Download or read book Self mediated Interactions Among Community Forestry Actors in Nepal written by Christopher A. Thoms and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self mediated Interactions Among Community Forestry Actors in Nepal written by Christopher A. Thoms and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interests and Power as Drivers of Community Forestry written by Rosan Raj Devkota and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Together written by Amy Poteete and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective action and the commons, and demonstrates the importance of cross-fertilization involving multimethod research across traditional boundaries. The authors look at why cross-fertilization is difficult to achieve, and they show ways to overcome these challenges through collaboration. The authors provide numerous examples of collaborative, multimethod research related to collective action and the commons. They examine the pros and cons of case studies, meta-analyses, large-N field research, experiments and modeling, and empirically grounded agent-based models, and they consider how these methods contribute to research on collective action for the management of natural resources. Using their findings, the authors outline a revised theory of collective action that includes three elements: individual decision making, microsituational conditions, and features of the broader social-ecological context. Acknowledging the academic incentives that influence and constrain how research is conducted, Working Together reworks the theory of collective action and offers practical solutions for researchers and students across a spectrum of disciplines.
Download or read book Community forestry in Nepal a policy innovation for local livelihoods written by Hemant Ojha, Lauren Persha, Ashwini Chhatre and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Forestry in Nepal written by Richard Thwaites and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is widespread in Nepal, with a very high proportion of the rural population involved, and is widely recognized as one of the most successful examples of community forestry in Asia. Through a combination of literature reviews and original research, this volume explores key experiences and outcomes of community forestry in Nepal over the last four decades as a model for improving forest management and supporting local livelihoods. The book takes a critical approach, recognizing successes, especially in forest conservation and restoration, along with mixed outcomes in terms of poverty reduction and benefits to forest users. It recognizes the way that community forestry has continued to evolve to meet new challenges, including the global challenges of climate change, environmental degradation and conservation, as well as national demographic and social changes due to large-scale labour migration and the growing remittance economy. In addition to examining the changes and responses, the book explores ways that community forestry in Nepal might move forward. Lessons from Nepal have relevance to community forestry and community-based approaches to natural resource management around the world that are also experiencing global pressures and opportunities.
Download or read book Social Learning in Community Forests written by Eva Wollenberg and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reframing Governance written by Hemant R. Ojha and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forests of Learning written by Cynthia McDougall and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exclusion, inequity and low livelihood benefits: the need for innovation in community forestry in Nepal. Nepal's social and livelihood landscape is shaped by implicitand sometimes explicitsociopolitical struggles at many levels. These can be traced to historical patterns of hierarchy and inequitable power among actors interacting in, and with, a fragile environment. These patterns impact especially severely on poor and dalit people (from so-called 'low caste' groups) and women, and are manifested in social discrimination, relative exclusion from decision making, limited access to resources, and overall vulnerability in livelihoods. Community forestry embodies these struggles and patterns in a vivid way. Forests are a fundamental part of rural livelihood systems in Nepal. As such, forests are also a key area of 'contested space'; within communities and between communities and external actors. Through the considerable efforts of local people and governmental and civil society actors, the Nepal Community Forestry Programme has established more than 14,000 community forest user groups (CFUGs), many of which have improved their forest conditions. And yet, despite these achievements, policy makers and practitioners agree that community forestry in Nepal faces critical 'second generation'; challenges. Fundamental among these is the prevalent inequity in decision making and benefit sharing among members of CFUGs, with the economically and socially marginalised peoplessuch as women ...
