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
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
Governments around the world increasingly seek to manage their forests with the collaboration of the people living nearby. Ministries of forestry or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or oppor...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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Edmunds, D.
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Shanley, P.
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[Collaborative management of forests]
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Collaborative management of forests
Local government is built around careful and illuminating case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests in several Asian countries. The studies demonstrate that devolution policies - contrary to the claims of governments - have actually increased governmental con...
Edmunds, D.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Local forest management: the impacts of devolution policies]
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Local forest management: the impacts of devolution policies
How can different interest groups engage together in learning processes that enable them to better manage community forests? In this volume, practitioners from eight countries document their experience with the aim of identifying how to characterize social learning, as well as how to improve upon...
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
Community forest management worldwide has involved diverse types and varying levels of success in social learning, yet little efforts has been made to analyze these experiences and link them to emerging social learning theory. This chapter is a synthesis of the contributions of the workshop parti...
Buck, L.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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[Social learning in the collaborative management of community forests: lessons from the field]
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Social learning in the collaborative management of community forests: lessons from the field
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
This chapter describes the change in the institutional arrangements for property rights to the former collective forest lands and the sifts in oversight responsibility for these lands from central to regional and local governments. The data rely on national forest survey data and the authors' own...
Liu Dachang
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Edmunds, D.
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[Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China]
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Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China