Local Forest Management
Subtitle: The Impacts of Devolution Policies
Contributors: David Edmunds (Editor); Eva Wollenberg (Editor)
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781844070220
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; Nature; Forest Policy; Technology & Industrial Arts; Nature/Ecology; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Agriculture - Forestry; Technology / Agriculture / Forestry; China; General; India; Philippines
First sentence: During the 1980s, a confluence of political pressures began to force or encourage central governments to devolve natural resource management to local individuals and institutions located within and outside of the government: Overextended government bureaucracies began to look for ways to cut costs.