Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Local Control for Improved Livelihoods, Forest Management, and Carbon Sequestration (Environment for Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138819646 ISBN 13: 9781138819641

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of devolution vary by country, all have potentially important implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services, livelihoods and climate change.

This book helps students, researchers and professionals to understand the importance and implications of these reforms for local environmental quality, climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more successful than top-down management of common pool forest resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered.

The work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda. Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces today.

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About the Author

Randall A. Bluffstone is Professor of Economics and Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University, USA and Research Associate with the Environment for Development (EfD) programme, administered from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson is Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, UK, and Research Associate with the Environment for Development (EfD) programme.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138819646
• ISBN 13: 9781138819641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Bluffstone Randall, Robinson Elizabeth J.Z.