Owen J. Lynch and Kirk Talbott with Marshall S. Berdan Despite increasing interest in community-based forest management, real on-the-ground progress is still lagging. Data and analysis emerging from the seven countries studied in this report indicate that national legal incentives for sustainable community-based management of forest resources in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka; Papua New Guinea is the only exception in the study. Still, promising developments give hope. This report describes and analyzes the various legal, historical, and cultural settings under which community-based forest management initiatives have been forged, and more important, are being revised in response to ever more severe forest degradation. The authors identify roadblocks to community-based forest management and recommend steps to overcome them. 1995 / 188 pages |
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