Achieving effective conservation in the tropics is a global concern but implicates local people. Despite considerable rhetoric about local participation the vast majority of conservation initiatives continue to be devised and controlled by a small group of powerful, external voices. What is widel...
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.
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Singh, N.M.
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Sundar, N.
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Boghal, R.K.
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[Devolution as a threat to democratic-decision making in forestry?: findings from three states in India]
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Devolution as a threat to democratic-decision making in forestry?: findings from three states in India
Accommodating multiple interests involves integrating across-highly stratified societies. Integral local development is a means of integrating across these interests through locally accountable representative authorities entrusted with public powers. It is integral to the local community because ...
Ribot, J.C.
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[Integral local development: 'accommodating multiple interests' through entrustment and accountable representation]
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Integral local development: 'accommodating multiple interests' through entrustment and accountable representation
This report presents the results of research on forest management decentralization and local governance conduted in Southern Cameroon in 2003 and 2004. The forest sector provides insights into the decentralization process writ large, since, as a source of national wealth, "green gold". The study ...
Oyono, P.R.
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Ribot, J.C.
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Larson, A.M.
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[Green and black gold in rural Cameroon: natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability]
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Green and black gold in rural Cameroon: natural resources for local governance, justice and sustainability
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Moeliono, M.
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Limberg, G.
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[Between State and society: Decentralization in Indonesia]
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Between State and society: Decentralization in Indonesia
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
Larson, A.M.
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Ribot, J.C.
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[Democratic decentralisation through a natural resources lens: an introduction]
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Democratic decentralisation through a natural resources lens: an introduction
This study examines challenges associated with early stages of decentralizing the administration and management of forest resources in the Centre-West Region of Burkina Faso. It is based on fi eldwork using rapid rural appraisal, focus group discussions and interviews with key stakeholders, metho...
Bouda, H.
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Savadogo, P.
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Tiveau, D.
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Ouédraogo, B.
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[State, forest and community: challenges of democratically decentralizing forest management in the Centre-West Region of Burkina Faso]
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State, forest and community: challenges of democratically decentralizing forest management in the Centre-West Region of Burkina Faso