Overview
- An evidence-based work that evaluates various CBFM practices on the basis of extensive field data sets
- Critically analyzes current CBFM practices and outlines important policy implications
- Includes detailed research methods researchers can adopt in similar studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Forests (WFSE, volume 22)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of success stories concerning several CBFM practices in different forest areas of Bangladesh, together with their respective strengths and weaknesses, it identifies sharing authority to take decision by the community as one of the main weaknesses. The other main weakness is the lack of beat level authority to coordinate with community for making the process vibrant. The book determines that it is the community patrol group which is most effective under the co-management system, yet the general body and executive committee of the co-management system are composed of different stakeholders, each of which is subject to their own work pressures, and are not as effective as claimed. There is a need to empower communities living in and around forests, and to create ownership of the forests so that theycan feel that the forests around them are by the community and for the community.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Mohammed Jashimuddin is a Professor of Forestry and Environmental Sciences at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His research interests include land use and policy analysis, tropical forest management, people-oriented forestry, co-management, ecotourism, monitoring and evaluation of forestry development projects based on realities in the field, land use, and forest and environment policy science. He has led national and international research projects, and provided consultancy services for development projects. He has authored a book on “Drivers of land use change and policy Analysis in Bangladesh: Theory and Policy Recommendations” (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011) and co-authored a book chapter on “Do the Changes of Policy Ensure Good Forest Governance? Case of Community Forestry in Bangladesh” in “Multi-level Forest Governance in Asia: Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward” (SAGE Publications, 2015).
Makoto Inoue is Professor of Forest Environmental Studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His specialty is common-pool resource governance to reflect realities in the field and combining sociology, and anthropology as well as forest policy science perspectives. He has led international research projects and edited books such as “People and Forest: Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan” (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), “Collaborative Governance of Forests: Towards Sustainable Forest Resource Utilization” (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), and “Multi-level Forest Governance in Asia: Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward” (SAGE Publications, 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh
Authors: Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
Series Title: World Forests
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42387-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42386-9Published: 09 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82567-0Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42387-6Published: 27 July 2016
Series ISSN: 0785-8388
Series E-ISSN: 1566-0427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 176
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry Management, Climate Change, Nature Conservation, Sustainable Development