Locally Perceived Social and Biophysical Factors Shaping the Effective Implementation of Community Forest Management Operations in Nepal

Puri, Lila; Nuberg, Ian; Ostendorf, Bertram; Cedamon, Edwin

doi:10.1007/s11842-020-09438-5

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“…Nevertheless, recently several studies have demonstrated that restrictions on the use of natural resources have negative behavior among the rural residents who rely on the forest for their livelihood, which creates a lot of hurdles for the management of forests [1][2][3][4][5]. The mountainous rural area resident's major source of income is from the forest resources; therefore, the economic incentive from forests directs rural residents toward deforestation [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Therefore, comprehensive attention is needed to understand the relationship between rural residents, economic incentives, and forest conservation.…”

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Predicting Behavioral Intention of Rural Inhabitants toward Economic Incentive for Deforestation in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

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The conservation of forest in the northern areas of Pakistan is the major priority of the national environmental policy to fight against global warming. Despite the policy for the protection of forest, rural residents’ behavior toward economic incentives for deforestation may undermine their conservation goals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand the factors that affect the illegal behaviors related to deforestation in the northern areas of Pakistan. The present study applied the socio-psychological theory of planned behavior to predict the behavioral intention of rural residents toward economic incentives for deforestation. Correlations were explored between background factors toward motivations for deforestation based on positive and negative views through open-ended questions. Attitude and descriptive norm were found good predictors to perceive the behaviors. The findings of the study suggest that rural communities’ support for compliance with policies is vital for the long-term efficacy and protection of the forest in the region. Further, change in the behaviors of inhabitants toward the ecosystem through training can be improved to manage the forest.

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Predicting Behavioral Intention of Rural Inhabitants toward Economic Incentive for Deforestation in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

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“…Following decades of restricted felling and rudimentary harvest planning, both plantations and natural secondary forests suffered from intense canopy competition, which led to the stagnation of growth, wasted timber resources [64,65,92] and suppressed the establishment of an understory that could provide non-timber products [66,90,91]. The forest administration, forest users and academics increasingly came to the consensus that this passive management approach had failed to efficiently generate forest products and benefit communities [32,65,67,88,92,[102][103][104][105] and the national economy [60,103,106,107].…”

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“…One approach to developing appropriate technologies required to establish multipurpose management, featuring both indigenous practices and modern silvicultural innovations, is through the aforementioned 'EnLiFT' project's approach of iterative 'collaborative action research' involving forest users and professional foresters [87,104]. Instead of promoting a particular silvicultural regime, it has brought together forest users, professional foresters and researchers to jointly develop and implement silvicultural systems that respond to the needs and capacities of the forest users through Active and Equitable Forest Management (AEFM).…”

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Lessons from Managing for the Extremes: A Case for Decentralized, Adaptive, Multipurpose Forest Management within an Ecological Framework

Timsina

Sharma

Ashton

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Multipurpose and ecological forest management frameworks are being increasingly applied across the Global North on public lands. However, the discourse and practice of public forest management in much of the developing world are captured by extreme approaches of single-crop (usually timber) production and strict canopy-cover protection, as exemplified by the case of Nepal. We combine insights from field research with published documents and trace the consequences of prevalent management regimes on the ecology and silviculture of Nepal’s public forests. We find that managing for either extreme of timber production or forest protection can degrade forest ecosystems and affect their capacity to address the increasing number of demands placed on them. A history of narrow management outlooks has erased indigenous silvicultural practices and discouraged the development of novel silvicultural solutions to address today’s environmental concerns. Government initiatives advancing singular objectives, such as Nepal’s Scientific Forest Management program, often crumble under political resistance. Forest users in Nepal are widely interested in generating diverse benefits from their forests, including non-commercial products and services, suggesting a mandate for multipurpose management. We present a decentralized adaptive modality of multipurpose management featuring a silviculture that more closely matches the ecology of forests.

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“…They have to pass through a series of steps that need to be consciously followed by the CFUG to procure a harvesting permit [52]. According to Puri et al [53], each year, CFUGs follow at least nine steps before they get final approval from the DFO for distribution and sale of the timber from their CFUGs. To achieve this, CFUGs visit this service at least 20 times to get through this process.…”

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Timber Distribution Dynamics in Scientifically Managed Community Forests: Learning from Nepal

Bhusal

Karki

Kimengsi

2020

Forests

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In a bid to address growing timber demand, irregular shelterwood system-based scientific forestry gained momentum in Nepal in 2000. While timber production, in general, is said to have witnessed an increase, the outcomes linked to equitable distribution among users remain unclear, suggesting the need for context-specific studies on the performance of scientific forestry in terms of timber distribution among users. Taking the case of the Western Terai Region of Nepal, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the patterns and implications of timber distribution under community forestry systems where scientific forest management (SciFM) is practiced. The study deployed focus group discussions (n = 4), key informant interviews, and a review of timber distribution processes for the past six fiscal years (2013–2019), the periods before and after the implementation of SciFM. For data analysis, a deductive approach was used; analytical themes were framed along the lines of timber-harvesting trends, timber distribution structure and processes, and timber distribution patterns based on wellbeing. The study revealed a substantial increase in timber harvesting; considering the base year, harvest increased by 45% in the second year and by 56% in the third year. This was, however, characterized by a 40% decrease in the average volume of timber for users within the community forest user group. Ninety-seven percent of the timber produced in this system was distributed among middle- and high-class groups, with only 3% available for poor households—this puts to question the intended objective of providing sufficient timber, especially to poor users. The paper concludes that technocentric efforts linked to increasing timber sufficiency (e.g., through SciFM) have failed to address the needs of the poorest of the poor, as elite capture prevails. We also call for future studies to explore pathways to deal with the hydra-headed nature of elite capture.

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Locally Perceived Social and Biophysical Factors Shaping the Effective Implementation of Community Forest Management Operations in Nepal

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Predicting Behavioral Intention of Rural Inhabitants toward Economic Incentive for Deforestation in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Predicting Behavioral Intention of Rural Inhabitants toward Economic Incentive for Deforestation in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Lessons from Managing for the Extremes: A Case for Decentralized, Adaptive, Multipurpose Forest Management within an Ecological Framework

Timber Distribution Dynamics in Scientifically Managed Community Forests: Learning from Nepal

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