1st Edition
Participatory Forest Policies and Politics in India Joint Forest Management Institutions in Jharkhand and West Bengal
By Manish Tiwary
Copyright 2004
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 2004. In a radical breakaway from colonial and postcolonial policies that were based on centralized and revenue-orientated control of forests, the government of India announced the Joint Forest Management (JFM) policy resolution in 1990. JFM promised important managerial concessions, including share in cash profit from the timber harvest to forest citizens, in exchange for... Read more
Contents: Political ecology and India's forests; Participatory forest management: the context of Jharkhand and West Bengal; Forest departments: changed roles, conventional goals; Forest protection committees: Forestry within the JFM boundaries; Voluntary forest protection groups: Indigenous beliefs, autogenous management; Panchayat and community forest protection groups: equity and institutional compliance in rural development forestry; Putting voluntarism to the test: case studies of NGOs in Bengal and Jharkhand; Conclusion: role of ecological institutions in participatory forest management; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.
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Manish Tiwary
