THE Government of India has issued a pamphlet of sixty-five pages, entitled The Work of the Forest Department of India, by Mr. R. S. Troup. This gives in popular form, and at the low price of 5i, an account of the forests of India, and of the methods by which they are protected...
Forest management and policy have been a subject of considerable debate and conflict ever since the British established a Forest Department in India and enacted legislations related to forestry in the 19th century. The splendid needs dictated the British interests in the Indian forest resources, ...
(3) How does the role of the forest department bureaucracy affect the performance of the decentralized forest management bodies? This question helped us move from the operational level to the collective choice level (Ostrom 1990). Many studies show that the operational rules are important to ...
Says State has no elephant population PANJIM: As the Union Government is bracing up for three-day synchronized National Elephant Census in six States including Goa, the Forest Department has said that 'State has no elephant population and the jumbos who come down here usually migrate from the ...
Moreover, we acknowledge supplemental research support from the Department of Ecology and Environmental Studies in The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University. Funding Notre Dame Research and the Environmental Change Initiative and Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame....
Instead of increasing women's empowerment, the top-down interventions of a World Bank funded forestry project in Uttarakhand are doing the opposite by disrupting and marginalizing their own struggles and achievements, transferring power and authority to the forest department and local elite men. A ...
As a precautionary measure, the forest department has banned tourist movement into the area. "We are closely monitoring the forest fire in Bandipur. The forest minister is overseeing the situation, while officials and fire service personnel are trying to contain the blaze. I have instructed offici...
Local versus expert knowledge in forest management in a semi-arid part of India This study analyzes the differences between the villagers' and the Forest Department's preferences in the choice of tree species to be planted in eastern R... NU Sekhar - 《Land Degradation & Development》 被引量...
India's Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme is among the first and largest initiatives for collaborative forest governance worldwide. In JFM, the state, represented by the Forest Department (FD), and the village community share responsibilities and benefits of jointly protecting and managing fore...
change environmentally harmful behavior when forest-dependent activities are economically beneficial, and that participatory approaches under IEP have resulted in positive changes in the lifestyle of the Maldharis and enhanced relationships with the forest department but have failed to improve conservation. ...