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Development Discourses and Peasant–Forest Relations: Natural Resource Utilization as Social Process

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This article analyses the changing role of forests and the practices of peasants toward them in a Costa Rican rural community, drawing on an analytical perspective of political ecology, combined with cultural interpretations. The study underlines the complex articulation of local processes and global forces in tropical forest struggles. Deforestation is seen as a process of development and power involving multiple social actors, from politicians and development experts to a heterogeneous group of local peasants. The local people are not passive victims of global challenges, but are instead directly involved in the changes concerning their production systems and livelihood strategies. In the light of historical changes in natural resource utilization, the article underlines the multiplicity of the causes of tropical deforestation, and the intricate links between global discourses on environment and development and local forest relations.

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  • Anja Nygren, 2000. "Development Discourses and Peasant–Forest Relations: Natural Resource Utilization as Social Process," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 31(1), pages 11-34, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:31:y:2000:i:1:p:11-34
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00145
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    1. Nygren, Anja, 2005. "Community-based forest management within the context of institutional decentralization in Honduras," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 639-655, April.
    2. Floriane Clement, 2010. "Analysing decentralised natural resource governance: proposition for a “politicised” institutional analysis and development framework," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 43(2), pages 129-156, June.
    3. Julia A. Flagg, 2018. "Carbon Neutral by 2021: The Past and Present of Costa Rica’s Unusual Political Tradition," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-14, January.
    4. Holmes-Watts, Tania & Watts, Scotney, 2008. "Legal frameworks for and the practice of participatory natural resources management in South Africa," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(7-8), pages 435-443, October.
    5. Van Hecken, Gert & Merlet, Pierre & Lindtner, Mara & Bastiaensen, Johan, 2019. "Can Financial Incentives Change Farmers' Motivations? An Agrarian System Approach to Development Pathways at the Nicaraguan Agricultural Frontier," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 156(C), pages 519-529.
    6. Evangelia Apostolopoulou & John D Pantis, 2010. "Development Plans versus Conservation: Explanation of Emergent Conflicts and State Political Handling," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 42(4), pages 982-1000, April.
    7. Leipold, Sina, 2014. "Creating forests with words — A review of forest-related discourse studies," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 12-20.
    8. David Humphreys, 2016. "Integers, integrants and normative vectors: The limitations of environmental policy integration under neoliberalism," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(3), pages 433-447, May.

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