A New Moral Economy for India's Forests?; Discourses of Community and Participation

by Jeffery, Roger; Sundar, Nandini

• ISBN13: 9780761993544
• ISBN10: 0761993541
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd

Summary

'This work does repesent an important addition to the burgeoning literature on participatory forest management in South Asia' - Niaz Ahmed Khan, Contemporary South Asia This book is the first to critically assess what is fast becoming an orthodoxy - that participatory approaches to forest management in India are necessary and sufficient for a regeneration of forest resources in the country. The book argues that the processes of creating, managing and evaluating participatory approaches to forest management are complex and difficult to sustain.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	7	(1)
List of Maps and Figures	8	(1)
List of Abbreviations	9	(3)
Preface	12	(3)
Introduction	15	(40)
Nandini Sundar
Roger Jeffery
Communities, Kings and Woodlands: Historical Reflections on Joint Forest Management	55	(16)
Sumit Guha
Landlords, Regional Development and National Forestry Projects: Midnapore, 1930s--1960s	71	(21)
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Community-in-Conservation: Tracing the Outlines of an Enchanting Concept	92	(17)
Arun Agrawal
Participating in Ecodevelopment: The Case of the Great Himalayan National Park	109	(21)
Amita Baviskar
Sapangada: A Kuianka Living Space	130	(21)
Savyasaachi
`How Many Committees Do I Belong To?'	151	(30)
Shilpa Vasavada
Abha Mishra
Crispin Bates
The Western Ghats Forestry and Environmental Project in Karnataka: A Preliminary Assessment	181	(35)
N.C. Saxena
Madhu Sarin
The Need for Emancipatory Research: Experiences from JFPM in Uttara Kannada	216	(19)
Mariette Correa
Women's Representation and Roles in `Gender' Policy in Joint Forest Management	235	(19)
Catherine Locke
Implementing Joint Forest Management in the Field: Towards an Understanding of the Community--Bureaucracy Interface	254	(22)
Bhaskar Vira
Glossary	276	(3)
Bibliography	279	(20)
Notes on Contributors	299	(3)
Index	302	(3)
About the Editors	305