Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh
Participation in Bangladesh’s ‘protected’ forest management has been sought as a corrective to state’s failure to manage, conserve the country’s limited forest resources. ‘Participation’ is sought to achieve goals of conservation and livelihood. This is a significant shift from the radical pro-envir...
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| Formato: | Second cycle, A2E |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5107/ |
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| author | Hoque, Obaidul |
| author_browse | Hoque, Obaidul |
| author_facet | Hoque, Obaidul |
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| description | Participation in Bangladesh’s ‘protected’ forest management has been sought as a corrective to state’s failure to manage, conserve the country’s limited forest resources. ‘Participation’ is sought to achieve goals of conservation and livelihood. This is a significant shift from the radical pro-environment policy environment that locked forests away in ‘protected areas’, albeit largely ‘on paper’, from a significant human population whose interests are in conflict with those of the state, to a less radical ground where local inhabitants are ‘included’ in the ‘conservation’ of forest resources. While claims of successful ‘participation’ of local and non-local stakeholders in the newly imposed, ‘replicable’, management arrangements are surfacing, an understanding of the claimed participation becomes more relevant than ever. This essay argues that the claimed level and nature of ‘participation’ of the impoverished inhabitants of these protected forests is only a ‘construction’ that is gaining coin within the state – donor – development – academic landscape. The institutional arrangement put forward neither calls for meaningful participation nor take into account needs of a significant human population that is ever-increasingly dependent on the forest resources that are attempted to be ‘protected’. |
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| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | Swedish Inglés |
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| spelling | RepoSLU51072012-12-27T10:30:43Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5107/ Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh Hoque, Obaidul Forestry - General aspects Social sciences, humanities and education Participation in Bangladesh’s ‘protected’ forest management has been sought as a corrective to state’s failure to manage, conserve the country’s limited forest resources. ‘Participation’ is sought to achieve goals of conservation and livelihood. This is a significant shift from the radical pro-environment policy environment that locked forests away in ‘protected areas’, albeit largely ‘on paper’, from a significant human population whose interests are in conflict with those of the state, to a less radical ground where local inhabitants are ‘included’ in the ‘conservation’ of forest resources. While claims of successful ‘participation’ of local and non-local stakeholders in the newly imposed, ‘replicable’, management arrangements are surfacing, an understanding of the claimed participation becomes more relevant than ever. This essay argues that the claimed level and nature of ‘participation’ of the impoverished inhabitants of these protected forests is only a ‘construction’ that is gaining coin within the state – donor – development – academic landscape. The institutional arrangement put forward neither calls for meaningful participation nor take into account needs of a significant human population that is ever-increasingly dependent on the forest resources that are attempted to be ‘protected’. 2012-12-18 Second cycle, A2E NonPeerReviewed application/pdf sv https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5107/11/hoque_o_121218.pdf Hoque, Obaidul, 2012. Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh : space for participation of the people. Second cycle, A2E. Uppsala: (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/OID-595.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-1933 eng |
| spellingShingle | Forestry - General aspects Social sciences, humanities and education Hoque, Obaidul Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh |
| title | Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh |
| title_full | Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh |
| title_short | Collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of Bangladesh |
| title_sort | collaborative management of the ‘protected’ forests of bangladesh |
| topic | Forestry - General aspects Social sciences, humanities and education |
| url | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5107/ https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5107/ |