People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance

People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance / edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom.

Unplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, can cause significant hardships for rural communities by destroying critical stocks of fuel, fodder, food, and building materials. It can also have profound regional and global consequences by contributing...

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Other Authors: Gibson, Clark C., 1961-, McKean, Margaret A., Ostrom, Elinor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Series:Politics, science, and the environment.
Subjects:
Forest management > Social aspects.
Forestry and community.
Forests and forestry.
forestry.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Forests and forestry
Forest management > Social aspects
Forestry and community
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Table of Contents:
  • Explaining deforestation : the role of local institutions / Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom
  • Common property : what is it, what is it good for, and what makes it work? / Margaret A. McKean
  • Small is beautiful, but is larger better? Forest-management institutions in the Kumaon Himalaya, India / Arun Agrawal
  • Successful forest management : the importance of security of tenure and rule enforcement in Ugandan forests / Abwoli Y. Banana and William Gombya-Ssembajjwe
  • Optimal foraging, institutions, and forest change : a case from Nepal / Charles M. Schweik
  • A lack of institutional demand : why a strong local community in Western Ecuador fails to protect its forest / Clark C. Gibson and C. Dustin Becker
  • Indigenous forest management in the Bolivian Amazon : lessons from the Yuracaré people / C. Dustin Becker and Rosario León
  • Population and forest dynamics in the hills of Nepal : institutional remedies by rural communities / George Varughese
  • Forests, people, and governance : some initial theoretical lessons / Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, and Margaret A. McKean
  • Appendix : International forestry resources and institutions research strategy / Elinor Ostrom and Mary Beth Wertime.

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