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Tenure and Forest Management in India: Impacts on Equity and Efficiency of Van Panchayats in Uttarakhand

In: Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa

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  • Ashokankur Datta

    (Shiv Nadar University)

  • Gunnar Köhlin

    (University of Gothenburg)

Abstract

Environmentalists and conservationists have often advocated communal control of natural resources as a way to ensure its judicious and sustainable use (Colchester, 1994; Kothari, 2011). Since the early 1980s, economists, sociologists and cultural anthropologists have documented cases of sustainable natural resource management by local communities (Acheson, 1988; Ostrom, 1990; Berkes, 1986). This was followed by sophisticated theoretical models that showed that ‘commons’ — resources that are jointly managed — often follow trajectories that are not ‘tragic’ (Sethi and Somanathan, 1996; Chichilnisky, 1994). Once Ostrom and others had demolished the infallibility of the Tragedy of the Commons, policymakers around the world started viewing communal control as a panacea to solve all kinds of natural resource problems.

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  • Ashokankur Datta & Gunnar Köhlin, 2013. "Tenure and Forest Management in India: Impacts on Equity and Efficiency of Van Panchayats in Uttarakhand," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stein T. Holden & Keijiro Otsuka & Klaus Deininger (ed.), Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa, chapter 10, pages 233-255, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-34381-9_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137343819_10
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