community forestry
The Institute of Forestry/Tribhuvan University, is organizing the International Conference on Forests, People and Climate: Changing Paradigm in collaboration with the Department of Forest Research and Survey/Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Nepal and Forest and Landscape/University of Copenhagen, Denmark with a theme “Forest for livelihood prosperity in the face of climate change.”...
Community forestry is a well established management form in Nepal. The success of community forestry in improving the forest condition encouraged the government to initiate some developmental works beyond the fulfillment of only basic forestry needs. This paper seeks to explore the investment made by CFUGs in community infrastructures and their priorities as well. Primary data from three mid-...
Apart from physical products, community forests (CF) in Nepal generate various ecosystem services that could be important not only to the stakeholders at local level, but also to the stakeholders at the regional and the global levels. Water supply from CF would be one of the many ecosystem services whose benefits are provided to the stakeholders. Considering the economic importance of water...
The natural forests of Pakistan are mostly located in the hilly areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)1, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Northern Areas. These forests are vanishing at a rate that is one of highest2 in the world (FAO, 2007) and forest depletion is one of the most serious environmental concerns for Pakistan since it is accompanied by many...
The forests in northwestern Pakistan are being threatened. They will survive only if the population and the local authorities can manage to work together constructively to solve problems. A research project shows how the difficult relationship between them can be improved.
A study was conducted to identify the role of community forests in the conservation of faunal diversity in various community forests practiced in the Satbariya Range Post of Dang district. The study aimed to understand and evaluate the role of community forests in biodiversity, especially faunal conservation efforts. Different methods such as questionnaire survey, group discussion and...
Main objectives of this study were to estimate annual fuelwood demand in Community Forest Users Group (CFUG), and annual sustainable supply of the same from Community Forest (CF). Study was done each one community forest of Terai and Hills; Shanti Community Forest (SCF), Saljhandi, Rupandehi (Terai) and Barangdikol Community Forest (BCF), Madanpokhara, Palpa (Hill), in Western Development...
Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming. Interest in the potential of avoided deforestation has been growing and solutions to the problems are currently being worked out through the development of proposed mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) called Reducing Emission Thorough Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). This paper argues that...
The paper is exploring the problem, situation and relation between the ecosystem management approached and Community Forestry (CF) management system of Nepal, has recommended further step to adopt ecosystem management approached in CF in Nepal. Thirty four percent of total forest of country has already handover to user as the CF. Out of them near about one percent of community forests are...
The paper has two-fold objectives as follows: (i) furnish briefly the conceptual understanding of the anthropology of natural resources management vis-a-vis the theoretical underpinnings for managing the 'commons', and (ii) present an analytical discussion on the experience of the evolution of the elements of social learning approach for the sustained management of forest as a 'commons...
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