Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes

This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas. It focuses attention at the interface between communities and the landscape level, building on interdisciplinary research conducted in five countries (Cameroon, Indonesia, Laos, Madagascar and Tanzania). In each country, the research was set within the framework of a major national policy thrust. The book improves our understanding of and ability to manage complex landscapes---mosaics of differing land uses---in a more adaptive and collaborative way that benefits both the environment and local communities. It includes both single country and cross-site analyses, and focuses on themes, such as resettlement, land use planning, non-timber forest product use and management, the disconnect between customary and formal legal systems, and the role of larger scale policies in local level realities. Chapters also anal

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a Senior associate in the Governance Program at CIFOR and a Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Institute for International Food, Agriculture and Development in Ithaca, New York. Her work focuses on strengthening the voices of women and men who live in and near tropical forests. She is editor of Human Helath and Forests (2008). Jean-Laurent Pfund is a Forester and a Senior Scientist at CIFOR, Indonesia. He has long experience with the people and forests of Madagascar and led the research project from which this book derives.

1. An Introduction to Five Tropical Landscapes, Their People and Their Governance 2. The Governance of Tropical Forested Landscapes 3. Role of the District Government in Directing Landscape Dynamics and People's Futures: Lessons Learnt from Bungo District, in Jambi Province 4. Information Flows, Decision Making and Social Acceptability in Displacement Processes 5. Changing Landscapes, Transforming Institutions: Local Management of Natural Resources in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania 6. Traditional Use of Forest Fragments in Manompana, Madagascar 7. The Role of Wild Species in Governance of Tropical Forested Landscapes 8. Governance and NTFP Chains in the Takamanda-Mone Landscape, Cameroon 9. A Dozen Indicators for Assessing Governance in Forested Landscapes 10. Minefields in Collaborative Governance 11. The Essential Task of 'Muddling Through' to Better Landscape Governance