Production efficiency of community forest management in Nepal

Chand, Narendra; Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Bigsby, Hugh R.

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2014.09.001

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“…For example, Chhatre and Agrawal (2009) found positive synergies between carbon and forest product extraction in larger CFs when sustainable resource use practices were adopted. Similarly, Chand et al (2015) found a positive relationship between forest products and carbon, and the authors argued that managing CFs for certain forest products may enhance carbon.…”

Section: Relationships Between Carbon and Forest Productsmentioning

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Trade-offs and synergies between carbon, forest diversity and forest products in Nepal community forests

2016

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SUMMARYReducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, the sustainable management of forests and the conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (‘REDD+’) aims to improve local livelihoods and conserve plant diversity while limiting carbon emissions. Yet trade-offs and synergies that exist between supporting livelihoods, protecting plant diversity and maintaining forest ecosystem services are poorly documented. We used forest inventory data and community-group records to assess trade-offs and synergies between carbon, plant diversity and forest products in 19 community forests managed under REDD+ in Nepal. Trade-offs were prevalent for carbon, whereby community forests with relatively high carbon values had relatively low values for plant diversity or forest products provision, and vice versa. Synergies occurred between plant diversity and forest products provision (fuelwood and fodder), suggesting that forests with relatively high plant diversity values were also important for providing critical forest products to local communities. This study shows that conserving forests for carbon should not impinge greatly on the flow of forest resources to at least some local communities; however, promoting carbon storage will not necessarily protect plant diversity. These findings should help guide future REDD+ policy for community forests.

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Section: Relationships Between Carbon and Forest Productsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Trade-offs and synergies between carbon, forest diversity and forest products in Nepal community forests

2016

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“…Several factors may affect the level of social capital; therefore, there is a need to identify and analyze the relationships between these factors. Several studies focus on social capital and community-based forest resource management (Djamhuri 2008;Akiefnawati et al 2010;Garcia-Amado et al 2012;Chand et al 2015). Djamhuri (2008) determined that social capital facilitates the effectiveness of collective actions in forest security and benefit sharing in forest management by Javanese rural communities.…”

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“…Garcia-Amado et al (2012) found that social networks facilitate the effective management of natural resource management, but do not guarantee its long-term success. Furthermore, Chand et al (2015) estimated the production efficiency of community forestry in Nepal. They examined social capital, finding that it contributed positively to production efficiency.…”

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Measuring social capital in Indonesian community forest management

Lee

Rianti²,

Park

2017

Forest Science and Technology

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Social capital provides an overview of a community's togetherness, unity, and mutual trust in achieving common goals towards sustainable development. Community forest management requires a certain level of social capital for sustainable forest management. This study aims to identify and analyze key factors influencing the community's social capital in forest management. The key factors influencing the level of social capital in a community include internal factors such as individual characteristics and knowledge of community forest management, and external factors such as extension activities, the role of the forest farmer group, and access to information. Using the theoretical framework of social capital and multiple linear regression models, we found that social capital was significantly influenced by both internal and external factors, indicating a need to improve these factors. To increase the value of social capital for maintaining the sustainability of community forest management, the results of this Indonesian case suggest that individual characteristics, procedural knowledge of community forest management, and the role of forest farmer groups need to be considered for forest management based on the social capital of forest communities.

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“…Opinions on the effect of heterogeneity on successful resource management are highly variable (Varughese & Ostrom 2001;Bardhan & Dayton-Johnson 2002;Chand, N. Kerr & Bigsby 2015) and range from negative to positive to no effect at all. Our model presents mixed results regarding heterogeneity in general, which suggests that heterogeneity is important in different ways across different factors.…”

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Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumption

Manzoor

Rovenskaya

Muhammad

2016

Ecological Modelling

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The environmental and social attitudes of consumers can greatly affect the consumption of common-pool resources by the whole societyas demonstrated by many experimental and theoretical studies. Rooting in the current knowledge of consumer psychology, and employing the game-theoretic modelling framework, we formalise the decision making process of individuals about their resource consumption levels depending on their level of environmental concern, and relative importance placed on social and ecological information. Our model demonstrates, in a stylized fashion, how profound preference to social information can help avert free-riding behaviour and result in globally stable resource consumption dynamics. This avoids the "Tragedy of the Commons", leading to affluence in the resource stock as well as in the individual consumption. Furthermore, we find that heterogeneity of the levels of individuals' environmentalism promotes free-riding, whereas heterogeneity in relative information preferences helps avoiding tragedies. Our analysis demonstrates that accounting for heterogeneity of consumers and their social relationships can yield additional insights regarding to what kind of societies may have better chances to ensure sustainable consumption of a natural resource.

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Production efficiency of community forest management in Nepal

Cited by 32 publications

References 70 publications

Trade-offs and synergies between carbon, forest diversity and forest products in Nepal community forests

Trade-offs and synergies between carbon, forest diversity and forest products in Nepal community forests

Measuring social capital in Indonesian community forest management

Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumption

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