Attitudes and institutions: contrasting experiences of Joint Forest Management in India

Zakir Husain and Rabindra N. Bhattacharya

Environment and Development Economics, 2004, vol. 9, issue 4, 563-577

Abstract: The growing disenchantment with state management of natural resources has led to increasing reliance on co-management. This involves devolution of the rights to manage and control access to the resource from the state to the resource appropriators. Co-management has been introduced in many Third World countries with varying success. Co-management programmes have typically assumed that the resource community wants to conserve the resource and is prevented from doing so by their inability to form a collective choice arena. Hence such programmes have attempted to provide a collective choice arena. However, these attempts overlook the need to change the attitudes of resource users and create a demand for the resource regime. In this paper we have presented two case studies of Joint Forest Management in India to illustrate this point.

Date: 2004
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