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| Title: | Curse or blessing? Local elites in joint Forest Management in India's Shiwaliks |
| Authors: | Balooni, Kulbhushan
Lund, Jens Friis
Kumar, Chetan
Inoue, Makoto |
| Keywords: | Forest
governance
India
local elite
power
social capital
state
village institutions |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2010 |
| Publisher: | Igitur, Utrecht Publishing &Archiving Services for IASC |
| Series/Report no.: | 707—728 |
| Abstract: | This article suggests that local elites play an instrumental role — either with positive or negative consequences — in shaping struggles for power over processes and outcomes of participatory forest management interventions , when implemented in communities characterized by social hierarchies . We show how the contrasting outcomes of joint forest management in two case study villages cannot be attributed to institutional reform, but appear to be
caused largely by differences in the role assumed by local elites . The evidenc e
indicates that institutional reform itself does not guarantee changes in the actual management of natural resources. Rather, vested interests at the local
level and among State actors may continue to shape events while working within or beyond the new institutional landscape . On the basis of the results
of our case studies, the article poses the hypothesis that u network theory of social capital could be a useful way of analyzing such diverse outcomes of simi... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2259/650 |
| ISSN: | 1875-0281 |
| Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles
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