This chapter reviews the literature on natural resource decentralization with an emphasis on forests in developing countries. This literature can be located at the intersection between discussions of good governance and democracy, development, and poverty alleviation, on the one hand, and common ...
This chapter examines China’s experiment on devolution policies for local forest management. These policies included the transfer of forest management from collectives to households, the involvement of villagers in the management of state forests, and the shift of some decision-making authority i...
Liu Dachang
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Edmunds, D.
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[The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China]
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The promises and limitations of devolution and local forest management in China
The particular characteristics of natural resources make the decentralisation of their management to elected local governments even more complex than the decentralisation of services and infrastructure. Nevertheless, natural resources are equally importnat to rural development concerns in the Thi...
Larson, A.M.
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[Decentralisation and forest management in Latin America: towards a working model]
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Decentralisation and forest management in Latin America: towards a working model
Gunawan, H.
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[Desentralisasi: ancaman dan harapan bagi masyarakat adat - studi kasus masyarakat adat Cerekang di Kabupaten Luwu Timur, propinsi Sulawesi Selatan]
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Desentralisasi: ancaman dan harapan bagi masyarakat adat - studi kasus masyarakat adat Cerekang di Kabupaten Luwu Timur, propinsi Sulawesi Selatan
Angi, E.M.
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[Bagaimana kebijakan dapat dikoordinasikan antara pusat, daerah dan masyarakat?]
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Bagaimana kebijakan dapat dikoordinasikan antara pusat, daerah dan masyarakat?
Cuatomary tenure, mingled with state law and occasional private titling, continue predominantly to govern African rural and forest lands. This is in spite of evolutionist theories that predicted its demise and colonial and post-colonial policies that tried actively to accelerate it. The chapter d...
Diaw, C.
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[Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies]
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies
The brief describes development planning consultations, locally known as musrenbang, conducted in stages through different levels of governance: village, sub-district and district. The brief then documents lessons from experience catalyzing collective action among local community goups (in partic...
Syamsuddin
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Neldysavrino
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Komarudin, H.
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Siagian, Y.
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[Sudahkah aspirasi masyarakat terakomodir dalam rencana pembangunan?: pelajaran dari sebuah aksi kolektif di Jambi]
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Sudahkah aspirasi masyarakat terakomodir dalam rencana pembangunan?: pelajaran dari sebuah aksi kolektif di Jambi
The manual reflects the results of a 3-year participatory learning process that comprised many meetings, workshops, village case studies, a baseline survey of 20 poor villages, two monitoring trials in another 20 villages, and a full monitoring survey of all 223 villages in Kutai Barat. The princ...
Cahyat, A.
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Gonner, C.
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Haug, M.
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[Assessing household poverty and wellbeing: a manual with examples from Kutai Barat, Indonesia]
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Assessing household poverty and wellbeing: a manual with examples from Kutai Barat, Indonesia
Utomo, N.A.
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Ngakan, P.O.
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Dermawan, A.
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[Anggaran berbasis kinerja: tantangannya menuju tata kelola kehutanan yang baik]
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Anggaran berbasis kinerja: tantangannya menuju tata kelola kehutanan yang baik
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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[Municipalidades y participation local en la gestion forestal en Bolivia]
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Municipalidades y participation local en la gestion forestal en Bolivia