Learning from self-initiated community forest management in Orissa, India

Conroy, Czech; Mishra, Abha; Rai, A.

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“…Based on mentioned subjects reforestation programs are a common policy response among developing country governments in the tropics attempting to deal with environmental and economic problems caused by widespread deforestation [30] . 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.…”

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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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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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“…A number of the perception-based studies have done so. Some have triangulated the perception-based assessments by asking both forest officers and communities, checking management plans and other records, and doing forest walks, but have generally not reported the results of this triangulation and how the different estimates have been combined to yield the final estimate (Eg., , Bajracharya et al 2006, 14 Antinori & Rausser 2007). As our definition of the validated perception-based assessment method implies that the perception-based estimate is supported by some kind of inventory, the studies using this method, by definition, perform triangulation.…”

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Change We can Believe in? Reviewing Studies on the Conservation Impact of Popular Participation in Forest Management

Lund¹,

Balooni²,

Casse³

2009

Conservat Soc

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“…By contrast, indigenous communities have traditionally perceived the forests less as standing timber and more as a living resource from which to extract a sustained livelihood (Kumar, 2000;Conroy, Mishra, and Rai, 2000;Pal, 2000). The Forest Department, however, is reluctant to give up their control of the forests by recognizing local user rights.…”

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“…These indigenous institutions have been severely eroded over the many decades of Forest Department management and this has had an effect on forest degradation (Conroy, Mishra, and Rai, 2000). In recognition of this, the idea of Joint Forest Management (JFM) was pushed on the state forest departments in the early 1990s by the GoI, with encouragement by the Ford Foundation.…”

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“…The Forest Department, in essence, regards the forests as its own property and values them primarily for their commercial value. It continues to see its role as protecting and managing the forests for this purpose with little or no recognition of the use rights of the people (Pal, 2000;Saxena, 1995a).By contrast, indigenous communities have traditionally perceived the forests less as standing timber and more as a living resource from which to extract a sustained livelihood (Kumar, 2000;Conroy, Mishra, and Rai, 2000;Pal, 2000). The Forest Department, however, is reluctant to give up their control of the forests by recognizing local user rights.…”

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An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation

Остром¹,

Gibson²,

Shivakumar³

et al. 2014

Environment and Development Economics

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This report is published in Sida Studies in Evaluation, a series comprising methodologically oriented studies commissioned by Sida. A second series, Sida Evaluation, covers evaluations of Swedish development co-operation. Both series are administered by the Department for Evaluation and Internal Audit, an independent department reporting directly to Sida's Board of Directors. Foreword -Does 'aid' itself create incentives that undermine sustainability? This is the provoking question underlying the present study, which explores how the incentives that arise in the system of development co-operation affect sustainable outcomes. Reports may beThe point of departure is the view that many development problems in countries where foreign 'donors' operate are caused by weak or so-called perverse incentives for local actors to engage in collective action for their common good. In turn these perverse incentives are to a large extent rooted in unfavourable institutional circumstances. Sustainable solutions to development problems require institutional conditions that shape incentives for collective action, and development co-operation may promote the creation of such favourable institutions. However, it may also create or reinforce perverse incentives that prevent sustainable outcomes. In order to better understand any such 'donor'-imposed constraints to development, Sida's Department for Evaluation and Internal Audit, which is an independent department reporting directly to Sida's Board of Directors, commissioned the present study. It was conducted by a research team from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, headed by the internationally acknowledged political scientist Professor Elinor Ostrom.The contribution of the study is manifold: First of all, it introduces an institutional perspective on development and development co-operation that is partly novel to Sida and the rest of the 'aid' community. This perspective highlights the importance of incentives and increases our understanding of incentive problems within developing-country contexts as well as within the system of 'aid' itself. Secondly, the study provides a method and tools for institutional analysis and evaluation of the relationship between 'aid', incentives and sustainability. It illustrates theoretically how these tools can be used to analyse incentives within the complex system of 'aid', associated e.g. with 'donor-recipient' negotiations and with different 'aid' modalities. Finally, the study applies the method empirically, by initiating an analysis and evaluation of the incentive structure and its causes within Sida and five Sida-supported projects in India and Zambia. The analysis is based on interviews of more than 175 persons within Sida and Sida-supported activities and a thorough literature survey. The study concludes by drawing lessons and recommending Sida an agenda for action.A central argument of the study is that Sida can contribute to more sustainable outcomes, through 1) a more explicit and systematic und...

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Learning from self-initiated community forest management in Orissa, India

Cited by 55 publications

References 3 publications

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

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

Change We can Believe in? Reviewing Studies on the Conservation Impact of Popular Participation in Forest Management

An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation

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