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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Hayes, Tanya M.; Persha, Lauren |
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Conference:
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Workshop on the Workshop 4 |
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Location:
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Indiana University Bloomington |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-6, 2009 |
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Date:
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2009 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1090
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Sector:
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Forestry |
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Region:
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Africa
Central America & Caribbean |
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Subject(s):
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community forestry
institutional analysis
conservation
forest policy
co-management
property rights
forest management
Workshop
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Abstract:
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From Introduction:
"Over the past several decades, common-pool resource scholars and others have consistently cautioned against the use of blueprints or single solutions to sustainably govern all human-environment interactions. Despite such complexity, or perhaps as a consequence of it, there is an astounding uniformity to policy solutions for natural resource management in applied contexts. Designing and implementing sustainable forest management policies that address local contexts while providing a degree of programmatic uniformity is a daunting task for policymakers and program managers. Unfortunately, scholarship on resource management does not always address practical needs of policymakers.
"This paper uses a diagnostic approach proposed by Ostrom and colleagues to compare forest management institutions and related conservation outcomes on forest commons. We compare forest management case studies of public, co-management, and community property rights systems in Honduras, Nicaragua and Tanzania. The objectives of the paper are to glean commonalities regarding (1) how different institutional arrangements contribute to forest conservation; (2) the role external governmental and non-governmental agencies in providing financial and institutional support; and, (3) the overall robustness of particular institutional configurations given varied biophysical, socio-economic and political contexts. In our comparative analysis, we are not seeking to develop forest management blue prints. Instead, we are attempting to begin to develop a set of shared lessons that practitioners might draw on when considering how to design and implement forest management on shared forest lands."
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