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Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasize internal dynamics. We show how scenario methods can be used to 1) enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholder...


Wollenberg, Eva K.Edmunds, D.Buck, L.[Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting]Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting

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.Edmunds, D.Anderson, J.[Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management]Accommodating multiple interests in local forest management

This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: i. appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations at the grass roots level despite state seizure of forests ii. state-driven devolution where government polici...


Sarin, M.Singh, N.M.Sundar, N.Boghal, R.K.[Devolution as a threat to democratic-decision making in forestry?: findings from three states in India]Devolution as a threat to democratic-decision making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

This paper explores the challenge of defining the scope of a systems model, emphasising three aspects: boundary, granularity and conceptual scope. The significance of these is illustrated by reference to a model of land-use decisions made in villages bordering on the Mafungautsi forest in zimbabw...


Haggith, M.Prabhu, R.Mudavanhu, H.Matose, F.Mutimukuru, T.Nyirenda, R.Standa-Gunda, W.[The challenge of effective model scoping: a FLORES case study from the Mafungausti forest margins, Zimbabwe]The challenge of effective model scoping: a FLORES case study from the Mafungausti forest margins, Zimbabwe

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.Wollenberg, Eva K.[Whose devolution is it anyway? divergent constructs, interests and capacities between the poorest forest users and states]Whose devolution is it anyway? divergent constructs, interests and capacities between the poorest forest users and states

People have tastes in landscapes. This paper provides examples of different groups’ with lanscape tastes. It discusses, for instance, the Javanese preference for symmetry vis-à-vis the dayak’s appreciation of wildness, the ecologists’ enjoyment of natural chaos compared to the plantation speciali...


Colfer, C.J.P.[Tastes in landscapes]Tastes in landscapes

A qualitative soft system model is proposed in this paper to address the inherent complecity of community-based resource management. The model follows the principles of participatory management where local stakeholders are fully engaged in different phases and stages of planning and decision maki...


Purnomo, H.Mendoza, G.A.Prabhu, R.[Model for collaborative planning of community-managed resources based on qualitative soft systems approach]Model for collaborative planning of community-managed resources based on qualitative soft systems approach

This paper describes the experience of CIFOR research team in facilitating local communities to manage their natural resources in Malinau District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia during the Otonomi Daerah reform period (1998-present). The case examines how the CIFOR team used informal, shared learnin...


Wollenberg, Eva K.Iwan, R.Limberg, G.Moeliono, M.Rhee, S.Sudana, M.[Muddling towards cooperation: a CIFOR case study of shared learning in Malinau district, Indonesia]Muddling towards cooperation: a CIFOR case study of shared learning in Malinau district, Indonesia

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