Assessing Forest Governance : A Practical Guide to Data Collection, Analysis and Use
In the last twenty years, practitioners have come to appreciate that governance is often the weak link in addressing unsustainable use of forests and trees. Technical knowledge alone is insufficient, and no natural forest management, protected...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC and FAO, Rome
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19774967/assessing-forest-governance-practical-guide-data-collection-analysis-use http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20016 |
| Summary: | In the last twenty years,
practitioners have come to appreciate that governance is
often the weak link in addressing unsustainable use of
forests and trees. Technical knowledge alone is
insufficient, and no natural forest management, protected
area, plantation, or agro-forestry project will succeed if
the resources are poorly governed. The concept of
"forest governance" is often difficult to grasp
because many laws, rules, policies, actions, and
interactions shape forests. This also makes it difficult to
be clear about what the major governance impediments are and
what to do about them. The guide is the outcome of a
collaboration of experts from organizations with different
views and roles on governance issues who united to direct
the compilation of a common set of good assessment
practices. This guide presents a step-by-step approach to
planning forest governance assessment or monitoring,
collecting data, analyzing it, and making the results
available to decision makers and other stakeholders. It also
presents five case studies to illustrate how assessment or
monitoring initiatives have applied the steps in practice,
and it includes references and links to dozens of sources of
further information. |
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