Shadow prices and input-oriented production efficiency analysis of the village-level production units of joint forest management (JFM) in India

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 799-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Misra ◽  
Shashi Kant
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
Shadow Prices ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Village Level ◽  
The Village ◽  
Level Production

scholarly journals Focusing on Forest Administration Systems in Analyzing Joint Forest Management: A Case Study of PHBM in Java, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiko Ota
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Village Level

The present study analyzes PHBM (Pengelolaan Sumberdaya Hutan Bersama Masyarakat), a joint forest management mechanism implemented by the State Forest Corporation (SFC) and village-level committees (LMDHs) in Java, Indonesia, in terms of forest administration systems. SFC had maintained conventional organizational structures and staffing systems, and frontline foresters mostly focused on their conventional tasks, including patrolling and policing, and were not structurally functioning as the interface of or facilitators for PHBM. SFC appears to have separated existing forestry operations and PHBM matters. As a result, PHBM matters such as the use of benefit sharing inside villages were simply entrusted to executive members of LMDHs with room for elite capture. A whole-organizational approach, in which general frontline foresters’ tasks are more integrated into participatory approach, would be recommended.

scholarly journals REDD+ policy translation and storylines in Laos

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 436-455
Author(s):  
Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen ◽  
Iben Nathan
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Donor Funding ◽  
Village Level ◽  
Policy Translation ◽  
The Village ◽  
Civic Environmentalism

This article examines the (re)production of discourses and storylines in the process of policy translation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in Laos. Applying the concepts of policy discourses and policy translation, we first identify the prominent storylines at the various governance levels in Laos. Second, we compare and contrast these storylines with the global REDD+ discourses. Further, we discuss how different actors' capacities and political agendas shape REDD+ storylines at different levels of governance. We find that national and sub-national storylines portray REDD+ mainly as a tool for supporting Laos' forestry strategy and sustainable forest management; for capacity-building and donor funding; and for village forest management and education of villagers. At the village level, many see REDD+ as a project for various political elites and external actors to control forests and cheat villagers. We conclude that, while globally there is increasing attention to civic-environmentalism in REDD+, neoliberalist and techno-managerial discourses still dominate. At the village level, however, civic-environmentalist ideas, such as social safeguards, benefit sharing, and equity largely disappear and two opposing discourses emerge representing anti-civic ideas and REDD+ resentment.  Furthermore, while techno-managerial ideas permeate all levels in Laos, neoliberalist ideas in terms of carbon trading are almost absent. During policy translation, REDD+ thus transforms into "just another" top-down development project. This serves the interest of Laos's techno-managerial elite well, but has little positive prospect for local people and forests. In this perspective, the lack of alternative discourse-coalitions promoting non-carbon benefits, social safeguards, and equity is striking.Key Words: REDD+, Laos, policy translation, environmental discourses, neoliberalism, civic environmentalism 

Global Governance in the “Anthropocene”

2018 ◽  
pp. 466-478
Author(s):  
Frank Biermann
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Planetary Evolution ◽  
Village Level ◽  
International Political Theory ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Village

The concept of an Anthropocene is now widely used in a variety of contexts, communities, and connotations. This chapter explores the possible consequences of this paradigmatic turn for the field of International Political Theory (IPT), arguing that the notion of an Anthropocene is likely to change the way we understand political systems both analytically and normatively, from the village level up to the United Nations. This makes the Anthropocene one of the most demanding, and most interesting, research topics for the field of IPT. The chapter first lays out the manifold new challenges for IPT that have been brought about by the concept of the Anthropocene, and then illustrates these challenges with an example: the increasing need of governments to define and agree upon “desirable” futures for planetary evolution.

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