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Local Community Attitudes toward Forests Outside Protected Areas in India. Impact of Legal Awareness, Trust, and Participation.

Identification

Public canonical key

doi:10.5751/es-04242-160310

Authors

Biljana Macura · Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez · Mar Grau-Satorras · Kathryn Demps · Marie Laval · Claude Garcia · Victoria Reyes-García

Reported year

2011

Reported language

en

Source type

ART

First detected

2026-11-09T19:16:16.872937+00:00

Last metadata observation

2026-11-09T19:18:56.348491+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · French Institute of Pondicherry · Institut Français de Pondichéry · Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals · Instituts Français de Recherche à L'Étranger · Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Documentary abstract — original language

The success of long-term sustainable management of natural resources depends on local people’s support. Assessing local people’s attitudes, taking into account their needs, and respecting their opinions should become a management priority. In India, in the last 20 years, community needs and aspirations in forest management were handled through Joint Forest Management with varying degrees of success. Recently, the Forest Rights Act (2006) was passed to recognize and vest forest rights in forest dwelling communities. This major policy development is still in implementation, but little is known about how this devolution process will affect people’s attitudes toward forests. In this paper, we analyze associations between attitudes toward state controlled forests (Reserved Forests) and (i) awareness about the Forest Right Act, (ii) attitudes toward the State Forest Department, and (iii) participation in forest management groups of mostly tribal forest dwellers in the district of Kodagu (Karnataka). We collected information with a structured questionnaire among 247 villagers living under three different land tenure and management regimes: (1) private coffee plantations, (2) Reserved Forest, and (3) National Park. The results of the multivariate analyses show that people are more likely to appreciate Reserved Forests if they have more knowledge about the Forest Rights Act and if they have positive attitudes toward the State Forest Department. A sobering result in our sample is that participation in formal forest management groups is negatively associated to attitudes toward Reserved Forests, suggesting the Joint Forest Management model doesn’t necessarily help the transition from coercion to consent. Increasing local people awareness about their rights and improving their relations with the formal forest stewards remain priorities for sustainable forest management to emerge in India.

Identifiers

OPENALEX

W2048207363

DOI

10.5751/es-04242-160310

HAL

hal-02934509

ISSN

1708-3087

Documentary context

Documentary family

Scholarship

Source-reported types

ART · article

Jurisdictions studied — explicit sources

IN

Natural entities mentioned

Forest

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Sources

HAL · Record 1 · Record 2 · Record 3

OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.5751/es-04242-160310
• HAL · https://hal.science/hal-02934509
• Document · https://hal.science/hal-02934509v1
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W2048207363

Documented bibliographic relations

Source-declared references and links; they do not establish legal support or UGLC qualification. Up to 20 outgoing references are displayed.

• Domestic Forests: A New Paradigm for Integrating Local Communities' Forestry into Tropical Forest Science · CITES
• openalex:w1963825985 · CITES
• openalex:w1982128005 · CITES
• openalex:w2026707750 · CITES
• openalex:w2035525026 · CITES
• openalex:w2044743148 · CITES
• openalex:w2055595432 · CITES
• openalex:w2068119040 · CITES
• openalex:w2075993095 · CITES
• openalex:w2076926005 · CITES
• openalex:w2081254720 · CITES
• openalex:w2092446248 · CITES
• openalex:w2092695010 · CITES
• Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the Western Ghats Region of Kerala · CITES
• openalex:w2121501674 · CITES
• Competing Visions: Domestic Forests, Politics and Forest Policy in the Central Western Ghats of South India · CITES
• openalex:w2125361029 · CITES
• openalex:w2135328819 · CITES
• openalex:w2139747487 · CITES
• openalex:w2142070663 · CITES

2 incoming references within the detected corpus

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