Joint Forest Management
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Forest land tenures in India has remained diverse, plural with multiple legal and customary regimes and reflects a continuum of rights while manifesting state, community and individual ownership. Forest tenure arrangements and practices... more
Joint Forest Management(JFM) originated in West Bengal in 1980's in India. JFM is the official and popular term in India for partnerships in forest movement involving both the state forest departments and local communities This paper is... more
Introduction Generally, forest villages are found both in the interior and fringe areas with dense and fairly dense forest cover. The forest is not only a source of income to the villagers but it also provides employment to the local... more
The 'forest landscape restoration' (FLR) approach seems to be the latest international favourite in forest improvement and climate change mitigation strategies. The significant feature of FLR is the multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral, and... more
This paper attempts to verify whether the present forest management policies have ensured biodiversity conservation and in turn livelihood protection for the forest dependent people. For this purpose a household survey was conducted in... more
This article examines the concept of ‘jointness’ in India’s Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme, understood as an engagement between the state (in this case the Forest Department) and people organized into ‘communities’, with NGOs,... more
""This paper was a response to ‘Deconstructing the Harda Experience: Limits of Bureaucratic Participation’, (Economic and Political Weekly, November 26, 2005) by Prof. Bhaskar Vira of the Cambridge University. My paper critiques the... more
A key issue that needs to be resolved when establishing a community forest, is how the costs and benefits will be distributed. This paper reports on the use of the 4Rs tool to facilitate decision-making about management and... more
Abstract. New institutional economists have argued that there are many categories of institutions, including market and non-market institutions, which may prove economically efficient, specifically for public goods and common pool goods.... more
Chapter 4 JABALPUR DISTRICT, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA: MINIMIZING CONFLICT IN JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT Shashi Kant and Roshan Cooke Joint forest management (JFM) is a system in which forestry departments and local com-munities share both ...
Short piece on Arcadia on Gwaii Haanas
Traces the changes in forest policy in India, from the colonial era to the present. Under the latest (1988) forest policy, greater weight is given to people's needs and ecological interests, and accordingly the forest department has also... more
In Pakistan, the traditional hierarchal governance of forest resources performed well as long as the large forest resources were available, however, after independence the population increased rapidly and consequently their demands of... more
A fierce land-use dispute evolved over the temperate rainforests of the Haida Gwaii Islands in British Columbia, Canada, in 1974. Indigenous and environmental protests, illegal road blockades, campaigning, negotiations, public hearings,... more
To draw lessons for informing strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and fostering conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), this study assessed... more
Rural communities in the developing world depend heavily on natural resources. Ability of these communities to safeguard the resource would depend on their resilience which is nothing but their intentional action to build collective... more
In this book chapter, which was first presented by me in a seminar gave an overview of the global anthropological knowledge on hunter-gatherers.Then I made an attempt to use this knowledge in joint forest management, which became famous... more