People and forests
Subtitle: communities, institutions, and governance
By: edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom
Contributors: Gibson, Clark C., 1961-; McKean, Margaret A; Ostrom, Elinor
Series: Politics, science, and the environment
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Forest management -- Social aspects; Forestry and community
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Explaining deforestation : the role of local institutions / Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom; title: Common property : what is it, what is it good for, and what makes it work? / Margaret A. McKean; title: Small is beautiful, but is larger better? Forest-management institutions in the Kumaon Himalaya, India / Arun Agrawal; title: Successful forest management : the importance of security of tenure and rule enforcement in Ugandan forests / Abwoli Y. Banana and William Gombya-Ssembajjwe; title: Optimal foraging, institutions, and forest change : a case from Nepal / Charles M. Schweik; title: A lack of institutional demand : why a strong local community in Western Ecuador fails to protect its forest / Clark C. Gibson and C. Dustin Becker; title: Indigenous forest management in the Bolivian Amazon : lessons from the Yuracaré people / C. Dustin Becker and Rosario León; title: Population and forest dynamics in the hills of Nepal : institutional remedies by rural communities / George Varughese; title: Forests, people, and governance : some initial theoretical lessons / Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, and Margaret A. McKean; title: Appendix : International forestry resources and institutions research strategy / Elinor Ostrom and Mary Beth Wertime