It would be no exaggeration to say that the study of forests as commons has been central to
the development of scholarship on common property. Equally certainly, the interest in forests …

We investigate determinants of household firewood collection in rural Nepal, using 1995–96
and 2002–3 World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data. We …

The lack of concrete instances in which conservation and development have been
successfully merged has strengthened arguments for strict exclusionist conservation …

More than half of the natural vegetation in Mexico is managed collectively within common
property systems. The appropriation and continuity of government programs related to the …

Sri Lanka's community forestry (CF) program emerged in the early 1980s following a global
trend to conserve forest resources and provide benefits to the local community. However …

This paper contributes to a long-standing debate in development practice: under what
conditions can externally established participatory groups engage in the collective …

Community-led service delivery is an effective method of providing basic needs to
populations and, at times, the only option. Yet, despite attempts by development …

Résumé Cet article s' intéresse à la dégradation des forêts dans l'Himalaya indien, qui a
pour conséquences une érosion des sols spectaculaire et l'enlisement des grands fleuves …

Due to the different factors and complexity of their effects on healthy and sustainability of
urban forest, this study has been tried by means of determining effective factors in …

Environmentalists and conservationists have often advocated communal control of natural
resources as a way to ensure its judicious and sustainable use (Colchester, 1994; Kothari …