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The Geographical Journal
Decentralised forest management: towards a utopian realism2014 •
The utopian impulse is the human longing to build the best of all possible worlds imaginable through social theories, policy discourses, legal texts, and institutional structures. The utopian impulse is evident in the meta-narratives behind human institutions. In developing countries including Cameroon, the utopian impulse has influenced the transition from fortress conservation to contemporary decentralised forestry paradigm. Decentralised forestry not only wishes to save the forest but calls for an equitable and just forestry sector. Decentralised forestry at its core is a utopian vision for a best of all possible worlds imaginable for forest-dependent people. However, utopia inspires both loyalty and opposition; it enchants and threatens all at once. It is therefore not surprising that contemporary decentralised forestry paradigm, with its lofty rhetoric of social justice as integral to saving the tropical forest, has faced opposition. This article argues that insights from utopian studies would help decentralised forestry advocates to be better prepared to respond to opposition they experience in their work. KEY WORDS: decentralised forestry, utopia, Cameroon
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Things Fall Apart? The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria2015 •
Forest Policy and Economics
Benefits of forests in Cameroon. Global structure, issues involving access and decision-making hiccoughs2005 •
Small-scale Forestry
The Quest for Sustainable and Decentralized Forest Governance in Eastern Cameroon: The Dimako Council Forest Case Examined2015 •
In this book, Pauline von Hellermann nudges the proponents of forest governance to rethink the standard storyline. The author asks if scientific forestry, an enterprise founded on a combination of forest reservation, logging regulations, and regeneration programs, is inherently conducive to the pursuit of sustainable forestry.
SUMMARY In Cameroon, the forest sector competes with other sectors in contributing to achieve national development goals. The current trend in policy making in this wise is characterized by sectorial approaches. This poses serious threats to sustainable forest management in the absence of a national land use planning, and an undervaluation of the contribution of forests to the national economy due to an ever increasing informal economy and the way other forest products and services are framed. The study builds on policy subsystem governance fragmentation and cross-sectorial policy impact frameworks to highlight the reality that, despite efforts in setting bridges between sectorial development policies such as mining, forest, agriculture, energy and infrastructures, information asymmetry poses bias to policy-makers' knowledge for rational policy hierarchy setting and global policy coherence in Cameroon. And despite this reality, some examples show that policy-makers still can innovate to facilitate offsetting among competing land use sectors for the sake of a more sustainable development pathway. Les politiques forestières et le contexte national de l'utilisation des terres au Cameroun: Des approches sectorielles vers une cohérence globale? F. KENGOUM DJIEGNI, S. ASSEMBE-MVONDO, R. EBA'A ATYI, P. LEVANG et T. FOMÉTÉ Au Cameroun, le secteur forestier s'oppose souvent aux autres secteurs dans la réalisation des objectifs de développement national. La mise en oeuvre des politiques nationales est majoritairement sectorielle. Ce type d'approche pose des défis sérieux à une gestion durable des forêts, en raison de l'absence d'une réelle planification de l'utilisation des terres, de la croissance de l'économie informelle, et de l'insuffisante apprécia-tion des autres produits et services forestiers. L'étude se base sur la fragmentation de la gouvernance des sous-systèmes de politiques, et l'impact intersectoriel des politiques. Elle met en exergue qu'en dépit des efforts visant à construire des passerelles entre les politiques sectorielles de développement (tels que les secteurs minier, forestier, agricole, énergétique et infrastructurel), l'asymétrie d'information entre secteurs biaise la définition des priorités politiques par les décideurs ainsi que leur cohérence. Malgré cette réalité, quelques exemples montrent toutefois que des solutions innovantes existent pour aboutir à des arbitrages positifs entre secteurs allant dans le sens du développement durable. Política forestal de Camerún en el marco general nacional de la utilización de tierras: ¿desde los enfoques sectoriales a la coherencia global? F. KENGOUM DJIEGNI, S. ASSEMBE-MVONDO, R. EBA'A ATYI, P. LEVANG y T. FOMÉTÉ En Camerún, el sector forestal compite con otros sectores en la consecución de los objetivos nacionales de desarrollo. Así, la tendencia actual de desarrollo de políticas está caracterizada por enfoques sectoriales. Esto implica graves riesgos para la gestión sostenible de los bosques en ausencia de una planificación nacional de la utilización de tierras, además de una subestimación de la contribución de los bosques a la economía nacional debido a una economía informal creciente y a la manera en la que se enfocan los demás recursos y servicios forestales. Este estudio utiliza los marcos teóricos de la fragmentación de la gobernanza del subsistema político y de los impactos políticos entre sectores tales como el minero, forestal, agrícola, de energías y de infraestructuras. La asimetría de la información genera sesgos en el conocimiento de los legisla-dores para el establecimiento de un marco político jerárquico racional y una política global coherente en Camerún. A pesar de esta realidad, algunos ejemplos muestran que los legisladores aún pueden innovar para facilitar las compensaciones entre sectores de utilización de tierras conflictivos en vistas a un camino de desarrollo más sostenible.
