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Attitudes and institutions: contrasting experiences of Joint Forest Management in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2004

ZAKIR HUSAIN  and
RABINDRA N. BHATTACHARYA
ZAKIR HUSAIN
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. E-mail: [email protected]
RABINDRA N. BHATTACHARYA
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Kalyani University, India.
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Abstract

The growing disenchantment with state management of natural resources has led to increasing reliance on co-management. This involves devolution of the rights to manage and control access to the resource from the state to the resource appropriators. Co-management has been introduced in many Third World countries with varying success. Co-management programmes have typically assumed that the resource community wants to conserve the resource and is prevented from doing so by their inability to form a collective choice arena. Hence such programmes have attempted to provide a collective choice arena. However, these attempts overlook the need to change the attitudes of resource users and create a demand for the resource regime. In this paper we have presented two case studies of Joint Forest Management in India to illustrate this point.

Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 563 - 577
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The field surveys were part of a World Bank funded Ministry of Environment and Forests, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Project. The authors wish to thank Sarmila Banerjee for her suggestions.