Handover of Community Forestry: A Political Decision or a Technical Process?
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the status of community rights under Community Forestry (CF) in Nepal. It takes approval, renewal and implementation of operational plans as the basis for assessing community rights. Based on three cases-one each from the three ecological sites in Nepal, the paper examines how community rights are shaped by the regulatory framework, behaviour of the forest bureaucracy, community institutions and political constituency around the CF programme. It shows that, despite official handover of community forests, their users are restricted from exercising their rights guaranteed by the country's policies and laws. It is observed that a latent hesitation exists among government field offices to fully transfer the rights to communities. Key words: community forestry, rights, operational plan, handover, regulatory framework. Full text is available at the ForestAction website Journal of Forest and Livelihood 7(1) December 2008 pp.27-35
Source: Journal of Forest and Livelihood
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1512999131