A review of the role of property rights and forest policies in the management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh

Roy, Anjan Kumer Dev; Alam, Khorshed; Gow, Jeff

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.08.009

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“…A plethora of collective action studies have investigated patterns of property rights and institutions of collective action for irrigation systems (Fujiie et al 2005;Totin et al 2014), fisheries (Schlager 1994;Kanchanaroek et al 2013) and forests (Agrawal and Ostrom 2001;Roy et al 2012). Such institutional analysis has usually focused on common-pool resources (CPRs) which are held by the community, i.e.…”

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Resource asymmetry and property rights in agricultural drainage systems: Implications for collective action

Ranjan

Koontz

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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Scholarly work on examining how property rights affect incentives for collective action in common-pool resource management has benefited immensely from the property-rights analytical scheme proposed in the seminal work of Schlager and Ostrom (1992). Here we apply this scheme to agricultural drainage systems, conceptualizing them as a common-pool resource held in a private property ownership regime and exhibiting asymmetric dilemmas. We propose a property rights analytical scheme to suit the asymmetry of incentives in drainage systems, while examining how drainage management institutions allocate bundles of property rights and how property rights interact to affect incentives for collective action. Unlike Schlager and Ostrom (1992), we find that property rights are not cumulatively bundled, and that having land held in private decouples use rights from physical access rights. In addition, the existence of complementary institutional mechanisms, one landowner-driven and the other governmentdriven, can provide collective action incentives.

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Resource asymmetry and property rights in agricultural drainage systems: Implications for collective action

Ranjan

Koontz

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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“…This rapid deterioration in the SMF is due directly or indirectly to two main factors. First, is its unsustainable exploitation by large forest dependent communities (FDCs) and second, the inefficient, top-down management of the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) under a system of state property rights (Roy, Alam, and Gow 2012).…”

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Attitudes towards current and alternative management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh to achieve sustainability

Roy

Gow

2013

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper examines the challenges of achieving sustainable management of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans (SMF) in Bangladesh. During the past two decades, conflicts between mangrove maintenance and the pressure to provide economic livelihoods to forest-dependent communities (FDCs) have emerged and persisted. The SMF is currently managed by the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) under a state property rights regime. This study explores an alternative property rights regime which includes participatory approaches and co-management with FDCs to achieve sustainability, both economically and environmentally. Focus group discussions and a survey were the methods used to assess the prospects. The study finds that the absence of a management partnership between the BFD and FDCs is mainly responsible for the policy failures to achieve sustainable management of the SMF. However, evidence is presented that a 'co-management' property rights regime cannot be established until FDC capacity is enhanced through the formation of community level institutions.

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“…The government of Bangladesh declared it as World Heritage Site in 1999 followed by UNESCO's declaration. Anthropogenic pressure from depending communities is causing gradual resource reduction (Roy et al, 2012;Roy, 2009a) In spite of continued degradation, this forest contributes 3% to the country's gross domestic product (Khan et al, 2008) against 5% contribution of the whole forestry sector (MOEF, 2005).…”

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Participatory Forest Management for the Sustainable Management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest

Roy

Alam

2012

American Journal of Environmental Sciences

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People's participation in forest management has become successful in many countries of the world. The Sundarbans is the single largest mangrove forest in the world, bearing numerous values and holding importance from economic, social and ecological perspectives. It is the direct and indirect sources of the livelihood of 3.5 million people. As a reserve forest, government is always providing extra care through state monopolies for its management with the introduction of policies and guidelines. Bangladesh, being the signatory of a number of international conventions and treaties, is committed to preserve its resources. In spite of all these initiatives, its resources including biodiversity have been losing gradually over the last few decades. Thus, sole management by the Forest Department has raised the question of its sustainability. The need for a critical analysis of the options of present management structure and the involvement of local people and their power-sharing to reduce degradation is inevitable. In this study, we examine the prevailing management crisis of the state machinery of forest bureaucracy and forwarded the argument for community involvement through community-based forest management for sustainable use of its resources.

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A review of the role of property rights and forest policies in the management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Resource asymmetry and property rights in agricultural drainage systems: Implications for collective action

Resource asymmetry and property rights in agricultural drainage systems: Implications for collective action

Attitudes towards current and alternative management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh to achieve sustainability

Participatory Forest Management for the Sustainable Management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest

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