| People, power and timber: the politics of community-based forest management. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 19717220 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The potential of devolved conservation to empower people, reduce poverty and protect forest resources has yet to be realized in much of the developing world. This is particularly evident in the Philippines where the central state paradoxically recentralizes political power through devolution at the policy, program and project level in forest management. We investigate how centralized state power emanates through devolved networks to affect the success of local timber utilization involving community-based forest management (CBFM) on Mindanao Island, the southern Philippines. By examining broader shifts from centralized to devolved forest management, results suggest that centralized political power continues to control and adversely affect local uses of timber through CBFM. We discuss how in the process of state authorities recentralizing devolved rights and responsibility over timber management, community-based logging operations were threatened but sustained by members relying on community-based structures and their own capabilities. The conclusion asserts that broader state processes of devolving power over timber management remains constrained by political motives and interests and so largely fails to fulfill the objectives of community-based forest management. |
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Authors:
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Juan M Pulhin; Wolfram H Dressler |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2009-08-31 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of environmental management Volume: 91 ISSN: 1095-8630 ISO Abbreviation: J. Environ. Manage. Publication Date: 2009 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-10-27 Completed Date: 2009-12-28 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0401664 Medline TA: J Environ Manage Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 206-14 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Ba??os College, Laguna, Philippines. jpulhin@yahoo.com |
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Conservation of Natural Resources* Cooperative Behavior Environment* Philippines Politics* Trees* |
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