Governing Nepal's Forests: The Peasant's Dilemma. Consequences of Central Regulation

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Varughese, George
Conference:	Mini-Conference of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Location:	Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Conf. Date:	December 14-16, 1991
Date:	1991
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1642
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	forest management panchayats privatization Workshop
Abstract:	"This paper discusses the 'management' of common-pool resources in Nepal, with particular reference to forest resources and forest products. The emphasis will be on describing some of the consequences that emerged as a result of the government's 'corrective' intervention in the form of nationalization of forests and subsequent legislations . I shall try to show how the political structure of the state of Nepal manifested by a centrally regulated top-down approach to policy-making disrupted the forest resource, its management, and its relationship to the people most dependent on it for survival--the peasants."

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