People elephants and forests: collective action to manage an environmental wicked problem in Kodagu, Western Ghats
For the last twenty years the international discourse on natural resources management has promoted communities' participation in arder to achieve sustainable development and conservation of natural resources. The lndian Central Government approved and promoted this concepts and principles and subsequently introduced corresponding rules and measures through its 1988 National Forest Policy and its guidelines on Joint Forest Management enabling village communities to take part actively in forest management and to get a share from forest resources. To understand the interactions between those public policies and the rural practices and initiatives we have focus on Chennayanakote village in Kodagu district (Karnataka State). Kodagu's collective action for natural resources management assumes two shapes that we described as 'imposed' and 'chosen' participation. The impacts of those types of collective actions on the ecosystems, the people's livelihood and governance are different. lt appeared that the actions conducted by the chosen participation are more effective with regard to ecological concerns (conservation NGOs) or livelihood concerns (empowerments NGOs) than the actions conducted in the framework of 'imposed participation' (Eco-Development Committees and Village Forest Committees) trying to do both with lesser success.
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| Format: | thesis biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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AgroParisTech
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| Subjects: | P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales, E51 - Population rurale, L20 - Écologie animale, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/577091/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/577091/1/LAVAL-2008-%20elephants%20and%20forest.pdf |
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