Is participatory forest management (PFM) an asset or liability to local community households adjacent to Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Kenya?

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matiku Paul
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Participatory Forest Management

Participatory Forest Management in India: An overview and some emerging issues

Social Change ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 156-164
Author(s):  
V. K. Misra ◽  
S. N. Shabbeer
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Forest Patch ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Forest Users

Joint Forest Management (JFM) represents a radical departure from the tradition of centralised forest management in India. Forest Department (FD) all over the country has started to forge alliances with local communities to regenerate degraded forests adjoining villages. The strides it has made in less than a decade-with 20 states issuing JFM orders; large numbers of forest officers, NGOs and villagers experimenting with new approaches and relationships; and between four to five million hectares of degraded forests regenerating under local care are remarkable. The local community is given more formal access and usufruct rights over a forest patch which they regenerate by protection and plantation. Given its potential of restoring both the health of our forest and the self respect and dignity of impoverished forest users through assured access to forest resources for securer livelihoods, enthusiastic supporters of JFM have understandably tended to monitor positive impacts of achievements through studies and research. A set of studies were conducted during 1995-96 on self-initiated Community Forest Management (CFM) and Joint Forest Management (JFM) systems, with the aim to largely serve as the benchmark or baseline studies to gain a preliminary understanding. Juttadapalem, a small tribal village in the district of Vishakapatnam, A.P., is one of the sites where SPWD supported a research programme in collaboration with Andhra University, Vishakapatnam. The present paper discusses the findings of the sub-network on ecology and economics with Juttadapalem as a case study.

scholarly journals An Incomplete Information Static Game Evaluating Community-Based Forest Management in Zagros, Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Zandebasiri ◽  
José António Filipe ◽  
Javad Soosani ◽  
Mehdi Pourhashemi ◽  
Luca Salvati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Static Game ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Landscape Protection

The present study adopts a game theory approach analyzing land-use planning in Zagros forests, Iran. A Static Game of Incomplete Information (SGII) was applied to the evaluation of participatory forest management in the study area. This tool allows a complete assessment of sustainable forest planning producing two modeling scenarios based on (i) high and (ii) low social acceptance. According to the SGII results, the Nash Bayesian Equilibrium (NBE) strategy suggests the importance of landscape protection in forest management. The results of the NBE analytical strategy show that landscape protection with barbed wires is the most used strategy in local forest management. The response to the local community includes cooperation in conditions of high social acceptance and noncooperation in conditions of low social acceptance. Overall, social acceptance is an adaptive goal in forest management plans.

scholarly journals Management, Growth, and Carbon Storage in Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. J. Lupala ◽  
L. P. Lusambo ◽  
Y. M. Ngaga
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Support Function ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Miombo Woodlands ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
Woodland Products ◽  
Change Mitigation

Despite the local livelihoods support function provided by miombo woodlands of Tanzania under participatory forest management, its growth still has potential for carbon storage and sequestration attractive to REDD+ initiatives. This study has revealed the average growth to be significant, despite the local community livelihoods support function. However, climate change mitigation strategy needs to be more innovative to optimize carbon storage and local livelihoods’ potentials in forest-dependent communities like miombo woodlands. Carbon credits resulting from the increased carbon stock and sequestration should contribute to sustainable development. This should also help promote participatory forest management and secure miombo woodland products and services upon which billions of people depend.

Developing capacity of forest users through participatory forest management: Evidence from Madhupur Sal forest in Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khondokar H. Kabir ◽  
Andrea Knierim ◽  
Ataharul Chowdhury ◽  
Beatriz Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Sal Forest ◽  
Forest Users
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