2002
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.24.3.5
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The vacillating evolution of forestry policy in Nepal: Historically manipulated, internally mismanaged

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“…Slowly, after the successful eradication of malaria in the Tarai in the 1960s, cultural synergism and mixed settlement occurred between the indigenous people and hill migrants. Following this, the more extensive farmland areas of the south spread into, and encroached upon, the forestlands located in the north (Bhattarai et al 2002), so much so that deforestation accelerated (Figs. 3a-d and 7a-c).…”
Section: Transition Matricesmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…Slowly, after the successful eradication of malaria in the Tarai in the 1960s, cultural synergism and mixed settlement occurred between the indigenous people and hill migrants. Following this, the more extensive farmland areas of the south spread into, and encroached upon, the forestlands located in the north (Bhattarai et al 2002), so much so that deforestation accelerated (Figs. 3a-d and 7a-c).…”
Section: Transition Matricesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Within this period, over 1,000 ha of vegetated areas were brought under cultivation to meet the growing demands of the increasing population, which grew from 0.255 million in 1973 to 0.412 million in 1990 (CBS 1995(CBS , 2002. Until the early 1980s, the Nepal government exported timber to India by clear-cutting many Tarai forests (Bhattarai et al 2002). Land-hungry, hill migrant families settled on these clear-cut areas, either with government sponsorship or voluntarily.…”
Section: Transition Matricesmentioning
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“…Insecure tenure and poor governance: -People in and around forestlands in Terai could not exercise secure rights to manage and benefit from forests due to vacillating policies (Bhattarai et al, 2002) and the introduction of multiple and conflicting forest management modalities (Ojha, 2008).…”
Section: Forest Governance and Drivers Of Deforestation And Forest Dementioning
confidence: 99%