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The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field

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Title The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field
 
Creator Larson, A.M.
Ribot, J.C.
 
Subject community forestry
forestry
forestry policies
poverty
ecology
 
Description Can policies designed to maximize exploitation by elites benefit the people who live in forests? Forestry policy throughout the developing world originates from European ‘‘scientific’’ forestry traditions exported during the colonial period. These policies were implemented by foreign and local elite whose interest was to maximize and extract profit. In spite of reforms since the end of the colonial period, policies on the environment usually remain biased against rural communities. Even when more recent policies are fair, the rural poor face severe biases in implementation. In addition, they must compete on an uneven playing field of ethnic and other social inequities and economic hurdles. This article examines how forestry policy and implementation maintain double standards on this uneven playing field in a manner that permanently excludes the rural poor from the natural wealth around them—producing poverty in the process. Change that would support poverty alleviation for forest-based communities requires a radical rethinking of forest policy so as to counterbalance widespread regressive policies and structural asymmetries.
 
Date 2007-09-21
2012-06-04T09:12:39Z
2012-06-04T09:12:39Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Larson, A.M., Ribot, J.C. 2007. The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field . Sustainability Science 2 (2) :189-204. DOI 10.1007/s11625-007-0030-0.
1862-4065
1862-4057
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19708
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/2302
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-007-0030-0
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Sustainability Science