China's forest tenure reform and institutional change at a crossroads

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Liu ◽  
Runsheng Yin ◽  
Hua Li
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure

scholarly journals Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiayun Dong ◽  
Wenyuan Liang ◽  
Yimin Fu ◽  
Weiping Liu ◽  
Shunsuke Managi
Keyword(s):  
Credit Access ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure

scholarly journals Forest tenure reform implementation in Uganda: Current challenges and future opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nsita S.A. ◽  
Nakangu B. ◽  
Banana A.Y. ◽  
Mshale B. ◽  
Mwangi E. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Reform Implementation ◽  
Forest Tenure

scholarly journals Analysis on the Willingness of Peasant Households for Forestland Use Right Transfer in the Background of Collective Forest Tenure Reform: A Case Study in Guangyuan City in Sichuan Province

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Minfeng Tang ◽  
Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Collective Forest Tenure Reform

<p>The objective of this study is to get a better understanding and accurate information regarding factors affecting the forestland transfer, providing first-hand information, and proposing policy implications. The forestland use transfer is the main content in the collective forest tenure reform in China at present. Individual household, as a basic unit of forest production, should be the major participant in the forestland transfer. Using survey data of 329 rural household in 18 villages of three counties, this paper analyzes influencing factors on rural householders’ willingness to partake in forestland use right transfer by employing Binary Logit Regression. Nineteen variables, which were identified as characteristics of householders and households, natural endowment of forestland resources and householders’s awareness of forestland policy. Results indicate that householders’ awareness of pertinent policies and population of the household demonstrate significantly positive effects, while forestland area owned by individual household shows a markedly negative effect on peasants’ willingness to participate in forestland transfer. Some policy implications are discussed in this paper.</p>

scholarly journals Collaborative Forest Management in Nepal: Tenure, Governance and Contestations

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindhu P. Dhungana ◽  
Poshendra Satyal ◽  
Nagendra P. Yadav ◽  
Bhola Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
History Of ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Financial Arrangements

 Collaborative forest management (CFM) is a ‘community-based’ forest tenure regime that works in partnership between the central government, local government and local forest user groups in Nepal’s Terai, particularly in the management of large, contiguous forests. It has been in practice since the early 2000s in the form of ‘pilot initiatives’ and is gradually receiving greater legal attention. Through our own experiences, available literature and review of policies, we document the evolutionary history of Terai forest and CFM’s current issues. We found that the management aspects of Terai forests have been weak throughout its history. We also found a number of issues and challenges in the implementation of CFM. Some of the prominent issues include ambiguity in tenure rights and security, lack of appropriate and uncontested policy provisions for cost and benefit sharing among collaborators, limited decision-making space for forest-managing communities and local governments, and limited capacity of collaborators for the productive management of forests. We suggest tenure reform in terms of legal, institutional, technical and financial arrangements, so as to make CFM an effective forest management model in the Terai.

scholarly journals Collective Action Dilemma after China’s Forest Tenure Reform: Operationalizing Forest Devolution in a Rapidly Changing Society

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Yiwen ◽  
Shashi Kant ◽  
Hexing Long
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Market Risks ◽  
Forest Income ◽  
Forest Tenure

Devolution is a promising tool to enhance forest management. The literature has discussed many factors that affect the outcomes of forest devolution policies; however, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of exogenous socio-economic changes. Using the longitudinal case study method, we focus on how socio-economic changes affect the effectiveness of forest devolution policies using a case from Southeast China. We find that in this case, although forest devolution succeeded in granting farmers sufficient forest rights, it failed to incentivize farmers to contribute to managing forests because of the dramatic changes in socio-economic contexts. Economic development and outmigration reduced farmers’ dependence on forest income, elevated the costs of silvicultural operations, and posed market risks, thereby reducing farmers’ enthusiasm about managing forests; outmigration also weakened community leadership and impeded the collective action of making forest investments. Eventually, socio-economic changes compromised the positive stimulus caused by forest devolution and contributed to the collective action dilemma of managing forests after the reform. We argue that operationalizing forest devolution in developing countries needs to consider the exogenous socio-economic changes that may enhance or counteract the effects of devolution policies, and that more autonomy should be granted to communities to make policies adaptative to their local socio-economic dynamics.

Farmers’ Changing Awareness of Environmental Protection in the Forest Tenure Reform in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Weiming Song ◽  
Ernst August Nuppenau
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure
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