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Communities and Their Partners: Governance and Community-Based Forest Management

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dc.contributor.author Menzies, Nicholas K. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:53:51Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:53:51Z
dc.date.issued 2004 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-08-22 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2007-08-22 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2793
dc.description.abstract "A number of agencies closely associated with community-based forest management have recently commissioned reviews to assess the impacts of opening the arena for decision making and benefit sharing in forest management to a wider spectrum of players. This article draws on the findings of a set of reviews commissioned by the Ford Foundation and on an interactive process in which partners in activities supported by the Foundation had opportunities to respond to the conclusions drawn by the reviews. It analyses how governance is emerging as a central concern of all the partners involved in efforts to forge new relationships between government agencies, forest communities and intermediaries such as NGOs that work with them. All those involved in the process considered that the scientific bureaucratic model that has dominated forest management since the nineteenth century and earlier has reached an impasse marked by conflict between a spectrum of stakeholders, and by questions about the biological or ecological sustainability of current harvesting and production practises. Community-based forest management will not in itself resolve these tensions and conflicts, but it does have the potential to play an important role in sustainable natural resources management strategies if there is a realignment of relations between households, community and government. The reviews, therefore, call for more emphasis on crafting inclusive, equitable and accountable mechanisms to articulate and mediate relations between partners from the national and even international level to the local." en_US
dc.subject community forestry en_US
dc.subject sustainability en_US
dc.subject NGOs en_US
dc.subject stakeholders en_US
dc.subject governance and politics en_US
dc.subject CBRM en_US
dc.subject harvesting en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.title Communities and Their Partners: Governance and Community-Based Forest Management en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Conservation and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US
dc.submitter.email efcastle@indiana.edu en_US


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