In a difficult political economy, marked notably by a multifaceted crisis, Cameroon, like many other African countries, launched the restructuring of the policy and legal framework that governed the management of forest until the mid-1990s. Given the deep conflict of discourse surrounding the iss...
Oyono, P.R.
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[New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon: tenure reform, decentralization category or something else?]
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New niches of community rights to forests in Cameroon: tenure reform, decentralization category or something else?
One of the major innovations in Cameroon’s forest industry is the devolution of management authority to local communities. These communities have viewed this shift as a response to their age-old demands — and frustrations — regarding profits from commercial harvesting of forests on their land bas...
Oyono, P.R.
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[Acteurs locaux, representation et politics des eco-pouvoirs dans le Cameroun rural post-1994]
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Acteurs locaux, representation et politics des eco-pouvoirs dans le Cameroun rural post-1994
Oyono, P.R.
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Diaw, C.
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Efoua, S.
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Mala, W.A.
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Assembe-Mvondo, S.
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[Monitoring to ease forest management conflicts in Cameroon]
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Monitoring to ease forest management conflicts in Cameroon
This report presents the results of research on forest management decentralization and local governance conduted in Southern Cameroon in 2003 and 2004. The forest sector provides insights into the decentralization process writ large, since, as a source of national wealth, "green gold". The study ...
Oyono, P.R.
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Ribot, J.C.
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Larson, A.M.
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[Green and black gold in rural Cameroon: natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability]
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Green and black gold in rural Cameroon: natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability
This paper examines Cameroon’s model of forest-management decentralisation by characterising its organisational infrastructure and by assessing – and anticipating – the ecological effects of those policy changes. The essay is based on nvironmental governance research conducted in Cameroon during ...
Oyono, P.R.
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[The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon’s forest management decentralisation model]
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The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon’s forest management decentralisation model