Enhancing voluntary participation in community collaborative forest management: A case of Central Java, Indonesia

Lestari, Sri; Kotani, Koji; Kakinaka, Makoto

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.10.009

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“…Furthermore, people who volunteered often were also more aware of the organization's mandate, activities, successes, failures, changes, and future plans. These findings support other scholars' findings with respect to participation in collaborative forest governance management activities in Australia, Bolivia, and Indonesia (e.g., Leys and Vanclay 2011, Biedenweg and Monroe 2013, Lestari et al 2015; these researchers found that people who actively participated in forest management activities learned more and participated more, a kind of positive feedback loop. One could stop there and simply state that engaging in forest governance provided local community members with access to social learning opportunities and increased their capacity to participate in forest governance.…”

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Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance

Egunyu¹,

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2015

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ABSTRACT. Collaborative forest governance enables forest-based communities access to and management responsibilities for forestry resources. Researchers argue that processes that enable social learning have the potential to contribute to the sustainable management of forests by engaging local people, helping them identify their collective needs and gain access to resource entitlements, and encouraging them to learn about and implement different management options. Although there is considerable attention to gender in the literature on collaborative forestry, particularly in developing countries, there is relatively little attention to gender in the social learning literature. Furthermore, there is almost no attention to these issues in postindustrial countries. Our purpose was to better understand how gender affects social learning and collaborative forest governance in forest-based communities in Canada and Uganda. Results showed that most participants in both countries started engaging in collaborative forest governance with limited knowledge and learned as they participated in various activities. However, we found that social learning opportunities and outcomes were affected by gender; in addition, they were also affected by the values that people held, education, and literacy. We suggest that practitioners should consider gender and other axes of difference if they want to design collaborative forest governance initiatives that are both participatory and inclusive.

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“…Similarly, Lestari et al (2015) found education levels to be positively related to participation in and learning outcomes from collaborative forest governance initiatives. In our case, women and men who could speak English and Swahili attended all seminars hosted by KICODA, but those who could not speak these 2 languages were left out.…”

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Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance

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2015

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“…Sheil and Salim (2012) have reported that it is the poorer communities with the lowest educational attainment who are the highest users of wild plant products. According to Lestari et al (2015) high-income people are more concerned about forest sustainability than about its immediate usefulness.…”

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Indonesian shrimp resource accounting for sustainable stock management

Anna

2017

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Abstract. Hidayat S. 2017. The use by local communities of plants from Sesaot Protected Forest, West Nusa Tenggara,. Sesaot Protected Forest is a forest area located very close to human settlements in Sesaot Village, Narmada Sub-district, West Lombok District, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The level of dependence of rural communities on the forest resources is very high. This study aimed to determine the range of utilization of plants made by people living around the forests, and to evaluate conservation needs for these plants. Utilization of the various plants by Sesaot society was observed in an ethnobotanical study employing a combination of open interview techniques and field observation over a two week period. The results of the study showed that there were 61 species of forest plants utilized by the Sesaot people. Among the 61 species, there were species that had a single function or others that had multiple functions. There were 20 species utilized as food and beverage; 19 used as medicines and herbs; and 15 species as building materials. Other species were utilized in a variety of ways: as fuel wood, as material for craft and/or furniture, for animal traps, as food wrappings and as ornamental plants. The part of the plant most widely used was wood (30.8%), either as a building material, as craft material, for firewood, or in medical treatments. The utilization of wood products poses significant risks for the survival of certain tree species, because the timber is generally obtained by illegal logging. It was noted that certain prized timber producing species tend to be targeted by illegal loggers; such as garu (Dysoxylum parasiticum), bajur (Pterospermum javanicum), rajumas (Duabanga moluccana) and some species of Myrtaceae. This study showed that Sesaot Protected Forest has an important role in sustaining the daily life of the surrounding community. However, without strong conservation efforts in the management of Sesaot Protected Forest, it is feared that unsustainable utilization practices will lead to the loss of some important plant species from this region.

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“…These analyses make it possible to separate predictors that are significant for initiating the procedure of the rural migration decision from predictors that are significant for completing the procedure by actual migration to rural areas. Lestari, Kotani, and Kakinaka () adopted a similar statistical strategy in their study.…”

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Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Rural In‐migration

Nakagawa

2017

Rural Sociology

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In recent times, many studies have been conducted to understand those who migrate to rural areas. However, few have investigated the psychological and behavioral factors that affect people's decisions to migrate to rural areas. This study identifies the psychological and behavioral factors that have been suggested in the psychology literature and in rural studies as factors affecting people's decision to move to rural areas. The study is unique in that it categorizes the psychological states during the process of rural migration decision into three levels and identifies how psychological and behavioral factors affect people at each level. Researchers collected data from 906 respondents in Japan, including 128 people who had migrated to rural areas. The findings show that environmental and health concerns were significantly associated with initiating the procedure of the rural migration decision, while motives related to spiritual growth and employment were strongly connected with completing the procedure by actually migrating to rural areas. These findings contribute to a better understanding of a question that attracts a great deal of political attention in Japan: Why are rural areas gaining popularity especially after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011? This study represents the first time that the importance of psychological and behavioral traits, as measured by psychometrically sound scales, has been confirmed within a model explaining the decision to migrate to rural areas.

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Enhancing voluntary participation in community collaborative forest management: A case of Central Java, Indonesia

Cited by 36 publications

References 28 publications

Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance

Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance

Indonesian shrimp resource accounting for sustainable stock management

Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Rural In‐migration

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