Changing Governance of the World's Forests

Agrawal, A and Chhatre, A and Hardin, R (2008) Changing Governance of the World's Forests. Science, 320 (5882). pp. 1460-1462. ISSN 0036-8075

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Abstract

Major features of contemporary forest governance include decentralization of forest management, logging concessions in publicly owned commercially valuable forests, and timber certification, primarily in temperate forests. Although a majority of forests continue to be owned formally by governments, the effectiveness of forest governance is increasingly independent of formal ownership. Growing and competing demands for food, biofuels, timber, and environmental services will pose severe challenges to effective forest governance in the future, especially in conjunction with the direct and indirect impacts of climate change. A greater role for community and market actors in forest governance and deeper attention to the factors that lead to effective governance, beyond ownership patterns, is necessary to address future forest governance challenges.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: The research paper was published by the author with the affiliation of University of Illinois.
Subjects: Economics
Policy
Date Deposited: 16 May 2019 15:06
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2023 20:17
URI: https://eprints.exchange.isb.edu/id/eprint/980

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