Local Forest Management – The Impacts of Devolution Policies

Edmunds, D.

doi:10.1108/meq.2004.15.3.336.2

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“…Efforts to increase forest cover and stand volume were reinitiated in 1978, but the “third great cutting” in the early 1980s, which has been blamed on excessive harvest by timber farms and insecure forest tenure rights among villagers (Edmunds and Wollenburg, 2003; Hyde et al, 2003), set back efforts to increase the forestry inventory. Planting of shelterbelts, engineered forests, and economic forests did not contribute large gains in coverage and volume until the early 1990s.…”

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Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Is the Returning Farmland to Forest Program a Success? Three Case Studies from Sichuan

Trac

Schmidt

Harrell

et al. 2013

Environmental Practice

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China’s tuigeng huanlin or “Returning Farmland to Forest” (RFFP) program has been widely praised as the world’s largest and most successful payment for ecosystem services program, as well as a major contributor to China’s dramatic increase in forest cover from perhaps as low as 8% in 1960 to about 21% today. By compensating rural households for the conversion of marginal farmland to forestland and financing the afforestation of barren mountainsides, the program, in addition to expanding forestland, aims to reduce soil erosion and alleviate poverty. This paper presents qualitative and quantitative studies conducted on the local implementation of RFFP in three diverse townships in Sichuan. We find the actual results to be more mixed than the official figures would indicate. Though there have been some positive results, we identify problems with site and species selection, compensation for land taken out of cultivation, shift of labor to off-farm activities, and monitoring of replanted sites, which challenge the ecological and economic impacts of these programs and reveal much of the effort of the program has been misdirected. We suggest that efforts are misplaced because of the top-down, panacea nature of the program, which in turn is a feature of Chinese bureaucratic management.

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Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Is the Returning Farmland to Forest Program a Success? Three Case Studies from Sichuan

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Schmidt

Harrell

et al. 2013

Environmental Practice

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“…Second, forest claims may assert different dimensions of justice , which can be broadly distinguished as redistribution, representation, and recognition (Schlosberg 2004 ; Walker 2011 ), and some dimensions of justice may be more valued than others in given socio-political contexts or by certain actors. Different dimensions of justice may explain why villagers may resist co-management initiatives, even where those deliver tangible benefits: aspects of participation and recognition may be more important to them than redistributive actions (Edmunds and Wollenberg 2003 ). Similarly, the Indian government’s redistribution of individual tenure rights to tribal households encounters opposition because it does not meet their demands for recognition of traditional kinship relations and connectedness to ancestral land (Bose 2013 ).…”

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REDD+ on the rocks? Conflict Over Forest and Politics of Justice in Vietnam

Sikor

Cầm²

2016

Hum Ecol

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In Vietnam, villagers involved in a REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) pilot protect areas with rocks which have barely a tree on them. The apparent paradox indicates how actual practices differ from general ideas about REDD+ due to ongoing conflict over forest, and how contestations over the meaning of justice are a core element in negotiations over REDD+. We explore these politics of justice by examining how the actors involved in the REDD+ pilot negotiate the particular subjects, dimensions, and authority of justice considered relevant, and show how politics of justice are implicit to practical decisions in project implementation. Contestations over the meaning of justice are an important element in the practices and processes constituting REDD+ at global, national and local levels, challenging uniform definitions of forest justice and how forests ought to be managed.

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“…There is no definition of forest, nature, destruction, and conservation, without any construction made by humans. In other words, there is no nature without human construction (Sarin et al, 2003;Edmunds and Wollenberg 2003;Dove et al, 2011). This perspective tends to be radical because it ignores the fact that nature, or forests, also have structures beyond human control.…”

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Forests and the Malays: Historical Perspective on the Forest Management in Sumatera (Indonesia)

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The study figured out dynamic interactions between forests and the Malays in Sumatera (i.e. Riau Province), Indonesia. The interactions observed in this study indicate that in many cases human activities resulted in a direct impact on forest degradation, but at the same time some people have fought to protect the forests. This study also revealed that the forest is undeniable natural resources. Even though the forest is susceptible to human activities because it can easily be explored. History had shown from colonial to independence that forest is an important resource to contribute to state foreign exchange, due to business permit issued by the government for companies to manage natural forests. Somehow, that policy impacted on forest degradation quickly. In every period, the pressure to protect forests is always accompanied by the state’s policy. The interactions between humans and forests are mostly affected by external factors, including trading natural resources for economic interest.

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Local Forest Management – The Impacts of Devolution Policies

Cited by 50 publications

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Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Is the Returning Farmland to Forest Program a Success? Three Case Studies from Sichuan

Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Is the Returning Farmland to Forest Program a Success? Three Case Studies from Sichuan

REDD+ on the rocks? Conflict Over Forest and Politics of Justice in Vietnam

Forests and the Malays: Historical Perspective on the Forest Management in Sumatera (Indonesia)

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