Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources

By J. Ribot, Arun Agrawal, A. Larson. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations

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Re-politicising water governance: exploring water re-allocations in terms of justice† (2014, background): “Differently positioned actors who have different interests may struggle to shape the nature and direction of processes of decentralisation to their favour (Boelens and Zwarteveen 2005), dilute, or even block them (Ribot et al. 2006).”
Decentralization, forests and livelihoods: Theory and narrative (2007, background): “That democratic decentralization in forest management is not actually taking place in the ideal form stated in the theory has been noted in the literature (Ribot, 2002b; Larson, 2003; McCarthy, 2004; Ribot et al., 2006).”
The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods (2009, background): “For local adaptations, as in much of the less-developed world, rural people in the Greater Himalayas remain divorced from natural resource decision making (Ribot et al. 2006; Agrawal & Chhatre 2007; Larson & Soto 2008).”
Is Community Management an Efficient and Effective Model of Public Service Delivery? Lessons from the Rural Water Supply Sector in Malawi (2015, background): “Local government, meanwhile, has in many instances faced an increase in responsibilities without accompanying decentralization of resources or powers (Ribot et al., 2006).”
Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals (2017, background): “Extensive research has shown how states tend to retain power even where they apparently devolve power to lower levels of decision making, and in their efforts to seek to correct and limit elite capture, and prevent the overuse and illegal use of resources.(65,72) One of the goals of polycentric regi”
The forbidden fuel: Charcoal, urban woodfuel demand and supply dynamics, community forest management and woodfuel policy in Malawi (2010, neutral): “In Uganda and Senegal vested interests have allowed forest bureaucracies to retain authority over commercial forest/woodfuel rights—hence sidelining communities—despite permissive CBFM laws (Ribot, 2009; Ribot and Agrawal, 2006).”