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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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De Zoysa, M.; Saubhagya, L.; Inoue, M. |
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Conference:
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Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge, the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Mt. Fuji, Japan |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-7 |
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Date:
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2013 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8868
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Sector:
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Forestry |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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community forestry
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Abstract:
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"Community forestry has become a complex governance regime due to range of actors involved, scale of resources mobilized, diversity of processes involving conflicts and collaboration, and policy and practical issues encountered. The government of Sri Lanka has lunched various community forestry programs to minimize the impacts of forest depletion on the livelihood of local communities and the natural environment. The paper therefore reviews the literature and discusses the community based forest management and forest governance of Sri Lanka in terms of: formal recognition, devolution of authority and setting prototype design. The importance of forest governance in government legislation has been accepted to promote community forest management mainly by legal frameworks that secure private, community-based land tenure. The community participation regulate forest resource use in order to avoid formal constrains they face in national laws and regulations with regards to what resources they can legally access and use. Success of community forest managements vary with the strength of the local arrangements for compliance monitoring the implementation of the community governance processes with accountability. Forest Department with limited human and other resources and lack of community support has recognized the requirement of extensive institutional reform and capacity building for conflict resolution and to promote forest governance. Viable and competitive rural forest-based enterprises have formed small self-help groups and introduced alternative livelihoods initiatives and enhanced skills and capacities of local communities in resource governance and administration. In order to effectively benefit the local community groups, they must actively pursue opportunities that become available creating 'graduated membership' and recognize 'core members' of common pool resources under prototype design. Recognize the commitment to forest use and management under the 'commitment principle' as well as 'fair distribution of benefits' are most critical factors in the success of forest governance and community-based forest management."
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