Village Voices Forest Choices

Author : Mark Poffenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Voices, Forest Choices written by Mark Poffenberger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Village Voices, Forest Choices offers the first comprehensive examination of revolutionary changes occurring in the management of India's forests. Over the past two decades, responding to scarcities, thousands of villages have taken charge of public forests, thereby controlling grazing and cutting. The result has been a striking renewal of once badly degraded ecosystems. Lush young secondary forests are emerging in many parts of central India, rich in biodiversity, where degrading, eroding wastelands were recently dominant. Equally remarkable, this has often happened with no outside assistance. The fourteen contributors to this book look at how this has occurred, including the institutional, economic, ecological, and political implications of this historic transformation. They assess how management goals for natural forests will change under community control and how government agencies, scientists, and other organizations might respond to these shifting priorities. Anyone concerned with the state of India's forests, or those interested in forestry and environmental policies will want this study.

Author : Mark Poffenberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Voices, Forest Choices written by Mark Poffenberger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles concerning grassroots forest movements in India.

Author : John Farrington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134664826
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development as Process written by John Farrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process" approaches to economic and social development appear to be more flexible and offer greater prospects of success than traditional "project" methods. Development as Process addresses the questions raised by the different natures of the two approaches. The authors examine development projects through experience in water resources development in India and in organizational learning by a Bangladeshi NGO. Inter-agency contexts are examined in the setting of an aquaculture project in Bangladesh and in the setting of agriculture and natural resources development in Rajisthan, India. Finally, the role of process monitoring is explained in the context of policy reform, with illustrations from forestry in India and land reform in Russia.

Author : Asmita Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811052158
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marginalities in India written by Asmita Bhattacharyya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban relocations; material deprivation of minority groups and tribes as a result of conflicts; continuing caste discrimination; reported cases of atrocities against lower castes and tribes; regional disparities; gendered forms of exclusion and those related to disability and many other conditions suggest the need to rethink notions and practices of marginality and exclusion in India. This volume critiques the principal ways of thinking about marginalities, which primarily consist of a focus on normative principles, and brings into focus the chasm between such principles and subjective notions and experiences of marginality and injustice. The uniqueness of this edited volume is that it connects theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies and discussions, and cases of exclusion are discussed within an overall inclusive and integrated framework. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, students, public policy formulators and for social innovators from private sectors and non-government organisations.

Author : Joe Human
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 9780855984397
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Forest Management written by Joe Human and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the achievements of the movement - 'Friends of Trees and Living Beings' - and considers its significance within the context of a national legal and policy frameworks; drawing on candid interviews with villagers, activists, NGO staff and forestry officials.

Author : Jesse C. Ribot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136869514
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens written by Jesse C. Ribot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The case studies presented here use a comparative framework to characterize the degree to which natural resource decentralizations can be said to be taking place and, where possible, to measure their social and environmental consequences. In general, the cases show that threats to national-level interests are producing resistance that is fettering the struggle for reform.

Author : Himadri Sinha
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180692468
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Forest written by Himadri Sinha and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to India and South East Asia.

Author : David Barton Bray
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292706375
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Community Forests of Mexico written by David Barton Bray and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an important and comprehensive book that is timely, original, and of uniformly high quality. There is relatively little familiarity outside of Mexico with the incredibly rich experience of community forest management there. Certainly no comprehensive review such as this book exists that covers so many aspects of the subject. . . . The book will appeal to scholars from both social and biophysical sciences interested in forest management and in broader conservation and development issues." —Marianne Schmink, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida Mexico leads the world in community management of forests for the commercial production of timber. Yet this success story is not widely known, even in Mexico, despite the fact that communities around the globe are increasingly involved in managing their own forest resources. To assess the achievements and shortcomings of Mexico's community forest management programs and to offer approaches that can be applied in other parts of the world, this book collects fourteen articles that explore community forest management from historical, policy, economic, ecological, sociological, and political perspectives. The contributors to this book are established researchers in the field, as well as many of the important actors in Mexico's nongovernmental organization sector. Some articles are case studies of community forest management programs in the states of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Durango, Quintana Roo, and Guerrero. Others provide broader historical and contemporary overviews of various aspects of community forest management. As a whole, this volume clearly establishes that the community forest sector in Mexico is large, diverse, and has achieved unusual maturity in doing what communities in the rest of the world are only beginning to explore: how to balance community income with forest conservation. In this process, Mexican communities are also managing for sustainable landscapes and livelihoods.

Author : Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalyana Mitra: Volume 10 written by Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume X: Tribalore and Folklore Studies contains 36 articles contributed by scholars of eminence in the field. The topics covered in the volume include Folk and Tribalore, economic life of Koya tribe, traditional knowledge of Santal community, impact of Christianity on Indian Tribes, Chenchus of Nallamalais, Kotha tribe of Odisha, Tribal revolt, Folk dances, Folk Theatre, Folk songs and singers, folk literature, narratives and Folk and tribal festivals. The volume serves as a source book for the students, research scholars and teachers of Folk and Tribalore. This volume also highlights the love and affection of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy enjoys in the intellectual world. The felicitation Volume is brought out in a series of 12 independent books covering a total of 460 articles. Every volume contains two sections. The first section contains the biographical sketch of Prof.P.Chenna Reddy, his achievements and contribution to archaeology, history and Society. The second section of each volume is subject specific, E.g., Volume-I on Archaeology, Volume II on Early and Medieval Indian History, Volume III on Modern Indian History, Volume IV on Epigraphy and Numismatics, Volume V on Art , Volume VI on Architecture, Volume VII on Religion and Philosophy, Volume VIII on Economy, Trade and Commerce, Volume IX on Literature, Volume X Tribalore and Folklore, Volume XI Contemporary India and Diaspora, Volume XII, Tourism and contains as many as 460 articles and contributed by renowned scholars

Author : Stephen Robert Harrison
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782543848
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Farm Forestry in the Tropics written by Stephen Robert Harrison and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The text is valuable in that it describes tropical small-scale farm forestry and the complex interrelationships between social, economic, and biological issues quite well . . . For readers interested in tropical forestry in a developed nation, the book is a detailed and excellent source of information.' - Matthew Pelkki, Natural Resources Journal There has been an increased awareness of the need to establish and maintain small-scale forestry in tropical countries. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these plantations can contribute if managed successfully. This book examines the constraints that limit the development of small-scale forestry in tropical environments and how they can be overcome.