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Introduction: Forest Conservation and Management Introduction: Forest Conservation and Management
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24.1 Basic Legal Framework 24.1 Basic Legal Framework
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24.2 Reading Between the Lines: Key Nuances, Shifts, and Assumptions in the Forest Management Framework 24.2 Reading Between the Lines: Key Nuances, Shifts, and Assumptions in the Forest Management Framework
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24.3 Reading Between the Lines: Gaps and Shifts in the Framework Regulating Forest Conversion 24.3 Reading Between the Lines: Gaps and Shifts in the Framework Regulating Forest Conversion
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24.4 Assessing Outcomes of the Legal Framework for Forest Management and Regulating Conversion 24.4 Assessing Outcomes of the Legal Framework for Forest Management and Regulating Conversion
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Concluding Remarks: Navigating Colonial Legacies with Statist and Conservationist Blinkers Concluding Remarks: Navigating Colonial Legacies with Statist and Conservationist Blinkers
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Suggestions for Further Reading Suggestions for Further Reading
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24 Forest Management and Conservation Regime
Get accessSharachchandra Lele, Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Policy and Governance, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru and Honorary Professor, Shiv Nadar University (Institution of Eminence) Delhi-NCR, and Adjunct Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Pune.
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Published:18 July 2024
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Abstract
Forest conservation involves ensuring sustainability in use-priority areas, preservation in biodiversity-priority areas, and regulation of the conversion of forests to non-forests. But forests provide multiple benefits to multiple stakeholders at multiple scales, and hence trade-offs between these benefits result in tradeoffs between stakeholders. Forest governance therefore requires addressing questions relating to the use, preservation and conversion of forests while incorporating the interests of multiple stakeholders. This chapter describes how these questions were resolved under the statist forest governance regime that prevailed during the colonial and post-colonial epoch, till the passage of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. An overview of the basic legal framework is followed by a description of key variations, nuances, and shifts over time in each. An assessment of this governance regime is then presented in terms of the fairness of priorities chosen for forest management, including attention to customary rights and social justice, effectiveness, sustainability and transparency and accountability in functioning.
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