Prospect of People's Participatory Forestry in India: A Case Study of Van Panchayat in Himalaya

Abstract

"This study targets the VP system and examines forest management via the question: To what extent have local institutions successfully achieved sustainable forest management? The intention of this study was to clarify actual forest management and utilization, as well as to analyze the perceptions within forestry in relation to the Management Committee (MC), which is responsible for VP and other members of VP and the FD (Forest Department)."