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Deforestation, Property Rights and Incentives in Central Himalaya

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openalex:w1509978484

Authors

E. Somanathan

Reported year

2016

Reported language

en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:12:50.051049+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:12:50.051049+00:00

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Documentary abstract — original language

use beyond the capacity of the forest to regenerate, through too much felling, lopp-. ing and grazing. The users who have brought this about include the rural population of the hills who live in the vicinity of forests, as well as the timber, pulp, resin and other forest-based industries. I argue in this paper that they have done so because of the existing structure of property rights in forests. I shall use the term 'property rights' to mean both rights of user and fights of control. The right to use an asset such as forest land means the right to appropriate at least a part of the produce or returns from it. The right of control means the right to take actions affecting the productivity of the asset, as well as the right to regulate the behaviour of others, including the option of excluding them completely from using the asset In the case of privately owned assets, all these rights are concentrated in a single individual or entity, but in the case of public or common lands they may be distributed among several individuals, organisations, or a government. The prevailing structure of property rights has created uncertainty among the users about their being able to get future benefits from the forests. This has destroyed the incentive to conserve for the future I refer to such a problem as an incentive. problem. Nearly all the forest-land in the hills has always been non-private and so open to

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W1509978484

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Scholarship

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article

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Forest

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• openalex:w2095369216 · CITES
• openalex:w2236031694 · CITES
• openalex:w2332593512 · CITES

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