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Trends in Latin American forestry decentralisations: legal frameworks, municipal governments and forest dependent groups

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Title Trends in Latin American forestry decentralisations: legal frameworks, municipal governments and forest dependent groups
 
Creator Larson, A.M.
Pacheco, P.
Toni, F.
Vallejo, M.
 
Subject decentralization
natural resources
local government
 
Description How are forestry decentralisations evolving in Latin America? What role are municipal governments playing, and to what extent are the needs of forest-dependent peoples being taken into account? This article represents a synthesis of research findings from Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. It assesses current trends in Latin American forestry decentralisations, with particular attention to different conceptions of decentralisation, the role of sub-national governments and the problems of forest-dependent groups. With regard to sub-national governments, the research finds that the principal tendency in the decentralisation of decision-making over forests is through contractual arrangements between local or state governments and forestry institutes. For their part, forest-dependent groups are not able to improve their opportunity to engage in forestry-based activities without specific policies operating in their favour – beginning with secure access to forest resources – and such policy changes have most often come about in response to organised demands and in policy spheres outside of forestry.
 
Date 2007
2012-06-04T09:12:40Z
2012-06-04T09:12:40Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Larson, A.M., Pacheco, P., Toni, F., Vallejo, M. 2007. Trends in Latin American forestry decentralisations: legal frameworks, municipal governments and forest dependent groups . International Forestry Review 9 (3) :734-747. ISSN: 1465-5489.
1465-5489
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19728
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/2322
 
Language en
 
Source International Forestry Review