With this text, the contributors present fresh perspectives on the conceptual and empirical problems involved in participatory approaches to forest management for regeneration in India.
With this text, the contributors present fresh perspectives on the conceptual and empirical problems involved in participatory approaches to forest management for regeneration in India.
Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have ar…
This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some experiments testing centralised and local management of natural resources to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach.