Politics of Co-optation: Self-organized Community Forest Management and Joint Forest Management in Orissa, India
Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The thesis considers the impact of introducing government co-management policy in the form of Joint Forest Management (JFM) in an area with a five-decade-old self- organized community forest management (CFM) system in Nayagarh District, Orissa, India.The objectives are: 1) to understand the nature of participation and the bundle of forest commons rights under community management vs.JFM arrangements; 2) to explore the impact of the shift from community management to joint forest management on cross-scale linkages and reciprocal rights; 3) to analyze the mechanisms by which decision-making power and control have changed, and effects of this on the adaptive ability of the community to resolve its own forest related problems.The objectives were addressed primarily through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions along with participatory methods and tools.The study compared the status of the bundle of forest commons rights and participation of local community members in the decision-making processes under both self-organized CFM and JFM, and the implications of this conversion for cross-scale linkages.Forest and institution management mechanisms developed under the selforganized CFM system v/ere critical for both bundle of rights and peoples' participation.Two major changes were encountered: a) bundle of forest commons rights became restricted and the level of villagers' participation decreased moving from self-organized CFM to JFM; b) the self-organized CFM system had its own cross-scale links for reciprocal rights with other villages; JFM, by contrast, did not provide enough room for these linkages.The study also analyzed the status of decision-making power in the lll
Source: Mspace (University of Manitoba)
Author: Prateep Kumar Nayak
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2183128976