Taking local knowledge about trees seriously
2000
Sinclair, F.L. | Joshi, L.
There has been a sea change in forestry research and development over the last quarter of a century. This has transformed forestry from an ecological discipline, largely about trees and their associated biota, to one which embraces consideration of the people who use forests or want them to be conserved (Westoby, 1987). This change has been forced by practical imperatives. In many developing countries, attempting to keep people out of forests was expensive and largely unsuccessful, so that it became apparent that developing sustainable forest management, either for productive or conservation purposes, required inclusion rather than exclusion of the people in the vicinity of the forest (Oldfield, 1988). As a result, local people who use forests are increasingly seen as legitimate stakeholders in planning forest utilisation and conservation strategies by both public and private forestry initiatives (Bird, 1997). Participatory forest development is in vogue.
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