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This study presents an approach to analyzing decentralized forestry and natural resource management and land property rights issues, and catalyzing collective action among villages and district governments. It focuses on understanding the current policies governing local people’s access to proper...


Komarudin, H.Siagian, Y.Colfer, C.J.P.[Collective action for the poor: a case study in Jambi province, Indonesia]Collective action for the poor: a case study in Jambi province, Indonesia

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 ...


Larson, A.M.Soto, F.[Decentralization of natural resource governance regimes]Decentralization of natural resource governance regimes

As people living near forests in many parts of the world receive recognition of resource management rights, questions arise about where forest boundaries should be set and who should legitimately receive these rights. Drawing on research conducted among forest-dwelling Kenyah communities in Kalim...


Wollenberg, Eva K.[Boundary keeping and access to gaharu among Kenyah forest users]Boundary keeping and access to gaharu among Kenyah forest users
Katerere, Y.Mohamed-Katerere, J.C.[From poverty to prosperity: harnessing the wealth of Africa's forests]From poverty to prosperity: harnessing the wealth of Africa's forests
Autor: Oyono, P.R.

When Germans colonized Cameroon in the nineteenth century, most of the ethnic groups living in the forest zone had already established territories. However, Germany then became the legal owner of land and forests. This brutal cohabitation of the new version of the state and customary systems of t...


Oyono, P.R.[The foundations of the conflit de langage over land and forest in southern Cameroon]The foundations of the conflit de langage over land and forest in southern Cameroon
Autor: Diaw, C.

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.[Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies]Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies

Forest exploitation has been the main economic driver in the northern Bolivian Amazon. The country enacted changes in legislation and policies affecting natural resource governance. These changes increase the control of the forestry sector by rural communities. Conflicts characterize these change...


Jong, W. deRuiz, S.Becker, M.[Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia]Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia
Engel, S.Palmer, C.[Who owns the right? The determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia]Who owns the right? The determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia

Property rights theory has contributed a great deal to global understanding of the factors shaping the management, governance and sustainability of discrete property regimes (individual, State, commons). Yet as the commons become increasingly altered and enclosed and management challenges extend ...


German, L.Keeler, A.[Hybrid institutions: applications of common property theory beyond discrete property regimes]Hybrid institutions: applications of common property theory beyond discrete property regimes

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