Social Capital and Joint Forest Management: People, Forest Conservation and Participatory Development: Three Case Studies from Karnataka, India

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozmond Roshan D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Joint Forest Management

Attitudes and institutions: contrasting experiences of Joint Forest Management in India

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZAKIR HUSAIN ◽  
RABINDRA N. BHATTACHARYA
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Third World ◽  
The State ◽  
Collective Choice ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
State Management ◽  
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The growing disenchantment with state management of natural resources has led to increasing reliance on co-management. This involves devolution of the rights to manage and control access to the resource from the state to the resource appropriators. Co-management has been introduced in many Third World countries with varying success. Co-management programmes have typically assumed that the resource community wants to conserve the resource and is prevented from doing so by their inability to form a collective choice arena. Hence such programmes have attempted to provide a collective choice arena. However, these attempts overlook the need to change the attitudes of resource users and create a demand for the resource regime. In this paper we have presented two case studies of Joint Forest Management in India to illustrate this point.

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