Livelihood Sustainability and Community Based Co-Management of Forest Resources in China: Changes and Improvement

Chen, Haiyun; Shivakoti, Ganesh P.; Zhu, Tao; Maddox, David

doi:10.1007/s00267-011-9775-4

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“…Authoritative resources might be concentrated through the control of state institutions, which allows a privileged capacity for ordering, for instance, how stakeholder participation should take place. Indeed, participation in nondemocracies has been found to be especially dependent on the state, generating difficulties for establishing equal relationships between state and non-state actors [37]. If that is the case, non-state stakeholders in nondemocracies should have limited discursive and material agency, which in turn affects the prospects for multidirectional learning.…”

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Political Regime and Learning Outcomes of Stakeholder Participation: Cross-National Study of 81 Biosphere Reserves

Roldán

2017

Sustainability

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Stakeholder participation in natural resource management has spread widely, even to nondemocracies, driven by expectations of beneficial outcomes such as multidirectional learning. However, can we expect participation to be equally effective in achieving multidirectional learning in democracies and nondemocracies? Unsurprisingly, previous studies indicate the relevance of power distribution for learning. Higher levels of repression and accumulation of political capital in nondemocracies should limit the distribution of power across stakeholders. Yet, the relationship between political regime, participation, and learning has rarely been studied empirically. I address this gap by analysing multidirectional learning in stakeholder participation in 81 Man and the Biosphere reserves across 35 countries using ordinary least squares regression, Firth logistic regression, and heat maps. The results suggest that the amount of stakeholders sharing knowledge and learning is similar in both regimes. However, a closer analysis reveals differences in the impact different stakeholders have on the learning process. More concretely, local actors share knowledge more often and have a greater impact on stakeholders' learning in democracies, while state actors display similar behavior across regimes in terms of learning and sharing knowledge. Thus, although there are notable similarities across regimes, multidirectional learning through stakeholder participation is influenced by the political context.

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Political Regime and Learning Outcomes of Stakeholder Participation: Cross-National Study of 81 Biosphere Reserves

Roldán

2017

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“…The practice of CBCM in China has been supported by various international organizations, including Global Environment Facility (GEF), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), World Bank (WB), and others, with the primary goals of biodiversity conservation, socioeconomic development of nature reserves and their surrounding communities, and sustainable use of natural resources (Wei and Zhang 2006;Yang et al 2008;Chen et al 2012). Key characteristics of CBCM projects are as follows.…”

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“…Increased consciousness typically results in reduced or more conservative collection of forest products. (4) They provide training on agricultural techniques to enable farmers to improve crop production, optimize cultivation practices, and increase agricultural production outcomes (Webb and Shivakoti 2008;Chen et al 2012).…”

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Community forestry management and livelihood development in northwest China: integration of governance, project design, and community participation

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In projects of community development and natural resource management, local residents collaborate with government and NGOs on decisions about forest management and participate in programs designed to improve livelihoods while sustaining natural resources. This paper uses case studies and survey data in Gansu province of northwest China to explore social, ecological, and economic outcomes of community-based co-management (CBCM). Findings show that CBCM appears to have significantly increased livelihoods for local community residents overall. Forest condition and attitudes about forest conservation were also improved. However, economic benefits were not enjoyed uniformly within the communities because, although CBCM projects are nominally available to all, certain subgroups within communities are less likely to participate. Greater education, being married, and access to information are all strongly correlated with participation and thus the economic benefits of CBCM projects. Women, although they frequently participate in household decisions, are infrequent participants in CBCM projects, perhaps because project design does not meet their needs. Future improvements to CBCM project design should include increased access to information, education, and equitable treatment of diverse stakeholders in the decision-making process. Such improvements would likely lead to improvements in livelihoods as well as more sustainable forest management and conservation.

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“…Collaborative management of natural resources, or indeed co-management for any agreed purpose, is a complex enterprise, but an approach that, if executed properly, can bring benefits at multiple levels (Chen et al 2012;Liu et al 2011). As summarized by Vernooy (2011), co-management is 'a form of adaptive management that builds community resilience.'…”

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Pastoralists and wildlife conservation in western China: collaborative management within protected areas on the Tibetan Plateau

Foggin

2012

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

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Background: Pastoralists have long inhabited vast areas of western China, including the Tibetan Plateau region. Their traditional land use practices and cultural conservation ethic have helped to protect the natural resource base upon which they depend and the wildlife that co-exist with them in the grassland landscapes. However, in a rapidly changing socio-economic environment, including significant expansion of the protected area system and regional comprehensive development plans, local communities do not always have an evident voice in the conservation and development dialogues that closely affect their lives. Results: With introduction and development of collaborative management -that is, a partnership between local communities, nature reserve authorities and other stakeholders -a landscape-level approach to conservation is now being modelled in Qinghai Province. Central to effective co-management are bi-directional relationships. There are also a wealth of direct and indirect services that may be provided by pastoralists under co-management, and in the compensation and payment options available to them in return for their critical services.

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Livelihood Sustainability and Community Based Co-Management of Forest Resources in China: Changes and Improvement

Cited by 38 publications

References 22 publications

Political Regime and Learning Outcomes of Stakeholder Participation: Cross-National Study of 81 Biosphere Reserves

Political Regime and Learning Outcomes of Stakeholder Participation: Cross-National Study of 81 Biosphere Reserves

Community forestry management and livelihood development in northwest China: integration of governance, project design, and community participation

Pastoralists and wildlife conservation in western China: collaborative management within protected areas on the Tibetan Plateau

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