Overview
- Provides a better understanding of the current challenges and reasons why dryland forest is critical for sustainable development of dryland areas
- Takes a critical look at gender and social diversity as an analytical dimension to look at dryland forest use and management
- Provides a number of case studies of hitherto unknown or rarely reported uses of dryland forest
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This volume provides new insights and conceptual understandings of the human and gender dimension of vulnerability in relation to the dynamics of tenure reforms in the dryland forests of Asia and Africa. The book analyzes the interaction between biophysical factors such as climate variability (e.g. droughts) with socio-political processes (e.g. new institutions and authority) and gender dimensions at various temporal and spatial scales. The book presents a number of case studies based on empirical research on forest tenure reform and it consequences on forest-dependent people. In particular, it highlights the interaction between legal, policy and institutional reform and the inclusion and/or exclusion of local people from deriving benefits from forest resources in the drylands. The book focuses on the questions how land tenure reform and natural resource governance impacts upon marginal groups (along individual, collective and gender dimensions); how do forest-dependent people prepare for and respond to vulnerability; and what is the effect of forest tenure policy reform on the human rights, gender and citizenship issues in relation to the use and management of forest resources and on conflict in forest zones. These issues are approached from the perspective of marginalized groups (gender and social diversity such as indigenous peoples and herders) in vulnerable dryland forests with a high risk of being exposed to climate variability.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Looking Forward: Dryland Landscape
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Communal Land Tenure Governance
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Collective Management of Natural Resources
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Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dryland Forests
Book Subtitle: Management and Social Diversity in Africa and Asia
Editors: Purabi Bose, Han van Dijk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19405-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19404-2Published: 17 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79275-0Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19405-9Published: 08 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 167
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour