Integrating stakeholder knowledge into natural resource governance is considered to add
flexibility to social–ecological systems (SES) because knowledge diversity reduces rigidity …

Community based forestry is seen as a promising instrument for sustainable forest
management (SFM) through the purposeful involvement of local communities. Globally …

Nepal's community forestry is considered as one of the popular model of decentralization in
natural resource management. The program encompasses a set of policy and instrumental …

This paper analyses the ongoing discourses and practices regarding the promotion of Non-
timber Forest Products (NTFPs). It assesses the existing claims and actual realization of …

Abstract Scientific Forest Management (ScFM) is gaining scholarly and policy attention in
Nepal. This interest validates the need for evidence on the costs and benefits for users in …

Potato is one of the most important food crops for smallholder farmers in the Ethiopian
highlands. Diseases, particularly bacterial wilt (caused by Ralstonia solanacearum) and late …

Forest governance has received considerable attention in recent years because good
governance in community forestry is deemed to be one way of harnessing its potentiality to …

Abstract 'Forest and nature governance'is a field that has recently emerged from forestry
sciences. It analyses the governance of a diverse set of issues, including deforestation …

The community forests (CF) in Nepal, facilitated by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs),
is widely recognized as an effective model of community-based forest management. Despite …

This chapter presents a short history of forest policy studies, with the aim of situating the
practice based approach of this book. Forest policy studies emerged as a sub-discipline …