Comparing community forestry actors in Cameroon, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal and Germany

Schusser, Carsten; Krott, Max; Movuh, Mbolo C. Yufanyi; Logmani, Jacqueline; Devkota, Rosan R.; Maryudi, Ahmad; Salla, Manjola

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.03.001

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“…Secondly, the data for this study is limited to the inner Terai region of Nepal. It must be noted that the CFM in the middle hills region of Nepal is considered to be very successful [69,70] compared to that in the Terai region [71,72], particularly in outcomes related to benefit equity and ceding of technocratic control of the government over forests [73][74][75].…”

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Role of Community and User Attributes in Collective Action: Case Study of Community-Based Forest Management in Nepal

Negi¹,

Pham

Karky

et al. 2018

Forests

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A growing literature on collective action focuses on exploring the conditions that might help or hinder groups to work collectively. In this paper, we focus on community-based forest management in the inner Terai region of Nepal and explore the role of community and user attributes such as group size, social heterogeneities, forest user' perception on forests, and affiliation to the user group, in the collective action of managing community forests. Household surveys were carried out with 180 households across twelve community forest users' groups. We first measured ethnic diversity, income inequality, landholding inequality, and user perception towards the use and management of community forests to understand their effect on the participation of forest users in the management of community forests. Our results show that among the studied variables, group size (number of forest users affiliated to the community forests) and perception of the management of their community forests are strong predictors of forest user participation in community forest management. Income inequality and ethnic diversity were found to have no significant association. Land inequality, however, was found to decrease participation in the management and use of community forests. These community and user attributes play a crucial role in the success of collective action and may vary from community to community. Hence they need to be duly considered by the practitioners prior to any community-based project interventions for stimulating successful collective action.Forests 2018, 9, 136 2 of 20 management (CFM) is considered as one of the successful models of community-based forest governance [4]; the success of which depends on many factors, such as socio-economic heterogeneity, institutional setting, leadership, property rights regimes, degree of decentralization, community characteristics, technology, and market influence etc. [5,6]. The premise of the CFM asserts that communities or groups of forest users collectively engage in the management of the forest. Hence, the involvement and participation of the forest users has been deemed integral for the functioning of CFM as collective action in forest management [7][8][9][10].Over the years, many case studies have emerged in the literature, suggesting that some communities are more successful than others in achieving success in collective action [11][12][13][14][15][16]. This has sparked a notable debate among scholars on the diverse conditions and factors that may facilitate and/or hinder the collective action [17]. While there is consensus on the fact that a certain set of variables such as physical and socio-economic environment, local governance structures, social capital, community's willingness to participate, tenure rights etc. influence the likelihood of collective action [18], there is no consensus about the particular effect that these variables have. The communities managing the forests worldwide may differ in their capacity, interests, and perceptions regarding community forestry [...

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Role of Community and User Attributes in Collective Action: Case Study of Community-Based Forest Management in Nepal

Negi¹,

Pham

Karky

et al. 2018

Forests

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“…However, the policies and funding support on social forestry are unable to improve the performance of social forestry in the field. In general, community forestry still receives many critics (Hajjar et al, 2013) and has not been implemented effectively (Cronkleton et al, 2013;Soepijanto et al, 2013;Schusser et al, 2014).…”

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Integrated Analysis of Forest Policies and Their Impacts on Landscape and Lifescape Dynamics: A Case Study in The Walanae Forest Management Unit, Indonesia

Tajuddin

Supratman

Salman

et al. 2018

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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In the past few decades, forest policies have caused changes in forest landscape and community lifescape in the study area of Walanae Forest Management Unit (KPH Walanae), South Sulawesi Province. This research aims to analyze forest policy dynamics and their impacts on landscape and lifescape dynamics. We quantify landscape dynamics using land use and land cover change and landscape metrics in interpreting remote sensing results of four data sets obtained in 1990, 2000, 2009, and 2016. Furthermore, we investigate lifescape dynamics using qualitative/quantitative description. We found a rapid land use change in forest landscapes within the past 26 years. A significant change showed that, in 1990–2000, the primary forest that changed into the secondary forest and shrubs has changed into dry land agriculture mix shrubs. The decreased area of the forest brought an increase in economic income for people on one side and large disturbances and forest fragmentation on the other. Various forest policies influenced the forest composition and cover but were insufficiently successful in protecting the natural forest. Results showed that several forest policies that considerably impact the landscape and lifescape conditions include forest land designation, industrial forest plantation, and restoration activities. The policies on establishing KPH and social forest program have not shown the maximum result on the landscape and lifescape improvements and, therefore, must be supported.

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“…However, such engagements have been broadly shaped by each actors own interest and legacy. The power dynamics among them determine the degree of their decisive role as an individual actor (Schusser et al 2016). Each role is actually uneven as some hold more power than others and hence have a greater influence on policy and management process (Cilliers et al 2013;Schusser et al 2016).…”

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“…The power dynamics among them determine the degree of their decisive role as an individual actor (Schusser et al 2016). Each role is actually uneven as some hold more power than others and hence have a greater influence on policy and management process (Cilliers et al 2013;Schusser et al 2016). Ultimately, the governance system put in place, including political and policy changes, has an important role to play in the degree of stakeholders' decision-making.…”

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Breaking the Bottleneck: Conflicts Metamorphosis of Chure Landscape Management in Federal Nepal

Bhattarai¹,

Bishwokarma

Legras

2018

J. Forest & Livelihood

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Chure forests, which is one of the youngest and most fragile landscapes of Nepal, continue to be degraded due to resource exploitation and conflict over its management. This region is considered to be the lifeline to down-stream communities -mainly for water -while inhabiting millions of poor and rural people that depend on natural resources -especially forests commons. Government initiatives to manage Chure have escalated contestations in the recent years. Its decision to declare Chure landscape as 'Environmental Protection Area' manifests a protection-centric management approach. This research scrutinises the genesis of contestation on Chure management utilising three-elements of conflicts described by Brown et al. (2017). It analyses power-relation to demonstrate potential implications on Chure landscape management as well as conflict resolution options, in the changed political context of federal Nepal. Our research reveals that all stakeholders are well aware of the continuous degradation of Chure landscape and have agreed on discovering the common locus of sustainable management. However, the state-community contestation still persists due to divergent understandings of degradation. Despite multiple strands of management options, contextualised communitybased approach still appears to be an appropriate option to solve this persistent contestation, building on the practices of community forestry and historic failures of top-down, protectioncentric management practice. The newly elected provincial and local governments could further facilitate a more effective management of Chure landscape through resolving the contentious state-community conflict.

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Comparing community forestry actors in Cameroon, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal and Germany

Cited by 66 publications

References 20 publications

Role of Community and User Attributes in Collective Action: Case Study of Community-Based Forest Management in Nepal

Role of Community and User Attributes in Collective Action: Case Study of Community-Based Forest Management in Nepal

Integrated Analysis of Forest Policies and Their Impacts on Landscape and Lifescape Dynamics: A Case Study in The Walanae Forest Management Unit, Indonesia

Breaking the Bottleneck: Conflicts Metamorphosis of Chure Landscape Management in Federal Nepal

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