Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers for Sustainable Development of India

Ulaganathan Sankar ()
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Ulaganathan Sankar: Honorary Professor, Madras School of Economics, Chennai

Working Papers from Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India

Abstract: The Forest Rights Act 2006 aimed at correcting the historic injustice done to scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers by giving usufruct rights on certain forest resources and associating them in forest management. This paper reviews implementation of the Act and other supportive measures taken by the government towards achieving the goals of carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation and increase in livelihood opportunities of the dwellers. This paper argues that if the dwellers services are fully available as guardians of forests, they can generate many external benefits, some are at local level, some at regional level, and a few at global level. Hence, this paper suggests a few additional supportive measures for empowering and incentivizing STs and OTFDs to invest in forest ecosystem assets to achieve these multiple goals.

Keywords: biodiversity; community forestry; eco restoration; forest rights; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q23 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2024-07
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