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The volume focuses on the complex issues involved in bringing about democratic governance of forests in India. It deals with the shift in the forestry debate from how to conserve forests to how to afforest wasteland. It probes questions relating to the stakeholders and their rights and the process for converting to non-forest land. The chapters cover a range of themes including relevance of the Joint Forest Management programme, the contribution of the Forest ...
Non-governmental organisations, as part of civil society, have come to play a prominent role in South Asia in the contexts of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). Community-Based Natural Resource Management : Issues and Cases from South Asia examines the theory and practice of NGO-driven CBNRM keeping in mind existing critiques of dominant discourses of development, the micro-politics of decentralisation and the projectisation of community ...