Transaction costs of community‐based forest management: empirical evidence from Tanzania

By C. Meshack, Bhim Ahdikari, N. Doggart, J. Lovett. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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• Participatory forest management in Tanzania : 1993-2009 : lessons learned and experiences to date (2009, background): “Lessons Learned and Experiences to Date Page 43 Meshack et al., (2006) assessed the distribution of JFM costs and benefits in four villages in the East Usambara Mountains and established that the relative balance between costs and benefits varies between income groups as illustrated in Figure 8.”
• Managing the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa: Policies, Incentives and Options for the Rural Poor (2010, unknown): “( 2006 ) record the high transaction costs of local control, suggesting that they are highest for the poorest and that policies and legislation need to be simplified to reduce them.”
• Community-based Monitoring of Natural Resource Use and Forest Quality in Montane Forests and Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania (2005, background): “A key element of the new Tanzanian Forest Policy (URT 1998) and Forest Act (URT 2002) is the devolution of ownership of and management responsibilities over forest resources to local communities (URT 1998; Wily and Dewees 2001).”
• Participatory Forest Management in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania: Who Benefits? (2009, result): “The asset status among well-being groups Findings of the well-being ranking conducted in the nine case study communities showed considerable overlap in the characteristics that were considered by community members to define relative poverty and wealth and are similar to those found in a separate stu”
• Are we getting there? Evidence of decentralized forest management from the Tanzanian Miombo woodlands (2008, background): “A number of studies use peoples’ perceptions rather than inventory data to ‘document’ effects of community forestry on forest condition (Agrawal and Yadama 1997, Varughese 1999, Gibson et al. 2005, Meshack et al. 2006 ) i. In their extensive review of experiences with col laborative forest manageme”