| Framing community forestry challenges with a broader lens: Case studies from the Brazilian Amazon. | |
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PMID: 21550165 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Community forestry initiatives have been shown to reduce rural poverty while promoting the conservation and sustainable use of forests. However, a number of challenges face communities wanting to initiate or maintain formal, community-based forest management. Through a grounded theory approach, this paper uses three case studies of community forest management models in the eastern Amazon to create a framework showing challenges faced by communities at different phases of formal management. The framework shows that, in the development phase, four root problems (land ownership, knowledge acquisition, community organization, and adequate capital) need to be addressed to obtain legal management permission. With this permission in hand, further challenges to operationalization are presented (deterring illegal loggers, maintaining infrastructure, obtaining necessary managerial skills and accessing markets). The interrelatedness of these challenges emphasizes that all challenges need to be addressed in a holistic manner for communities to maintain a profitable and self-sufficient operation. This contradicts current development approaches that only address part of this framework. The framework proposed here can be used as a starting point for community forestry initiatives in other regions. |
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Reem Hajjar; David G McGrath; Robert A Kozak; John L Innes |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-5-5 |
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Title: Journal of environmental management Volume: - ISSN: 1095-8630 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 May |
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Created Date: 2011-5-9 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0401664 Medline TA: J Environ Manage Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, Forest Sciences Centre, 2nd Floor, 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, Canada. |
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