| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages) : illustrations |
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Earthscan forestry library |
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Earthscan forestry library.
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| Contents |
Setting up key policy issues in participatory forest management / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski -- Annexation, struggle and response : forest, people and power in India and Nepal / Oliver Springate-Baginski & Piers Blaikie with Ajit Banerjee [and others] -- Understanding the policy process / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski -- Actors and their narratives in participatory forest management / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski with Ajit Banerjee [and others] -- Understanding the diversity of participatory forest management livelihood and poverty impacts / Oliver Springate-Baginski & Piers Blaikie -- Community forestry in the Nepal hills : practice and livelihood impacts / Om Prakash Dev & Jagannath Adhikari -- Participatory forest management in the Nepalese Tarai : policy, practice and impacts / Binod Bhatta [and others] -- Joint forest management in West Bengal / Ajit Banerjee -- Forests and livelihoods in Orissa / Kailas Sarap -- Participatory forest management in Andhra Pradesh / V. Ratna Reddy [and others] -- Comparative policy and impact issues / Oliver Springate-Baginski & Piers Blaikie with Ajit Banerjee [and others] -- Participation or democratic decentralization : strategic issues in local forest management / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski |
| Summary |
With tens of millions of hectares and hundreds of millions of lives in the balance the debate over who should control South Asias forests is of tremendous political significance. This book provides an insightful and thorough assessment of important forest management transitions currently underway. MARK POFFENBERGER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY INTERNATIONAL The contributions in this volume not only breathe life into the fi eld of writing and analysis related to forests they do so on the strength of extraordinarily insightful research. Kudos to Springate-Baginski and Blaikie for |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Forest policy -- India
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Forest policy -- Nepal
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Forest management -- India -- Citizen participation
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Forest management -- Nepal -- Citizen participation
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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Forest management -- Citizen participation
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Forest policy
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India
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Nepal
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Springate-Baginski, Oliver.
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Blaikie, Piers M
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| ISBN |
9781849771399 |
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1849771391 |
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