How are forestry decentralisations evolving in Latin America? What role are municipal governments playing, and to what extent are the needs of forest-dependent peoples being taken into account? This article represents a synthesis of research findings from Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras and ...
Larson, A.M.
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Pacheco, P.
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Toni, F.
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Vallejo, M.
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[Trends in Latin American forestry decentralisations: legal frameworks, municipal governments and forest dependent groups]
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Trends in Latin American forestry decentralisations: legal frameworks, municipal governments and forest dependent groups
Since the end of the 1990s, municipal governments are increasingly adopting a pro-environment/pro-forest discourse in Amazonia. In most cases, a strengthening of the local administrative and technical agencies that deal with environment, forest, and land use follows this change in the discourse. ...
Toni, F.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[O papel dos municipios na gestao florestal: licoes dos estudos de caso]
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O papel dos municipios na gestao florestal: licoes dos estudos de caso
In this chapter, the authors discuss the history of decentralization in Brazil, analyze the institutional and legal characteristics of the Brazilian political system concerning decentralization and build a theoretical framework for the case studies. Brazil has experienced cycles of centralization...
Toni, F.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[Municipios e gestao florestal na Amazonia: introducao e marco teorico]
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Municipios e gestao florestal na Amazonia: introducao e marco teorico
The book analyzes the evolution of decentralization of natural resource management in the Brazilian Amazon using a comparative approach. It is a collection of eight case studies: the municipalities of Mâncio Lima and Xapuri, in the State of Acre, and Altamira, Moju, Paragominas, Porto de Moz, San...