Determinants of Successful Collective Management of Forest Resources: Evidence from Kenyan Community Forest Associations

Boscow Okumu and Edwin Muchapondwa

No 698, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: Participation of local communities in management and utilization of forest resources through collective action has become widely accepted as a possible solution to failure of centralized top down approaches to forest conservation. Developing countries have thus resorted to devolution of forest management through initiatives such as Participatory Forest Management (PFM) and Joint Forest Management (JFM). […]

Keywords: Biodiversity conservation; Consumer Behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 Q23 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08-01
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