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This paper evaluates 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 authority. We also examine the factors that have...


Wollenberg, Eva K.Campbell, Bruce M.Shackleton, S.Edmunds, D.Shanley, P.[Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution]Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution

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.Edmunds, D.Anderson, J.[Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management

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.Edmunds, D.Buck, L.[Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests]Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests

Environment and development practitioners increasingly are interested in identifying methods, institutional arrangements and policy environments that promote negotiations among natural resource stakeholders leading to collective action and, it is hoped, sustainable resource management. Yet the im...


Edmunds, D.Wollenberg, Eva K.[A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations]A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations

Forest devolution policies have generated much hope for sustainable development in rural areas of the South. Yet such policies have not always generated economic benefits for the poor, and have seldom transferred substantial decision-making authority to the poorest forest users. We discuss four c...


Edmunds, D.Wollenberg, Eva K.[Historical perspectives on forest policy change in Asia: an introduction]Historical perspectives on forest policy change in Asia: an introduction

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.Anderson, J.Edmunds, D.[Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]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.Edmunds, D.Anderson, J.[Editorial: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]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.Campbell, Bruce M.Wollenberg, Eva K.Edmunds, D.[Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?]Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?

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