Sustainability | |
Bringing People Back into Protected Forests in Developing Countries: Insights from Co-Management in Malawi | |
关键词: co-management; forest; livelihoods; institutions; participation; reciprocal altruism; incentives; cross-scale; Malawi; developing country; | |
DOI : 10.3390/su5051917 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
This study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods and a process-based conceptualization of co-management to analyze experiences, and theory of reciprocal altruism to explain major findings of continuing local forest-user commitment to co-management despite six years of conservation burdens largely for minimal financial benefits. It argues that overemphasis on cash incentives as
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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