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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)A framework for analyzing institutional incentives in community forestry 1992
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This study was conducted to clarify certain institutional aspects of Sahelian forestry and, on the basis of this research, to develop a framework for the analysis of woodstock management activities. While this work is rooted in fourcase studies of forestry projects initiated over the past two decades in Niger, the framework of analysis has wider applications. Indeed many of the major conclusions are not in the least site or project specific. Two major points come out of this institutional appr oach to the understanding of incentives in community forestry. First, there is a need for careful attention to the diverse economic characteristics of trees in woodstock management projects. These characteristics (what the author calls "the attributes of goods and services") have significant implications for the types of organizations appropriate to manage them. Trees may be intrinsically "private goods," "common pool resources," or "public goods." This depends both on the degree to which access to trees and the goods and services they provide can be controlled, and on whether consumption of those goods and services is separable and rivalrous or joint and non-rivalrous. Designing woodstock management systems which treat those trees which are inherently private goods as common property resources will create management difficulties and lead to unnecessary consumption of resources. Trees may produce environmental protection services, such as controlling wind erosion, stabilizing watershed s and improving air quality. If trees producing these services are inherently common pool resources, they may be overharvested or destroyed if treated as private goods. The public services these trees generate may then be severely under-produced or not produced at all. -
No Thumbnail AvailableDocumentDecentralization and devolution in forestry 1999Attempts to shift management functions and powers can take any number of forms on a sliding scale from complete central control of forest resources to complete decentralization and devolution of both authority and power - although solutions at either extreme of the continuum are generally inappropriate. This issue of Unasylva examines a number of topics related to the redistribution of authority and power for forests and forestry. For the most part, the issue springs from the debate advanced at the International Seminar on Decentralization and Devolution of Forest Management in Asia and the Pacific, held in Davao, the Philippines, from 30 November to 4 December 1998. A number of articles in this issue were originally presented at the seminar, the organizers of which have been instrumental in the shaping of this Unasylva issue - their assistance is appreciated.
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No Thumbnail AvailableDocumentAccommodating multiple interests in forestry 1998In December 1997, FAO hosted a workshop, Pluralism and Sustainable Forestry and Rural Development. to exchange information and experiences and to explore mechanisms, methods and fore for optimizing cooperation among the different groups concerned with the management of forest resources. The workshop was attended by 35 participants representing different organizations (and organizational types, geographic regions and disciplines). The articles in this issue of Unasylva are adaptations of papers p resented at that workshop.
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