Making markets work for forest communities.
By S. Scherr, Andy White, D. Kaimowitz, M. Jenkins. 2002
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public currency to influence environment and development policies (Lambin et al. 2001). While not denying a role of poverty or population growth, most case studies fail to confirm this simplification in lieu of other, more important, if complex, forces of tropical deforestation. Results of carefully structured surveys – be they qualitative (Kates and Haarmann 1992), model-oriented (Angelsen and Kaimowitz 1999), or quantitative (Geist and Lambin 2002) in nature – support the view that impoverished populations are never the sole and often not even the major underlying cause of forest-cover change. Kates and Haarmann (1992), for example, found a set of interactive processes linking poverty and environmental degradation. (Kates and Haarmann 1992). The case studies, which they explored qualitatively, told common tales of poor people’s displacement from their lands, the division of their resources, and the degradation of their environments culminating in three major spirals of household impoverishment and environmental degradation driven by combinations of development and commercialisation, population growth, poverty, and natural hazards. And, from a review of more than 100 modelling-oriented studies, Angelsen and Kaimowitz (1999) conclude that there is “little evidence on the link between deforestation and poverty. If forest clearing requires investment, rich people may in fact be in a better position to clear new forest land” (Angelsen and Kaimowitz 1999, p. 92). This implies a call for more nuanced policy interventions that reach far beyond the marginal population living in or near forests. Any universal therapy to control deforestation is therefore doomed to fail. Policies to control deforestation have to be designed for and fine tuned to local conditions. REFERENCES
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- New Rights for Forest-Based Communities? Understanding Processes of Forest Tenure Reform (2010, background): “More often, however, state policies and bureaucrats impose cumbersome and costly regulations on the use or sale of forest resources (Larson et al. 2008, Pulhin et al. forthcoming, see also Colchester et al. 2006, Larson and Ribot 2007, Scherr et al. 2002).”
- Forest Product Sale as Natural Insurance: The Effects of Household Characteristics and the Nature of Shock in Eastern Honduras (2004, background): “To date, conservationists worried about marketdriven overharvest have been widely successful in pushing for clauses in protected-area management plans that prohibit the commercialization of forest resources by local peoples (Scherr et al. 2002).”