This chapter explains the purpose and methods of the book Local Forest Management. The book uses 12-20 case studies in each China, Philippines and India to understand the impacts of community-based forest management policies of the last two decades. We define impacts in terms of the changes in ec...
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.
,
Wollenberg, Eva K.
,
Contreras, A.P.
,
Liu Dachang
,
Kelkar, G.
,
Nathan, D.
,
Sarin, M.
,
Singh, N.M.
,
[Local forest management: conclusion]
,
Local forest management: conclusion
This article reviews the policies for the tenure and management of non-state forests that have undergone fundamental changes in China since the early 1950s. Private ownership and household management that were dominant in 1950-55 gave way to collectivization in 1956. Collective management remaine...
Liu Dachang
,
[Tenure and management of non-state forests in China since 1950: a historical review]
,
Tenure and management of non-state forests in China since 1950: a historical review
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
,
Edmunds, D.
,
[Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China]
,
Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China