This paper evaluates Bolivian's recent experience of giving municipal government a role in forest management. It first provides background information on Bolivia's decentralisation policies, including the 1994 Popular Participatiion Law and the 1996 forestry law. It then presents case studies of ...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Pacheco, P.
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Johnson, J.
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Pavez, I.
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Vallejo, C.
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Velez, R.
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[Local governments and forests in the Bolivian lowlands]
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Local governments and forests in the Bolivian lowlands
This paper analyzes the growing role of municipal governments in Bolivia and Nicaragua in forest-related issues on the basis of some thirty case studies. It first provides background information on forest issues and legislation concerning municipal involvement in forest issues in the two countrie...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Pacheco, P.
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Mendoza, R.
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Barahona, T.
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[Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua]
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Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua
This chapter analyses the model of decentralization of forest management in Bolivia, and assess its main outcomes. Though significant functions were delegated to municipalities regarding forest resources such as control of forest crime, monitoring of forest management, delimitation and allocation...
Pacheco, P.
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[Municipalities and local participation in forest management in Bolivia]
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Municipalities and local participation in forest management in Bolivia
This paper presents a case study of decentralized forest management in lowland Bolivia. Bolivia has undertaken important policy reforms since the mid-1990s aimed at institutionalizing popular participation and promoting democratic decentralization. In the forestry sector, municipal governments ha...
Pacheco, P.
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[What lies behind decentralisation?: forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia]
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What lies behind decentralisation?: forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia
Pacheco, P.
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[Desentralisasi pengelolaan hutan di Bolivia: siapa yang memperoleh manfaat dan mengapa]
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Desentralisasi pengelolaan hutan di Bolivia: siapa yang memperoleh manfaat dan mengapa
This book presents the results of the Bolivian case study on forestry decentralization. It is part of a larger CIFOR study also undertaken in Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, which investigates forestry decentralization processes and, in particular their effects on forest-dependent grou...
Pacheco, P.
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[Descentralizacion forestal en Bolivia: implicaciones en el gobierno de los recursos forestales y el bienestar de los grupos marginados]
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Descentralizacion forestal en Bolivia: implicaciones en el gobierno de los recursos forestales y el bienestar de los grupos marginados
Forestry decentralization offers new opportunities for participation in decision-making regarding natural resources and for greater local resource control. Yet previous research has found that decentralizations, at least in the way that they are implemented, may also have detrimental effects on f...
Larson, A.M.
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Pacheco, P.
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Toni, F.
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Vallejo Larios, M.
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[Exclusion e inclusion en la foresteria latinoamericana: hacia donde va la descentralizacion?]
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Exclusion e inclusion en la foresteria latinoamericana: hacia donde va la descentralizacion?
Jong, W. de
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Pacheco, P.
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[Integrating multiple environmental regimes: Land and forest policies under broader democratic reforms in the Bolivian tropical lowlands]
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Integrating multiple environmental regimes: Land and forest policies under broader democratic reforms in the Bolivian tropical lowlands