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Community forestry
About: Community forestry is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4688 publications have been published within this topic receiving 89144 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of participation, spells out the gender equity and efficiency implications of such exclusions, and analyzes what underlies them, and outlines a conceptual framework to help analyze the process of gender exclusion and how it might be alleviated.
1,222 citations
01 Jan 2010
Abstract: Erkki Tomppo1, Matti Katila1, Kai Mäkisara1, Jouni Peräsaari1, Rogers Malimbwi2, Nurudin Chamuya3, Jared Otieno3, Søren Dalsgaard4, Mikko Leppänen5 1 Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland PO Box 18 (Jokiniemenkuja 1) FI-01301 Vantaa, Finland tel: +358 10 211 2170, fax: 358 10 211 2202 email erkki.tomppo@metla.fi 2 Sokoine University of Agriculture, the United Rebublic of Tanzania 3 Forest and Beekeeping Division of Ministry of Natural Resources, the United Rebublic of Tanzania 4 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Dar es Salaam 5 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
913 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of property rights in facilitating the implementation of decentralized decision-making in South Asia and provide answers to two questions: When do governments decentralize environmental decision making? and which types of property right must be devolved if decentralized decisio...
Abstract: National governments in almost all developing countries have begun to decentralize policies and decision making related to development, public services, and the environment. Existing research on the subject has enhanced our understanding of the effects of decentralization and thereby has been an effective instrument in the advocacy of decentralization. But most analyses, especially where environmental resources are concerned, have been less attentive to the political coalitions that prompt decentralization and the role of property rights in facilitating the implementation of decentralized decision making. By comparing decentralization in four cases in South Asia—Forest Councils in Kumaon in India, Joint Forest Management in India, the Parks and People Program in Nepal's Terai, and Community Forestry legislation in Nepal—this article provides answers to two questions: When do governments decentralize environmental decision making? and Which types of property rights must be devolved if decentralized decisio...
804 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term maintenance of forest cover in the tropics was assessed through a meta-analysis of published case-studies, which compared land use/cover change data for these two broad types of forest management and assess their performance in maintaining forest cover.
630 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between household characteristics and common property resources in order to assess whether poorer households are able to gain greater access to community forests as a result of institutional change.
599 citations