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China's Forests
Author | : William F. Hyde |
Publisher | : Resources for the Future |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781891853678 |
Policy reform in China's Forestry. Devolution as a means of expanding local forest management in South China: lessons from the past 20 years. Taxes and fees in the Southern collective forest region. Central characteristics of reform: measures of the effects of improved property rights, a stable policy environment, and environmental protection. Policy reform and investment in forestry. Forest exploitation and protection in reform China: assessing the impacts of policy and economic growth. Deforestation and reforestation in Hainan: roles of markets and Institutions. Forestry, poverty, and rural development: perspectives form the bamboo subsector. Impacts of policy reforms on forest environments and biodiversity.
Lessons from Forest Decentralization
Author | : Carol Colfer Pierce J |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1136562311 |
The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of Asia-Pacific countries described in this book presents rich and varied experience with decentralization and provides important lessons for other regions. Beginning with historical and geographical overview chapters, the book proceeds to more in-depth coverage of the region's countries. Research findings stress rights, roles and responsibilities on the one hand, and organization, capacity-building, infrastructure and legal aspects on the other. With these overarching themes in mind, the authors take on many controversial topics and address practical challenges related to financing and reinvestment in sustainable forest management under decentralized governance. Particular efforts have been made to examine decentralization scales from the local to the national, and to address gender issues. The result is a unique examination of decentralization issues in forestry with clear lessons for policy, social equity, forest management, research, development and conservation in forested areas across the globe from the tropics to temperate regions. Published with CIFOR
Local Forest Management
Author | : David Edmunds |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World
Author | : Laura Anne German |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1136545514 |
Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of decentralization and its outcomes - most of which suggest an underperformance of governance reforms - and explores the viability of different governance instruments in the context of weak governance and expanding commercial pressures over forests. Findings are grouped into two thematic areas: decentralization, livelihoods and sustainable forest management; and international trade, finance and forest sector governance reforms. The authors examine diverse forces shaping the forest sector, including the theory and practice of decentralization, usurpation of authority, corruption and illegality, inequitable patterns of benefits capture and expansion of international trade in timber and carbon credits, and discuss related outcomes on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. The book builds on earlier volumes exploring different dimensions of decentralization and perspectives from other world regions, and distills dimensions of forest governance that are both unique to Africa and representative of broader global patterns. The authors ground their analysis in relevant theory while drawing out implications of their findings for policy and practice.
Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa
Author | : Randall Bluffstone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1317591607 |
Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of devolution vary by country, all have potentially important implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services, livelihoods and climate change. This book helps students, researchers and professionals to understand the importance and implications of these reforms for local environmental quality, climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more successful than top-down management of common pool forest resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered. The work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda. Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces today.
Local Forest Management
Author | : David Stuart Edmunds |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1849771855 |
'A well written book, astutely organized.' Development and Change Local Forest Management is built around careful and illuminating case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests in several Asian countries. The studies demonstrate that devolution policies - contrary to the claims of governments - actually increased governmental control over the management of local resources and did so at lower cost. The controversial findings show that if local forest users are to exercise genuine control over forest management, they must be better represented in the processes of forming, implementing and evaluating devolution policies. In addition, the guiding principle for policy discussions should be to create sustainable livelihoods for local resource users, especially the poorest among them, rather than reducing the cost of government forest administration. This book is essential reading for forest and other natural resource managers, policy makers, development economists and forestry professionals and researchers.
Evaluating the Impact of Land Tenure and Titling on Access to Credit in Uganda
Author | : Carly K. Petracco, John Pender |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
"The theorized impact of land tenure and titling on access to credit has produced mixed results in the empirical literature. Land tenure and titling is hypothesized to increase access to credit because of the enhanced land security provided and the newfound ability to use land as collateral. Using land as collateral and obtaining access to credit are paramount concerns in Uganda and in all of Africa, as greater emphasis is placed on the need to modernize the agricultural system. This paper uses a new approach in evaluating whether land tenure and titling have an impact on access to credit for rural households in Uganda. The new approach includes comparisons across four categories: (1) households who have customary land with versus without a customary certificate, (2) households who have freehold land with versus without a title, (3) households with a title or certificate having freehold versus customary tenure, and (4) households without a title or certificate having freehold versus customary tenure. Each comparison is then evaluated for the impact on access to any form of credit, formal credit, and informal credit. This analysis allows for an in-depth look into which element, tenure or title, is impacting access to credit and to which type of credit, formal or informal. To conduct this analysis, matching techniques are used, including propensity score matching and the Abadie and Imbens matching method. These two methods contain both strengths and weaknesses that allow the results to support to one another. The only significant finding of the matching was a positive impact on access to credit of freehold without title over customary without certificate. Results imply that tenure, not title, impacts credit access for rural households in Uganda."--Authors' abstract.
Promise, Trust and Evolution
Author | : Rucha Ghate |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008-01-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0191526746 |
From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia. Developed countries, have managed to establish well-defined property rights over numerous resources and in some instances extended non-exclusionary rights over privately owned resources over an extended period of time. In the developing world, however, the share of community property is extensive, either as a response to an expanding market or because the exposure to markets in still in its nascent stage. This coupled with the demands of globalization, has led to the co-existence of both community ownership of resources as well as an evolving private property rights market. This tension between public versus private ownership rights is particularly relevant in the developing countries of South Asia, not only because of its shared history but also because of its resources frequently cross national boundaries. This book tells the story of CPRs and the commons in a rapidly changing South Asia. Including contributions from those working with natural resources in Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, the papers discuss issues such as equity in distribution; efficiency and productivity of resources; sustainability of resources; and institutional transition and governance.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics
Author | : Jeannie Sowers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 873 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0197515037 |
'The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics' explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability. The chapters delve into more traditional forms of comparative environmental politics (CEP) - the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains - while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities.