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050 00 $aSD645$b.V55 1996
082 00 $a333.75/15/0954$221
245 00 $aVillage voices, forest choices :$bjoint forest management in India /$cedited by Mark Poffenberger, Betsy McGean.
260 $aDelhi :$bOxford University Press,$c1996.
300 $axviii, 356 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rMark Poffenberger and Betsy McGean --$gPt. I.$tThe Resurgence of Community Resource Management: Control, Conflict, and Compromise in the Forest.$g1.$tCommunities Sustaining India's Forests in the Twenty-first Century /$rMark Poffenberger, Betsy McGean and Arvind Khare.$g2.$tCommunities and the State: Re-establishing the Balance in Indian Forest Policy /$rMark Poffenberger and Chhatrapati Singh.$g3.$tDietrich Brandis and Indian Forestry: A Vision Revisited and Reaffirmed /$rRamachandra Guha.$g4.$tFarming in the Forest: The Dangs 1830-1992 /$rDavid Hardiman.$g5.$tThe Struggle for Forest Control in the Jungle Mahals of West Bengal 1750-1990 /$rMark Poffenberger --$gPt. II.$tPeople Transforming Forest Management Systems.$g6.$tFrom Conflict to Collaboration: Institutional Issues in Community Management /$rMadhu Sarin.$g7.$tIndian Forest Departments in Transition /$rSubhabrata Palit.
505 80 $g8.$tLearning to Learn: Training and Gender Sensitization in Indian Forest Departments /$rBetsy McGean, Mitali Chatterjee and S. B. Roy --$gPt. III.$tApproaches to Sustainable Forest Management.$g9.$tValuing the Forests /$rMark Poffenberger.$g10.$tEcological Stabilization and Community Needs: Managing India's Forest by Objective /$rN. H. Ravindranath, Madhav Gadgil and Jeff Campbell --$tConclusion /$rMark Poffenberger and Ajit Banerjee.
520 $aVillage Voices, Forest Choices offers the first comprehensive examination of revolutionary changes occurring in the management of India's forests. Over the past two decades, responding to scarcities, thousands of villages have taken charge of public forests, thereby controlling grazing and cutting. The result has been a striking renewal of once badly degraded ecosystems.
520 8 $aLush young secondary forests are emerging in many parts of central India, rich in biodiversity, where degrading, eroding wastelands were recently dominant. Equally remarkable, this has often happened with no outside assistance. This book looks at how this has been happening.
520 8 $aVillage Voices, Forest Choices brings good news. It chronicles the emergence of a grassroots environmental movement. Using their own resources, India's forest peoples are organizing to regain control of the ecosystems critical for their survival. The resulting regeneration of once badly degraded forests, under village protection, is impressive, presenting new opportunities to stabilize the water, soil, and forest resources upon which the nation's future depends.
520 8 $aThis book also explores the historical roots of deforestation, the alienation of tribal peoples, and their re-entry into resource management. The fourteen authors discuss the institutional, economic, ecological, and political implications of this historic transition in forest control. The writers assess how management goals for India's natural forests will change under community control, and how government agencies, scientists, and non-government organizations might respond to these shifting priorities.
520 8 $aAnyone concerned with the future of India's natural forests and tribal peoples will want this book.
650 0 $aCommunity forests$zIndia$xManagement.
650 0 $aForest management$zIndia$xCitizen participation.
700 1 $aPoffenberger, Mark,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81088184
700 1 $aMcGean, Betsy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94029303
852 00 $boff,leh$hSD645$i.V55 1996