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| Nagendra, Harini; Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University; nagendra@atree.org; Ostrom, Elinor; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University; ostrom@indiana.edu. |
| Ecologists and practitioners have conventionally used forest plots or transects for monitoring changes in attributes of forest condition over time. However, given the difficulty in collecting such data, conservation practitioners frequently rely on the judgment of foresters and forest users for evaluating changes. These methods are rarely compared. We use a dataset of 53 forests in five countries to compare assessments of forest change from forest plots, and forester and user evaluations of changes in forest density. We find that user assessments of changes in tree density are strongly and significantly related to assessments of change derived from statistical analyses of randomly distributed forest plots. User assessments of change in density at the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Carbon storage; Community forests; Forest change; Forest monitoring; Peopled forests. |
| Ano: 2011 |
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| Cameroonian community forests were designed and implemented to meet the general objectives of forest management decentralization for democratic and community management. The spread of management conflicts all over the country has shown that these broad expectations have not been met. We describe conflicts occurring in 20 community forests by types of actors and processes involved. We argue that a number of external (community vs. external actors) and internal (intra-community) conflicts are part of the causes blocking the expected outcome of Cameroonian community forests, fostering bad governance and loss of confidence. Rent appropriation and control of forest resources appear as systemic or generalized conflicts. While community forest support projects... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Cameroon; Common pool resources management; Community forests; Network analysis; Social conflicts. |
| Ano: 2011 |
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