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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Common forest resource management
annotated bibliography of Asia, Africa and Latin America
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No results found.The purpose of this study is to introduce some of the literature on Common Forest Resource Management from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is recognized that the three regional reviews of both published and unpublished sources and the issues analyses which constitute this document are not complete. However, it was decided to publish this material in order to present information known to date and identify gaps in our understanding of this important topic.Each of the authors describes and analy ses the local systems of Common Forest Resource Management and the role of externally sponsored assistance, particularly through projects. Key issues are highlighted such as systems of tree and land tenure, the general erosion of traditional rights, the reactions of rightholders to change, and measures taken to assert old rights or establish new ones. Rather than examining the same issues across regions, the regional chapters work to highlight the key issues for each given geographic zone. As a result, the same issues are not always confronted for all places.Perhaps the most important outcome of this compilation of the literature is the invitation to re-examine the conditions under which systems of collective management of natural resources are efficient and hold development potential. A belief in the viability and utility of local, collective, natural resource management regimes guides this study of the CFR management. One of the lessons of the regional studies is that the potential t o save and sustain the world's tree and forest resources exists in large measure in the traditions and actions of rural societies. -
Book (series)Communal Tenure and the Governance of Common Property Resources in Asia
Lessons of experiences in selected countries
2011Land Tenure Working Paper 20. This paper presents an analysis of communal tenure and its role for natural resource management system, in different contexts of selected Asian countries. The current market driven pressures on natural resources create both challenges and opportunities for communities and governments to use and strengthen communal tenure in order to promote sustainable management of some natural resources. Overall, policies and institutions that promote accountability and good gover nance over these resources, both by the government at national and local level and by communities, are required. Communal tenure will also very likely play a significant role in the policies and actions for climate change mitigation (REDD and REDD+). -
No Thumbnail AvailableDocumentCommon property forest resource management 1995Now, nearly 30 years after the publication of The tragedy of the commons, the negative experiences of governments with expropriation of common property resources have led to a reexamination of the potential of collective management; and there is a growing database of information on practical experiments with the restoration or strengthening of common property resource management systems. This issue of Unasylva focuses on both these aspects with respect to forest resources.
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