Download or read book Forests of Learning Experiences from Research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to Community Forestry in Nepal written by Cynthia McDougall and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, awareness has grown in Nepal and globally regarding two of community forestry’s most critical challenges: equity and livelihoods. Yet even as understanding of these challenges has improved, actors from the local to the national levels in Nepal continue to be confronted with the dilemma of how to address these challenges in such a diverse, complex and dynamic context. This synthesis explores an adaptive collaborative approach to governance and management as one avenue to meet these challenges. This approach integrates inclusive decision making, networking, social learning, and pro active adjustments of practice and policies based on learning. The synthesis’ lessons are drawn from a six-year partnership-based research initiative in Nepal—spearheaded by the Center for International Forestry Research—which spanned the local, district and national levels. Key points of learning discussed in this book include factors, processes and arrangements that support—or limit—adaptive and collaborative capacities, such as active facilitation, ‘nested’ decision making, and learning-based monitoring. The book also explores both the conceptual underpinnings of the approach as well as its effects in research sites, including in terms of benefits for the poor, women and other traditionally marginalised people. This book is intended as a resource for policy makers and civil society practitioners alike, as well as researchers and others interested in pro-equity and livelihood innovations in community forestry. Through its clear conceptual and research lesson focus, this synthesis complements and is a sister publication to the hands-on guidebook entitled Facilitating Forests of Learning.
Download or read book Facilitating Forests of Learning written by McDougall, C. Pandit, B.H. Banjade, M.R. Paudel, K.P. Ojha, H. Maharjan,M. Rana, S. Bhattarai, T. Dangol, S. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Forest Benefits for the Poor written by Bishnu Hari Pandit and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Community Forestry in Nepal written by Elvira Graner and published by Verlag Fur Entwicklungspolitik. This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dilemmas of Justice written by Krishna K. Shrestha and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deliberative Governance and Community Forestry in Nepal written by Mani Ram Banjade and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite important innovations in participatory and community-based forest governance globally, there is still limited understanding of how, when, and under what conditions community voices and local institutions are linked through deliberative processes to the often multiple layers of decision making and governance. The lack of such understanding hinders effective policy and practical innovations to achieve the widely-shared goals of inclusive development, livelihood improvement and environmental sustainability. This study uses a deliberative democratic framework to explore how Nepal's forest governance might be improved. Drawing on the concepts of deliberative systems, and adapting them to the context of multi-level governance, this research explores whether, how and to what extent forest sector governance in Nepal exhibits deliberative qualities. The study is based on established concepts of deliberation, that envisage that all legitimate actors engage in exchanging justifications free from coercion, manipulation, or deception to arrive at the most informed and legitimate collective decision. The process addresses empowerment of the marginalized, mediates differences, and enhances mutual respect. A systemic approach to deliberation seeks to integrate various components-principally communicative practices and institutional arrangements-that have a bearing on the overall quality of decision-making and governance. The principal methodology of this research is qualitative case study. The empirical data was collected from community, meso and national levels by talking to people in-depth, closely observing discursive activities, events and processes within a setting, and analysing documents, published and unpublished. Other, complementary, qualitative research approaches employed in the research include document and narrative analysis, action research, and auto-ethnography. The research has demonstrated that although power and hegemony operate to suppress opportunities for non-coercive communicative practice at all levels, forest sector governance in Nepal has shown the potential for promoting deliberative-inclusive, informed and reflective-processes in decision-making and governance. Governance at community, meso and national levels exhibits the attributes of separate but overlapping deliberative systems. By examining forest governance at these levels, this research has shown the analytical value of differentiating various deliberative systems in understanding multi-level governance. A growing number of actors and cross-scale networks are playing a crucial role in deliberative forest governance in Nepal. In particular, the expanding deliberative space to civil society organizations is evident at meso and national level forest governance. Similarly, the better performing community forest user groups have been successful in addressing the issue of power both through internal reflection and external support. The study identifies a number of challenges to expand deliberative forest governance that require urgent attention. For example, elites in all circles - civil society, politics and bureaucracy - form alliances that resist demands for accountability, and make decisions that are often legitimized by deliberative politics and scientific reductionism. In addition, while civil society organizations play a positive role in democratizing multi-level forest sector governance, they lack adequate communicative skills and competence compared to the techno-bureaucrats, donors and other professional groups. Likewise, the elite actors lack the incentive and interest in promoting deliberative governance; however, strategies are identified to address this.
Download or read book Action Research for Community Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Forestry in Nepal written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
