Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas

被引：72

作者：

Baland, Jean-Marie ^{[1
]}

Bardhan, Pranab ^{[2
]}

Das, Sanghamitra ^{[4
]}

Mookherjee, Dilip ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Namur, Namur, Belgium

[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[3] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[4] Indian Stat Inst, New Delhi 110016, India

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2010年 / 38卷 / 11期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Asia; India; Himalayan forests; community management; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES; COMMUNITY; VEGETATION; EXTRACTION; POOR;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.03.007

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

This paper assesses degradation of forests managed by local communities (Van Panchayats (VPs)), relative to state protected and open access forests in the Indian state of Uttaranchal. It is based on ground-level ecological measures of forest quality (including canopy cover, biomass, lopping, and regeneration) in forest areas adjoining a random sample of villages, and controls for unobserved village heterogeneity, possible endogeneity of management regimes and cross-forest spillovers. Controlling for these factors, VP forests are found to be 20-30% less lopped, and similar on other dimensions. The lopping differences are greater the longer the forest has been under a VP. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：1642 / 1656

页数：15

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