Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies

ISBN-13: 9781844070220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 224 str.

David Edmunds; Eva Wollenberg

Opis

Presents case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests in several Asian countries. This book demonstrates that devolution policies increased governmental control over the management of local resources and did so at lower cost. It is useful to forest and other natural resource managers.

Spis treści

Foreword by M S Swaminathan * Preface * Glossary of Local Terms * Introduction * The Promises and Limitations of Devolution and Local Forest Management in China * Devolution as a Threat to Democratic Decision-making in Forestry? Findings from Three States in India * Creating Space for Local Forest Management: The Case of the Philippines * Whose Devolution is it Anyway? Divergent Constructs, Interests and Capacities Between the Poorest Forest Users and States * Conclusion * Notes * References * Index

O autorze

David Edmunds and Eva Wollenberg are Research Fellows at the Centre for International Forest Research [CIFOR] in Indonesia.