Scenario methods can be used to anticipate the future and expand the creativity of people thinking about complex forest management situations. This manual describes the use of scenarios with multiple stakeholders, with examples drawn from community-based forest management. Four classes of scenari...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Buck, L.
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[Anticipandose al cambio: guia para el uso de escenarios como instrumento para el manejo forestal adaptable]
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Anticipandose al cambio: guia para el uso de escenarios como instrumento para el manejo forestal adaptable
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
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...
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.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Historical perspectives on forest policy change in Asia: an introduction]
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Historical perspectives on forest policy change in Asia: an introduction
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