Decentralisation and forest management in Latin America: towards a working model
By A. Larson. 2003
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The particular characteristics of natural resources make the decentralisation of their management to elected local governments even more complex than the decentralisation of services and infrastructure. Nevertheless natural resources are equally important to rural development concerns in the Third World. Numerous countries have begun to implement policies for some form of decentralisation involving natural resources and the environment and many local governments are already making decisions that affect the future of local resources. This article reviews experiences with decentralisation of forest management in Bolivia Brazil Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua. Based on those experiences it proposes a working model for more effective decentralisation strategies. The model addresses the legal structure for decentralised forest management and relevant variables that define the local decision-making sphere as well as key mediating factors that also affect outcomes. Most of these variables even in the local sphere offer important sites for policy and aid intervention. (authors)
Subfields: Development, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations
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Citations in the corpus
- Decentralization, forests and livelihoods: Theory and narrative (2007, background): “CBNRM is said to have the potential to improve livelihoods while resulting in positive ecological outcomes (Ribot, 2002b; Larson, 2003).”
- Changing to Gray: Decentralization and the Emergence of Volatile Socio-Legal Configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia (2004, background): “Moreover, legal frameworks for natural resource management involve nesting local rules within larger scales, and this complexity heightens the likelihood that legal arrangements will be contradictory (Larson, 2003).”