 Contested firewood collection in Burkina Faso: Governance, perceptions, and practicesJenny Friman World Development, 2024, vol. 175, issue C Abstract: This qualitative study explores how forest governance is perceived and embodied in everyday firewood practices in two rural villages in Burkina Faso. The study specifically looks into women’s and forest guard’s perceptions of firewood collection, access to wood, and the state regulations in place. Such exploration is helpful for showing how women who rely on firewood for their livelihoods respond to and perceive regulations, the synthesizing efforts, and the environmental impacts of firewood collection. To situate the interrelations of forest institutions, perceptions, and practices, the study draws on a critical institutional and feminist political ecology approach. Such an approach sheds light on how firewood governance in Burkina Faso excludes women from deciding over a resource they rely on for everyday life. Moreover, the approach helped illuminate how management by control, monitoring, and sensitizing efforts have a questionable impact on deforestation in forest commons. Keywords: Forest governance; Feminist political ecology; Perceptions; Critical institutionalism; Firewood; Burkina Faso (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:175:y:2024:i:c:s0305750x23003133 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106495 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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