The use and usefulness of inventory-based management planning to forest management: evidence from community forestry in Nepal
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The use and usefulness of inventory-based management planning to forest management : evidence from community forestry in Nepal. / Toft, Maja Nastasia Juul; Adeyeye, Yemi; Lund, Jens Friis.
I: Forest Policy and Economics, Bind 60, 2015, s. 35-49.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The use and usefulness of inventory-based management planning to forest management
T2 - evidence from community forestry in Nepal
AU - Toft, Maja Nastasia Juul
AU - Adeyeye, Yemi
AU - Lund, Jens Friis
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper examines the use and usefulness of inventory-based management planning to practical forest management in processes of community forestry in Nepal. The paper is based on case studies in four Community-Forestry User Groups (CFUG) in the mid-Hills of Nepal and draws upon semi-structured interviews, participatory rural appraisal exercises and analyses of aerial photographs. First, we find that the operational plans supposed to guide community-level management are based on sub-standard forest inventories, which limits their potential role in practical forest management. Second, we find that community-level managers do not rely on the operational plans in their practical forest management. Finally, we find that community-level forest managers in these four cases have managed to conserve their community forests over time and appear knowledgeable about the developments in the condition of their forests in the sense that their impressions of past and current forest condition are mirrored in what we can observe from analysis of change in forest condition based on aerial photographs. Based on these results we question the usefulness of inventory-based management planning in the context of community forestry.
AB - This paper examines the use and usefulness of inventory-based management planning to practical forest management in processes of community forestry in Nepal. The paper is based on case studies in four Community-Forestry User Groups (CFUG) in the mid-Hills of Nepal and draws upon semi-structured interviews, participatory rural appraisal exercises and analyses of aerial photographs. First, we find that the operational plans supposed to guide community-level management are based on sub-standard forest inventories, which limits their potential role in practical forest management. Second, we find that community-level managers do not rely on the operational plans in their practical forest management. Finally, we find that community-level forest managers in these four cases have managed to conserve their community forests over time and appear knowledgeable about the developments in the condition of their forests in the sense that their impressions of past and current forest condition are mirrored in what we can observe from analysis of change in forest condition based on aerial photographs. Based on these results we question the usefulness of inventory-based management planning in the context of community forestry.
KW - Community forestry
KW - Forest inventory
KW - Knowledge
KW - Decentralization
KW - Asia
U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.06.007
DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.06.007
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 35
EP - 49
JO - Forest Policy and Economics
JF - Forest Policy and Economics
SN - 1389-9341
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ID: 162375425