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Replication data for: Cameroon’s Environmental Impact Assessment Decree and Public Participation in Concession-Based Forestry: An Exploratory Assessment of Eight Forest-Dependent Communities

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Title Replication data for: Cameroon’s Environmental Impact Assessment Decree and Public Participation in Concession-Based Forestry: An Exploratory Assessment of Eight Forest-Dependent Communities
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/23617
 
Creator Alemagi, Dieudonne et. al.
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description This paper examines the degree to which public participation in concession-based forestry decision-making - as outlined by the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Decree (No. 2005/0577/PM)-is taking place in eight forest-dependent communities of Cameroon. Of the total respondents that took part in the survey, only 39 per cent stated that they were involved in decisions concerning concession-based forestry. Furthermore, there seems to be a generally negative perception on the part of local communities towards the government’s implementation of public participation legislation in concession-based forestry decision-making. Obstacles to public decision-making process are identified and recommendations are proffered for more effective public participation.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Public participation
Forest management
Cameroon
Forest-dependent communities
 
Date 2013-09-11
 
Type Survey