Local Forest Management

Wollenberg, Eva K.; Edmunds, D.; Suprapto, Bambang

doi:10.4324/9781849771856

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“…A great deal is now known about forest governance in landscapes shaped by internal dynamics within the sector. Previous studies on forest tenure reforms, community forestry, decentralization and industrial logging have greatly expanded our understanding of the challenges and principles of good forest governance (Forest Trends, 2006;Colfer and Capistrano, 2005;Ribot and Larson, 2005;Ruiz Pérez et al, 2005;White and Martin, 2005;Edmunds and Wollenberg, 2003). Much less is known, however, about forest governance in the context of extra-sectoral investments.…”

Section: Governing Fdi For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo

Mwitwa

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Muimba-Kankolongo

et al. 2012

Forest Policy and Economics

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Section: Governing Fdi For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo

Mwitwa

German

Muimba-Kankolongo

et al. 2012

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…In reality, the benefits of the CBFM programs have often failed to materialize. Even where central governments have actually ceded authority and management of forests to local communities, the lack of attention to institutional and social factors is usually presented as the main reason to explain that CBFM initiatives have fallen short of their stated goals (Edmunds andWollenberg 2003, Tole 2010). There is a very rich literature on institutional arrangements for CBFM, which theorizes that the success of community forestry is governed by the prior establishment of an adequate institutional framework and the strengthening of social capital (Hanna et al 1996, Pagdee et al 2006, Tole 2010, Baynes et al 2015.…”

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Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Lescuyer¹,

Kakundika²,

Lubala³

et al. 2019

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Since the second half of the 2000s, several options for implementing community-based forest management in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), like the local community forest concession (LCFC), have been discussed in the country's technical and political circles. Proposals and pilot testing have increased in the last five years, but the funding of initiatives is often proposed for divergent purposes and taking different approaches. We reviewed current experiences in the Eastern province of the DRC and found that nobody has carried out an estimation of the financial returns of the business models they drew up for/with the communities involved. We therefore conducted a financial feasibility analysis for two case studies, estimating the costs of developing/ implementing activities and the benefits expected for the communities within the next five years. Three main conclusions were drawn from the analysis: (1) most activities conducted under the LCFC model deal with rural development, and not with forestry operations per se; (2) several forestry activities such as biodiversity conservation or carbon sequestration are not detailed in the management documents and appear to have little legitimacy for local populations; (3) the two LCFCs show a negative financial performance because the inception and implementation costs are substantially higher than the medium-term profits. Community forestry is unlikely to develop in the DRC unless local people are guaranteed that it will contribute to improving their livelihoods, notably their financial and physical capital. This requires that LCFC initiatives focus on actual productive uses of forest resources, which financial performance is systematically assessed ex ante. A simplification of the legal constraints is also needed to reduce the cost of creating and managing a LCFC.

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The allocation of household-based forest protection contracts in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam: Elite capture as a bureaucratic impulse against community capture

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Journal of Sustainable Forestry

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Local Forest Management

Cited by 10 publications

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Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo

Governance and sustainability challenges in landscapes shaped by mining: Mining-forestry linkages and impacts in the Copper Belt of Zambia and the DR Congo

Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo?

The allocation of household-based forest protection contracts in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam: Elite capture as a bureaucratic impulse against community capture

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