 |
Crisis to Context: the Fuelwood
debate
|
|
In the 1970s there was a surge of interest
in the issue of fuelwood. For the most part this was propelled by
the 1973 rise in fossil fuel prices and associated energy concerns,
as well as certain influential publications on the issue such as
that by Eckholm (1975) entitled the ‘Other Energy Crisis:
Fuelwood’ . Wood fuel demand was seen to be outpacing sustainable
supply, and catastrophic projections for year 2000 were presented
in the form of a ‘fuelwood gap’ (see United Nations,
1980). A study by FAO in 1981 estimated that 2000 million people
were dependent on fuelwood and other biomass fuel, of which more
than 100 million were unable to meet minimum requirements sustainably...
|
|
Robert Nash and Cecilia Luttrell
|
2006
|
|
|
Putting
"social" into forestry?
|
|
Jack Westoby’s challenge to the forestry world that ‘forestry
is not about trees, it is about people. And it is about trees only
insofar as trees can serve the needs of people’ (Westoby,
1967 cited in Leslie, 1987: ix) was first answered by social forestry.
Its appearance on the international stage was as a response to the
so-called poor-man’s fuelwood energy crisis, the supposed
eco-disasters of the 1970s and most importantly the growing realisation
that industrial forestry was failing to deliver the claimed socio-economic
benefits. All of this was to have profound consequences on the future
shape of the forest sector. The history of these changes is an important
part of understanding why and how social forestry evolved...
|
|
Mary Hobley
|
2005
|
|
|
Building
state-people relationships in forestry
|
|
Joint forest management (JFM), community forestry, collaborative
management are just a few of the terms that have come into use over
the last 15 to 20 years to describe a new set of relationships between
the state (usually through forest departments) and people living
in and close to forests and woodlands. In this overview, the origins
of these forms of forestry are discussed and the implications in
terms of the benefits accruing to people, the institutional responses
and the ecological changes. This overview focuses on the changes
in India and Nepal between the 1980s and 1990s where much of the
earliest experience was gained and which was influential in many
other countries in other continents...
|
|
Mary Hobley
|
2005
|
|
|
More than
woods and women: the Gender debate in rural development forestry
|
|
The uneven distribution of benefits amongst different social groups,
such as the men and women involved in rural development forestry,
has been an important area of interest in all the thematic areas
in the literature. The focus on gender in rural development forestry
has covered a number of aspects. These include firstly the differences
in participation in the design and implementation of projects between
men and women, secondly uneven access to benefits from these activities,
and thirdly the strategies that can be used to overcome the constraints
faced by women in benefiting from such activities...
|
|
Pelin Zorlu and Cecilia Luttrell
|
2006
|
|
|
Participatory Forest Management: an overview
|
|
The inclusion of communities in the management of state-owned
or formerly state-owned forest resources has become increasingly
common in the last 25 years. Almost all countries in Africa, and
many in Asia, are promoting the participation of rural communities
in the management and utilisation of natural forests and woodlands
through some form of Participatory Forest Management...
|
|
Kate Schreckenberg, Cecilia Luttrell and
Catherine Moss
|
2006
|
|
|
|
