Community forestry refers to forest management that has ecological sustainability and local
community benefits as central goals, with some degree of responsibility and authority for …

This paper reviews and critiques a potential innovation in resource and environmental
management as a means of stimulating further research and refinement. Given the …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

Miombo woodlands cover vast areas of southern Africa. Of comparatively little interest for
export-oriented commercial logging, they are part of a complex system of rural land use that …

Many developing countries are increasingly shifting responsibility for natural resource
management from central to local government authorities. This essay analyzes a case study …

Devolved management of natural resources offers a means of advancing democracy,
combating poverty, and enhancing conservation. Remarkable successes have been …

Miombo woodland is the most extensive tropical seasonal woodland and dry forest
formation in Africa (perhaps even globally), covering an estimated 2.7 million km 2 in …

This paper reviews and synthesizes the published literature on decentralization of
renewable resources and development interventions to identify four key lessons for future …

Community forestry practice in Nepal emerged in late 1970s from the failure of centralized
forest governance to implement participatory forest management that improves deteriorating …

In South Asian public and academic discourses, the term 'tribe'is used freely. In many other
parts of the world this is not the case, and the term is considered problematic. It has been …