Environmental Conservation
Democratic decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution to forest management, livelihoods, and enfranchisement2010 •
Journal of Biosocial Science
Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World. Edited by Laura A. German, Alain Karsenty and Anne-Marie Tiani. Pp. 413. (Earthscan, London, 2010.) £65.00, ISBN 978-1-84407-756-4, hardback2011 •
This paper examines the contest for power over forest resources between the Forest Department and elected local government in the context of decentralized forestry in Senegal. Based on ethnographic work with a forestry management intervention purporting to implement decentralization, the paper shows that power struggles center on the formation of local authorities (institutional choice) and the technical framing of forest management. It also illuminates the ways that technical claims and politico-legal counterclaims and their supporting discourses shape these struggles. The project engendered awareness among local governments about the economic and political stakes involved in forest management, which sparked resistance to the project's technically oriented institutional choices. The paper demonstrates the effects of institutional choice legitimated by discourses that privilege technical requirements and outside expertise. Importantly, the research also indicates that power struggles over resources are dynamic. Technical discourses can be countered by arguments that evoke the need for broad-based political participation, lawfulness and democracy.
Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior
Cita en Gutiérrez, Silvia y Yazmín Cuevas (2024), “Lo que los memes dicen sobre la educación virtual durante la pandemia por COVID 19”, Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior (RIES), vol. XV, núm. 42, pp. 37-552024 •
The Classical Review
A REVISED LOEB OF HISTORIA AUGUSTA - (D.) Magie, (D.) Rohrbacher (edd., trans.) Historia Augusta. Volume I-II-III. (Loeb Classical Library 139-140-263)2022 •
Jurnal Pendidikan Sekolah Dasar
Penerapan Metode Total Physical Response (TPR) Dalam Penguasaan Kosa Kata Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Dasar (SD)Smart States and a New Era for NATO in a Neo-Bipolar Systemic Era
NRDC-GR HERALD NRDC-GR HERALD THE MAGAZINE OF NATO RAPID DEPLOYABLE CORPS-GREECE THE MAGAZINE OF NATO RAPID DEPLOYABLE CORPS-GREECE2024 •
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Numen, Vol. 70, No. 5. Leiden: Brill, 2023: 473-513.
Interdisciplinarity in Nondisciplines: Archive and Academe in the Study of ReligionbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Quantitative detection of sleep apnea with wearable watch device2020 •
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ
Climate Influence on Antarctic Sea Ice Formation Recorded through Remote Sensing2020 •
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Lacosamide in bipolar disorder: A 30-day comparison to a retrospective control group treated with other antiepileptics2018 •
Вестник Ошского государственного университета. Сельское хозяйство: агрономия, ветеринария и зоотехния
АЛГОРИТМ РАЗРАБОТКИ ПРОТОКОЛА ОЦЕНКИ БЛАГОПОЛУЧИЯ КОСЯЧНЫХ ЛОШАДЕЙ2017 •
Penerbit BRIN eBooks
Sistem Pemeliharaan Ternak Ruminansia yang Adaptif Terhadap Perubahan Iklim2023 •