Factors influencing people’s participation in forest management in India

Lise, Wietze

doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(00)00182-8

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“…The analysis demonstrates that much of the existing literature that tries to identify a link between forest outcomes and dependence without taking into account the moderating effect of institutional factors underspecifies the relationship. It is not surprising, therefore, that different studies have found conflicting relationships between dependence and changes in the condition of commons (27,28).…”

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Forest commons and local enforcement

Chhatre

Agrawal

2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This article examines the relationship between local enforcement and forests used as commons. It uses a unique multicountry dataset, created over the past 15 years by the International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program. Drawing on original enforcement and forest commons data from 9 countries, we find that higher levels of local enforcement have a strong and positive but complex relationship to the probability of forest regeneration. This relationship holds even when the influence of a number of other factors such as user group size, subsistence, and commercial importance of forests, size of forest, and collective action for forest improvement activities is taken into account. Although several of the above factors have a statistically significant relationship to changes in the condition of forest commons, differences in levels of local enforcement strongly moderate their link with forest commons outcomes. The research, using data from diverse political, social, and ecological contexts, shows both the importance of enforcement to forest commons and some of the limits of forest governance through commons arrangements.governance ͉ sustainability ͉ collective action ͉ local institutions ͉ forest regeneration

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Forest commons and local enforcement

Chhatre

Agrawal

2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

296

163

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“…11 Caste is a commonly used indicator of social status in much of South Asia. However, the exact status of numerous castes is highly context specific (Lise, 2000). Education is similarly an important variable that can serve as an indicator of both social status and economic opportunities (Adhikari et al, 2004;Stem, Lassoie, Lee, Deshler, & Schelhas, 2003).…”

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Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal’s Terai

Agrawal

Gupta²

2005

World Development

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Summary. -Decentralization has emerged as an important instrument of environmental and development policy in the last two decades. Presumed benefits of environmental policy decentralization depend in significant measure on broad participation in the programs that governments create to decentralize decision making related to resource management. This paper uses data from protected areas in Nepal's Terai to examine who participates in environmental decentralization programs. On the basis of our statistical analysis, we highlight the fact that the likelihood of participation in community-level user groups is greater for those who are economically and socially better-off. We also find that individuals who have greater access to and who visit government offices related to decentralization policies more often are also more likely to participate in user groups created by state officials. Finally, we find a negative correlation between education and levels of participation. Our study and analysis support the argument that for decentralization policies to be successful on equity issues, it is important to build institutional mechanisms that encourage poorer and more marginal households to access government officials, improve access to educational opportunities, and create incentives to promote more interactions between less powerful rural residents and government officials.

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“…Participation of farmers may differ among farmers according to their socioeconomic backgrounds [26] . Education has been reported to influence farmers' participation in forest management [20,16,24,9] . The influence of age on participation in forestry activities is not clear.…”

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“…friends, neighbors, consulters, public forestry sector and private forestry sectors) are necessary for forest dwellers' participation in forestry activities that local people can get information in relation to forestry through them [12,10,6] . Forest dependency stimulates people's participation in forest management; a higher level of forest dependence means that the people have a higher stake in the forest, which is reflected in their level of participation [20] . Therefore, community action is influenced by forest dependency [25] .…”

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“…It is widely argued that devolution of natural resource management is the most viable option for ecological and economic sustainability of the natural resources [11] . According to researches have been done [13,3,10,20] , participation of local communities is one of effective approaches in forest management. Community participation in resource management essentially means sustainable use and management of natural resources by people, living in and around a region integrated ecologically, socially and culturally [21] .…”

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Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Forest Dwellers' Participation in Reforestation and Development of Forest Areas (The Case Study of West Mazandaran, Iran)

Faham¹,

Rezvanfar²,

Shamekhi³

2008

American J. of Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Abstract:The main purpose of this study was to investigate the links between forest dwellers' participation in reforestation and development of forest areas in west Mazandaran of Iran and a set of socio-economic variables. The statistical population includes all forest dwellers living in villages, which locate in the west Mazandaran in Iran and had been covered by local forestry cooperative. A sample of 110 forest dwellers were selected by the use of proportional random sampling method. A questionnaire was used to collect data. For determining the validity of questionnaire, the content validity was used. Cronbach's alpha was used to measure reliability of the index measuring level of participation in reforestation and development of forest areas that its extent was 0.86 and showed that mentioned variable had high reliability. The data were analyzed by the use of descriptive and inferential statistics such as extent of mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, correlation analysis and regression analysis. The findings revealed that age, level of literacy, level of participation in extension-education courses, using level of communication channels and information resources, level of forest dependency, social participation, social solidarity, economic and social motivations are positively and significantly (p<0.01) correlated with level of forest dwellers' participation in reforestation and development of forest areas. Household size is positively and significantly (p<0.05) correlated with level of forest dwellers' participation in reforestation and development of forest areas. The result of multiple regression showed that variables of level of participation in extension-education courses, age, household size, level of economic motivation, social solidarity and level of literacy could explain 51.4% of the variation in the level of forest dwellers' participation in reforestation and development of forest areas.

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Factors influencing people’s participation in forest management in India

Cited by 139 publications

References 8 publications

Forest commons and local enforcement

Forest commons and local enforcement

Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal’s Terai

Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Forest Dwellers' Participation in Reforestation and Development of Forest Areas (The Case Study of West Mazandaran, Iran)

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