Title :

"Forests", Agrarian landscapes and public policies in the Central Western Ghats of South India

Author(s) :

Menon, Ajit [Auteur]
Hinnewinkel, Christelle [Auteur]
Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société - ULR 4477 [TVES]
Guillerme, Sylvie [Auteur]
Géographie de l'environnement [GEODE]
Laval, Marie [Auteur]
AgroParisTech
Garcia, Claude [Auteur]
Ressources forestières et politiques publiques [UPR Ressources forestières]

Conference title :

12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons Governing shared resources : connecting local experience to global challenges

City :

Gloucestershire

Country :

Royaume-Uni

Start date of the conference :

2008-07-14

Book title :

12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons Governing shared resources : connecting local experience to global challenges

Publication date :

2008

English keyword(s) :

South India
Central Western Ghats
decentralization
forest policiy
agrarian landscapes

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Géographie

English abstract : [en]

Decentralization policies around forest management in developing countries such as India have received a large amount of attention in the recent past. But invariability analysis has been limited to the specificities of ...
Show more >Decentralization policies around forest management in developing countries such as India have received a large amount of attention in the recent past. But invariability analysis has been limited to the specificities of policies and to what extent they have provided forest produce benefits or not to forest-dependent communities. Public policies around forests must be contextualized and analysed in abroader historical context that attempts to understand what 'forests" mean to local communities in their segmented forms and how such policies have been part of a wider process of transformation of the agrarian landscape. This paper based on on-going research in three states of the Western Ghats of South India examines the historical transformation of the agrarian landscape and how recent public policies in the name of decentralization often fall short not only in their implementation but also in their vision. Hence, while decentralized forest management might open up spaces for communities to adress some of their forest needs in particular contexts, they are as likely to marginalize other needs in the process of redefining the agrarian landscape in the name of environemental management.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société (TVES) - ULR 4477

Source :

Harvested from HAL