1st Edition

Forestry In Development Planning Lessons From The Rural Experience

By Harry W. Blair Copyright 1988
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    219 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores some of the relationship between forestry and rural development focusing on lessons that the overall experience in rural development might have for social forestry. It examines a single social forestry project to see how it would look from a rural development perspective.

    Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Constraints to Development: Limits to Change -- Resource Constraints -- Organizational Constraints -- Policy Constraints -- Structural and System Constraints -- Tackling the Constraints: Development Initiatives -- Rural Institutions and Development -- Rural Development Strategies -- Equity and Balance in Rural Institutions -- Lessons in Rural Development: Some Illustrations -- Fitting Forestry and Rural Development Together -- Potential Pitfalls for Forestry in Development -- Conclusion