This chapter describes the change in the institutional arrangements for property rights to the former collective forest lands and the sifts in oversight responsibility for these lands from central to regional and local governments. The data rely on national forest survey data and the authors' own...
Liu Dachang
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Edmunds, D.
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[Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China]
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Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China
This film was shot on location in Manokwari District, Papua with local villagers living below the poverty line who shared their views about how to develop forest management that works for forests and the poor. In a forest at the farthest edge of Indonesia, a dawn chorus is cut short by a roar of ...
Decentralization in natural resource management (NRM) is increasingly promoted as it is believed to offer better management. This study explores the positive and negative aspects of the forestry conflict that sometimes increases with decentralization. Drawing upon the results of a case study from...
Yasmi, Y.
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Guernier, J.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Positive and negative aspects of forestry conflict: lessons from a decentralized forest management in Indonesia]
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Positive and negative aspects of forestry conflict: lessons from a decentralized forest management in Indonesia
Engel, S.
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López, R.
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Palmer, C.
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[Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia]
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Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia
Gregorio, M. di
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Hagedorn, K.
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Kirk, M.
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Korf, B.
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McCarthy, N.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Swallow, B.M.
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Mwangi, E.
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Markelova, H.
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[Property rights and collective action for poverty reduction: a framework for analysis]
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Property rights and collective action for poverty reduction: a framework for analysis
For close to two decades Maasai herders in Southwestern Kenyan have been struggling to subdivide their collectively held group ranches into individually owned and titled parcels. Scholars have indicated that conflicts over property assignment are resolved where more powerful individuals can eithe...
Mery, G.
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Alfaro, R.I.
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Kanninen, M.
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Lobovikov, M.
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[Forests in the global balance - changing paradigms]
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Forests in the global balance - changing paradigms
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
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[Annual report 2014: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets]
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Annual report 2014: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets
To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia examines how these two types of in...
Mwangi, E.
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Markelova, H.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: insights from Africa and Asia]
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: insights from Africa and Asia
Mogoi, J
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Obonyo, E
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Ongugo, P
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Oeba, V
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Mwangi, E.
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[Communities, property rights and forest decentralisation in Kenya: early lessons from participatory forestry management]
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Communities, property rights and forest decentralisation in Kenya: early lessons from participatory forestry management