[article] | Title : |
Scores for Effective Forest Conservation: A Village-to- Village Approach |
| Material Type: |
printed text |
| Authors: |
POKHAREL, R.K., Author ; H.O. Larsen, Author |
| Publication Date: |
2009 |
| Article on page: |
11-15 p |
| Languages : |
English (eng) |
| Keywords: |
Community forest, criteria, forest management, indicator, village, |
| Abstract: |
Community forestry in Nepal strives for forest conservation and sustainable forest
management. Evaluating progress towards this end requires periodic measurements,
and currently there are no standard tools for undertaking evaluations in a participatory
way. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standardized way for measuring effective
forest conservation through the use of locally set scores. A village-to-village approach
was used to assign scores on criteria and indicators developed earlier for forest
conservation. A total of eight small meetings with forest users were conducted to elicit
their perspectives and quantify their progress towards conservation by means of scores.
For the 14 criteria specified, local forest users assigned higher scores to four criteria: two
for social and one each for socio-economic and environmental spheres. This paper
argues that a score of 59 or above is an effective cut off for determining “effective” forest
conservation. |
| Link for e-copy: |
http://lib.frtc.gov.np/elibrary/pages/view.php?ref=58&k= |
in BANKO JANAKARI - वनको जानकारी : A Journal of Forestry Information for Nepal > 19 : 1 (January - June 2009) . - 11-15 p
[article] Scores for Effective Forest Conservation: A Village-to- Village Approach [printed text] / POKHAREL, R.K., Author ; H.O. Larsen, Author . - 2009 . - 11-15 p. Languages : English ( eng) in BANKO JANAKARI - वनको जानकारी : A Journal of Forestry Information for Nepal > 19 : 1 (January - June 2009) . - 11-15 p | Keywords: |
Community forest, criteria, forest management, indicator, village, |
| Abstract: |
Community forestry in Nepal strives for forest conservation and sustainable forest
management. Evaluating progress towards this end requires periodic measurements,
and currently there are no standard tools for undertaking evaluations in a participatory
way. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standardized way for measuring effective
forest conservation through the use of locally set scores. A village-to-village approach
was used to assign scores on criteria and indicators developed earlier for forest
conservation. A total of eight small meetings with forest users were conducted to elicit
their perspectives and quantify their progress towards conservation by means of scores.
For the 14 criteria specified, local forest users assigned higher scores to four criteria: two
for social and one each for socio-economic and environmental spheres. This paper
argues that a score of 59 or above is an effective cut off for determining “effective” forest
conservation. |
| Link for e-copy: |
http://lib.frtc.gov.np/elibrary/pages/view.php?ref=58&k= |
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Scores for Effective Forest Conservation: A Village-to- Village Approach in BANKO JANAKARI - वनको जानकारी : A Journal of Forestry Information for Nepal, 19 : 1 (January - June 2009)
