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and Karnataka is lagging behind in activating the decentralized planning process. Although AP Government has passed Conformity Act as soon as 7J'd Constitutional Amendment Act was enacted, most of the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Conformity Act have not been made into concrete reality even today i.e., more than after a decade and half of decentralization experience in Andhra Pradesh.The functional devolution states of Andhra Pradesh as compared to some of the well performing states make it clear that AP has not done well in devolving functions, finances and functionaries envisaged in the J J 1 h Schedule of the Constitution.Andhra Pradesh Government, despite its prolonged commitment to strengthen planning process, has finally brought the District Planning Act, 2005. However, the guidelines of the working of the DPCs have yet to be formulated to make these institutions functional. Our article addresses overview of decentralization status in AP in general and decentralized planning process in particular. Background and ContextANDHRA PRADESH unlike states like Kerala, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka is lagging behind in activating the decentralised planning process. Although AP government has passed Conformity Act as

Concern for global warming has focused attention on the role of tropical forests in the reduction of ambient CO2 levels and mitigation of climate change. Deforestation is a major land use change in the tropics, with forest resources undergoing degradation through the influence of logging and conversion to other uses. Land use change is a product of varied local and regional resource use policies. Management of forest resources is one such major temporal factor, influencing resource stability and the carbon pool. Under a given management policy, both the long period of forest growth, and the slow turnover and decay of the carbon pool, enhance the relevance of stand level management policies as cost‐effective mechanisms mitigating climate change. Apart from regional level uncertainties like the nature of land use and the estimation of carbon storage in vegetation and soil, the carbon flux of tropical forests is greatly influenced by uncertainty in regenerative capacity of forests and in harvest and management policies. A case study from India is used to develop a transition matrix model of natural forest management, and to explore the economic implications of maintaining and expanding existing carbon sinks. The study further explores the significance of investments in additional carbon sinks in plantation forests, given continued uncertainty in natural forest management.

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