2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-009-9096-0
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Competing Visions: Domestic Forests, Politics and Forest Policy in the Central Western Ghats of South India

Abstract: International audienceRural people in developing countries including India continue to access a number of types of 'forests' to meet specific needs such as fuelwood, fodder, food, non-timber forest produce and timber for both subsistence and income generation. While a plethora of terms exist to describe the types of forests that rural people use—such as farm forests, social forests, community forests and small-scale for-ests—the expression domestic forest has recently been proposed. Domestic forest is a term a… Show more

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“…The district has extensive state controlled forests surrounding a complex mosaic of multistoreyed, coffee-based agroforests and rice paddies ( Fig. 1; Garcia et al 2009). …”
Section: Study Sitementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The district has extensive state controlled forests surrounding a complex mosaic of multistoreyed, coffee-based agroforests and rice paddies ( Fig. 1; Garcia et al 2009). …”
Section: Study Sitementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rural forest and sustainable development policies: towards a political ecology As noted by Menon et al (2009), "rural forests are often not autonomous local forests but the product of a complex relationship between the state and local actors mediated by public policies. And they often appear as sites of contestation between local actors and forest bureaucracies."…”
Section: Discussion: Rural Forests Between Resilience and Political mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rural forests are thus requalified through naturalist or environmental narratives that justify new development projects. Naturalization may reflect the reinforcement of sector-based logics like the community forests in Cameroon (Lescuyer 2005) or rural forests in India (Menon et al 2009). It can come along with the "greening process" of agriculture, which tends to favor environmental services at large scales rather than production at local scales like in rehabilitation of chestnut forests in France (Michon 2011).…”
Section: Discussion: Rural Forests Between Resilience and Political mentioning
confidence: 99%
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