Institutional efficacy in resource management: temporally congruent embeddedness for forest systems of western India

Forest management and land use/cover changes in a typical micro watershed in the mid elevation zone of Central Himalaya, India

“…This paper reiterates the argument that institutions play a crucial role in molding forested landscapes. Finally, there is a need to consider the spatio-temporal conditions underlying success across institutional settings; especially when resources have multiple users and uses, and where management is complex and fraught with difficult implications for long term ecological sustainability (Pavri and Deshmukh, 2003). This is not to concentrate on management regime type per se, but rather to examine how variations in context and institutional structure promote or hinder sustainable natural resource management.…”

“…Underlying most contemporary human-environment interactions are institutions that legitimize systems of rights and rules governing how, and by whom, available resources are used (Bromley, 1991). In turn, property right regimes, embedded within institutional structures, organize behaviour patterns and produce resource use practices that invariably impact the quality and quantity of the resource itself (Stevernson, 1991;Robbins, 1998;Pavri and Deshmukh, 2003).…”

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

“…Therefore, the degradation continues and poses a threat to the future livelihood security of local communities. To ensure the local users' benefit from property rights, fostering embedded regime efficacy through state-people partnerships with clear distributed stakeholdership is very important for use and access to manage the SMF sustainably (Pavri and Deshmukh, 2003). Otherwise, an absence of embedded institutional structures with defined property rights will not elicit the 'correct' users' behaviour patterns and environmentally sustainable use practices (Robbins, 1998;Stevensen, 1991).…”

“…Otherwise, an absence of embedded institutional structures with defined property rights will not elicit the 'correct' users' behaviour patterns and environmentally sustainable use practices (Robbins, 1998;Stevensen, 1991). Embedded property rights for users are expected to spell out monitoring rights (Agrawal, 2001), rules and enforcement mechanisms (Ostrom, 1990) which will invariably impact the quality and quantity of the resources of the SMF (Pavri and Deshmukh, 2003). These are expected to develop institutional structure and leadership to be important variables to promote users' self organisation skill surrounding forest resources (Baland and Platteau, 1996;Ostrom, 1999) as an individual or collective resource (Chaskin, 2001).…”

“…Although Forest Policy and Economics 15 (2012) [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] property rights over natural resource management have become a distinct area of enquiry in environmental economics and policy formulation in recent times (Gerber et al, 2009;Glück, 2002;Irimie and Essmann, 2009), their role has not yet been investigated in the sustainable management of mangrove forests. Policy-makers have failed to develop any best-fit measures (Pavri and Deshmukh, 2003) to establish a clear connection between sustainable forest management and appropriate types of property rights regimes to address forest-people relationships. This paper investigates whether past conservation policies of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest (SMF) in Bangladesh reflect well-defined property rights to achieve sustainability for this forest and its dependent communities.…”