Attempts of Recentralization of Nepal’s Community Forestry

The prehistory of community forestry in India.

" Liberty and forest laws are incompatible, " remarked an English country vicar, speaking on behalf of villagers shut out of woodland reserved for the exclusive use of the king, in 1720. 1 The history of state forestry is indeed a history of social conflict. In monarchies and in democracies, in metropolitan Europe as well as in colonial South Asia, the state management of forests has met bitter...

CENTRALIZATION , Decentralization , Recentralization :

Abstract China’s educational leaders have long debated the pluses and minuses of decentralization of control and resources of China’s vast educational enterprise. During various periods of post-1949 China, the central authorities have devolved control to the provinces, key cities, and rural communes, only to recentralize later usually due to political reforms. In this chapter various stages of ...

Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry

The data not collected on community forestry

Conservation and development practitioners increasingly promote community forestry as a way to conserve ecosystem services, consolidate resource rights, and reduce poverty. However, outcomes of community forestry have been mixed; many initiatives failed to achieve intended objectives. There is a rich literature on institutional arrangements of community forestry, but there has been little effor...

Comparing Community Forestry in Canada and Mexico

Th e popularity of community-based natural resource management has grown both within British Columbia’s forests and around the world. It is oft en assumed that increased local control of resources will enable more ecologically sensitive forestry practices, but this is not necessarily the case. Th rough case study examples of “earlier” community forest models in British Columbia and Mexico, the ...