Rights of Access to Upland Forest Resources in Southwest China

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7478
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Menzies, Nicholas K.; Peluso, Nancy L.
Conference:	Designing Sustainability on the Commons, the First Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Durham, NC
Conf. Date:	September 27-30
Date:	1990
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7478
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	village organization households forests--policy IASC
Abstract:	"This paper looks at the ways in which changes in forest policy in China over the lst forty years have affected six villages in Songming County, Yunan Province. It emphasizes the importance of village and household research in understanding the ways which policies are implemented and their effects on patterns of development. Based on data gathering during an exercise in rural household surveys in Yunan, we suggest that an emphasis on controlling access to the resource may be less effective than providing incentives for communities to manage their resources, and that where incentives do exist, there is a real danger that bureaucratic procedures may stifle those incentives, a mounting to another set of controls."

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