Legal-sounding bureaucratic re-centralisation of community forestry in Nepal
| Autor: | Ridish K. Pokharel, Lok Nath Lamsal, Santosh Rayamajhi, Thorsten Treue, Bijendra Basnyat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Centralisation
Economics and Econometrics Government Sociology and Political Science business.industry Corporate governance Forest product Forest management Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies Stakeholder 021107 urban & regional planning Forestry 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public administration 01 natural sciences Certified wood Community forestry Economics business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Forest Policy and Economics. 91:5-18 |
| ISSN: | 1389-9341 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.08.010 |
| Popis: | Exactly how do forest bureaucracies manoeuvre to regain power and maximise benefits in the bewildering legal, financial, and administrative field of forest decentralisation? Based on a review of thirty management plans, stakeholder consultations, intensive interactions with six forest user groups, forest officials, and donor project employees in Nepal, we document the mechanisms of legal-sounding re-centralisation. The central tenet is that bureaucratically established procedures, which are not required by law but treated as if they were, are used to impose regular revisions of community forest management plans. Meagre government or more generous donor budgets financed the revisions. Forest bureaucrats and/or consultants did the work and benefitted financially. None of the approaches, however, lived up to technical, scientific standards or followed stipulated participatory processes. The revised plans were almost identical to their previous versions and differences mostly a result of mere desk exercises to fulfil donor requirements and government orders, at least on paper. While legitimised by a perceived promotion of rational, technical sound, and equitable forest governance, the main function of plan revisions appears to be strengthening or re-establishing the forest bureaucracy's control over community forest resources which allows forest bureaucrats to tap into donor project and forest product value chains. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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