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Title: | Institutions and sustainable forest management |
Author: | Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Uganda Journal (ISSN 0041-574X) |
Volume: | 45 |
Period: | August |
Pages: | 51-60 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Uganda East Africa |
Subjects: | forestry Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry forest management nature conservation government policy West Mengo forests (Uganda) Human settlements political participation |
External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/uj/article/view/23020 |
Abstract: | Sustainable forest management is concerned with the extent to which those who use forest resources and those who own or control them operate within generally agreed upon institutional requirements, i.e. approved rules and regulations to achieve sustainability. This paper summarizes a study carried out in communities surrounding the West Mengo forests within 80 km from Kampala, Uganda, with a view to ascertaining the extent to which forest utilization and management and institutions in the country are related. The study used five variables: equity and fairness; clarity (common understanding of rules); transparency; conflict resolution; and representation of the users in rule making. Official rules governing the forest resources under government control (nature forests and exploitation forests) are not well understood by the local users and lack transparency. They allow a gap for improper or illegal exchanges between local users and forest officials. Although the local forest users are not involved in the making of rules in privately controlled forests, they may participate in modifying them together with the owners. The forest resources under private control (individual and communal sacred forests) are governed by informal rules somewhat similar to those of government forests. In the past, the rules governing the use of communal forests were very much based on the culture and traditional beliefs of the area. Bibliogr., ref. |