapter examines China’s experiment on devolution policies for local forest management. These policies included the transfer of forest management from collectives to households, the involvement of villagers in the management of state forests, and the shift of some decision-making authority i...
Liu Dachang
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Edmunds, D.
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[The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China]
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The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China
This chapter concludes from a study of the impacts of forest devolution policies in China, India and the Philippines that devolution has had significant impacts, but mostly on increasing forest cover. Changes in livelihoods were mixed, and control over forests was little changed. In some cases, d...
Edmunds, D.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Contreras, A.P.
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Liu Dachang
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Kelkar, G.
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Nathan, D.
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Sarin, M.
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Singh, N.M.
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[Local forest management: conclusion]
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Local forest management: conclusion
Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasize internal dynamics. We show how scenario methods can be used to 1) enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholder...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Buck, L.
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[Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting]
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Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting
This special issue contains an editorial and seven articles. They examine the emerging pluralism in the governance of forests. Forests are naturally suited to pluralistic decision-making because of the many products and services they provide. They often involve complex arrangements for accommodat...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Anderson, J.
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[Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]
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Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management
This chapter synthesizes results from case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests in three Asian countries, China, India and the Philippines. It also seeks to explain the disappointing impacts of forest devolution policies in terms of the divergent interests an...
Edmunds, D.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Whose devolution is it anyway? divergent constructs, interests and capacities between the poorest forest users and states]
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Whose devolution is it anyway? divergent constructs, interests and capacities between the poorest forest users and states
Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasise internal dynamics. Scenario methods can be used to: (1) enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholders at these...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Buck, L.
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[Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests]
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Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests
Forest decision-making is becoming more pluralistic. As the numbers of groups involved in forest decisions have increased, concern about how to accommodate multiple interests has similarly burgeoned. This article presents pluralism as a foundation for understanding how less powerful group's inter...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Anderson, J.
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Edmunds, D.
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[Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]
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Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management
The authors introduce the special issue on accommodating multiple interests in forest management and provide an overview of the seven papers in the issue. The papers document and analyze existing approaches and from them identify principles related to pluralism and good governance. Three themes e...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Anderson, J.
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[Editorial: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]
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Editorial: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management
This paper draws together evidence from a number of studies on the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the perspective of local people. Devolution outcomes are assessed in terms of who has greater benefits and decision-making author...
Shackleton, S.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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[Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?]
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Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?