Essays about: "Community Based Forestry"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 24 essays containing the words Community Based Forestry.

  1. 11. Enkätundersökning om markägares intresse av skogsbruk på öar i Uppland

    University essay from SLU/School for Forest Management

    Author : Oscar Holmgren; [2019]
    Keywords : skärgård; skogsåtgärder; naturvård;

    Abstract : This degree project comprises a study of the conditions for forest owners on islands in the Grönö archipelago in northern Uppland in Sweden. The land on the islands is owned partly by private landowners, the company BillerudKorsnäs and the Grönö village community. This adds up to a total of 15 landowners. READ MORE

  3. 12. Carbon forestry and local livelihoods : a case study on poverty in Uganda

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Tove Ellingsen; [2017]
    Keywords : local livelihoods; capitals; Uganda; villagers; perception;

    Abstract : Green Resources is one of the largest companies engaged in carbon forestry on the African continent. The Green Resources carbon forestry plantation in northern Uganda is a particularly interesting case in a Swedish perspective, because the Swedish Energy Agency is committed to buying its carbon emissions reductions within a clean development mechanism (CDM) project under the Kyoto protocol. READ MORE

  4. 13. By whose rules, for whose needs? The power of elites, livelihood implications and potential for resistance in two Nepalese community forest user groups

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : Constantin Harrer; [2017]
    Keywords : community forestry; power; recentralization; professionalization; elite capture; livelihoods; resistance; Nepal;

    Abstract : The Nepalese community forestry program entitles user groups to autonomously manage their forest within the confines of an officially approved operational plan. While widely considered a conservation success, recent discourses on elite capture, professionalization and recentralization question the program’s anticipated social outcomes. READ MORE

  5. 14. Formulering och utvärdering av renskötselanpassad skogsskötsel med integrerad geografisk information från beteslandsindelning

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Resource Management

    Author : Adam Lundström; [2016]
    Keywords : ren; samråd; samrådsunderlag; renskötsel; landskapsperspektiv; renskötselanpassad skogsskötsel; Heureka PlanVis;

    Abstract : Rennäringen och skogsnäringen verkar inom samma geografiska område. För renskötseln är vinterbetet en flaskhals där tillgången till marklavsbete är avgörande. Sedan introduktionen av trakthyggesbruk under 1950-talet i Sverige så har arealen skogsmark av lavtyp (>50% lavtäckning) minskat med 71 %. READ MORE

  6. 15. The slippery slopes of forest governance in the Chure range : a case study of an intervention of environmental development within local forest management in Nepal

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Hanna Bjärnlid; [2016]
    Keywords : governance; governmentality; interventions; Nepal; community forestry; rural development;

    Abstract : Nepal has been portrayed as a leading country in implementing community forestry, a forest management method which puts the responsibility of forest management on local communities to mitigate forest degradation. The socioeconomically important and geologically fragile Chure range, where a third of forest is managed by community forest groups, has received special political attention the last few years and due to reported environmental degradation across the area. READ MORE