Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies

'A well written book, astutely organized.'

Development and Change

Local Forest Management is built around careful and illuminating case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests in several Asian countries. The studies demonstrate that devolution policies - contrary to the claims of governments - actually increased governmental control over the management of local resources and did so at lower cost.

The controversial findings show that if local forest users are...