TY - JOUR
T1 - Three decades of community-based forest management in the Philippines
T2 - Emerging lessons for sustainable and equitable forest management
AU - Pulhin, J.
AU - Inoue, M.
AU - Enters, T.
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - This paper presents a comprehensive review of the policy and practice of community-based forest management (CBFM) in the Philippines over the last three decades - one of the longest experiences in Asia. As a form of structural policy reform, CBFM may be viewed as radical and progressive. It replaced the century-old corporate mode of forest utilization where benefits flowed directly to an elite minority and attempts to institutionalize a more "people-oriented," approach of forest management. However, progress on the ground in terms of achieving the CBFM's goals on sustainable and equitable forest management remains elusive. Unstable policy, overly bureaucratic procedures, CBFM viewed as a project and not as an approach to replacing commercial large-scale forestry, and weak institutional support system, deter effective implementation. Drawing from three decades of experience, the paper distilled emerging lessons for sustainable and equitable forest management that may be useful to other countries promoting community forestry.
AB - This paper presents a comprehensive review of the policy and practice of community-based forest management (CBFM) in the Philippines over the last three decades - one of the longest experiences in Asia. As a form of structural policy reform, CBFM may be viewed as radical and progressive. It replaced the century-old corporate mode of forest utilization where benefits flowed directly to an elite minority and attempts to institutionalize a more "people-oriented," approach of forest management. However, progress on the ground in terms of achieving the CBFM's goals on sustainable and equitable forest management remains elusive. Unstable policy, overly bureaucratic procedures, CBFM viewed as a project and not as an approach to replacing commercial large-scale forestry, and weak institutional support system, deter effective implementation. Drawing from three decades of experience, the paper distilled emerging lessons for sustainable and equitable forest management that may be useful to other countries promoting community forestry.
KW - Community-based forest management
KW - Forest policy
KW - Philippines
KW - Social equity
KW - Sustainable forest management
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U2 - 10.1505/ifor.9.4.865
DO - 10.1505/ifor.9.4.865
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:56949101294
VL - 9
SP - 865
EP - 883
JO - International Forestry Review
JF - International Forestry Review
SN - 1465-5489
IS - 4
ER -