edited by Oliver Springate-Baginski and Piers Blaikie.
Sterling, VA :
Earthscan,
2007.
xxii, 394 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
25 cm.
Earthscan forestry library
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting up key policy issues in participatory forest management / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski -- Annexation, struggle and response : forest, people and power in India and Nepal / Oliver Springate-Baginski & Piers Blaikie with Ajit Banerjee [and others] -- Understanding the policy process / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski -- Actors and their narratives in participatory forest management / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski with Ajit Banerjee [and others] -- Understanding the diversity of participatory forest management livelihood and poverty impacts / Oliver Springate-Baginski & Piers Blaikie -- Community forestry in the Nepal hills : practice and livelihood impacts / Om Prakash Dev & Jagannath Adhikari -- Participatory forest management in the Nepalese Tarai : policy, practice and impacts / Binod Bhatta [and others] -- Joint forest management in West Bengal / Ajit Banerjee -- Forests and livelihoods in Orissa / Kailas Sarap -- Participatory forest management in Andhra Pradesh / V. Ratna Reddy [and others] -- Comparative policy and impact issues / Oliver Springate-Baginski & Piers Blaikie with Ajit Banerjee [and others] -- Participation or democratic decentralization : strategic issues in local forest management / Piers Blaikie & Oliver Springate-Baginski.
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In recent decades participatory approaches to forest management have been introduced around the world. This book assesses their implementation in the highly politicized environments of India and Nepal. The authors critically examine the policy, implementation processes and causal factors affecting livelihood impacts. Considering narratives and field practice, with data from over 60 study villages and over 1000 household interviews, the book demonstrates why particular field outcomes have occurred and why policy reform often proves so difficult. Research findings on which the book is based are already influencing policy in India and Nepal, and the research and analysis have great relevance to forestry management in a wide range of countries.