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Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh

  • An evidence-based work that evaluates various CBFM practices on the basis of extensive field data sets
  • Critically analyzes current CBFM practices and outlines important policy implications
  • Includes detailed research methods researchers can adopt in similar studies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: World Forests (WFSE, volume 22)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction, Aims, and Outline

    • Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
    Pages 1-15
  3. The CBFM in Bangladesh: A Historical Background

    • Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
    Pages 17-28
  4. Betagi–Pomra Community Forestry (CF): 35 Years of Pioneer CBFM in Bangladesh

    • Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
    Pages 29-48
  5. Co-management of Protected Areas (PA): A Paradigm Shift in PA Management

    • Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
    Pages 49-99
  6. The Village Common Forest (VCF): Community-Driven Forest Conservation in Chittagong Hill Tracts

    • Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
    Pages 101-123
  7. Toward Sustainability of Community-Based Forest Management

    • Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
    Pages 155-167
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 169-176

About this book

The book is immensely beneficial to the readers to have a clear understanding of various CBFM practices prevailing in Bangladesh.
Providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of success stories concerning several CBFM practices in different forest areas of Bangladesh, together with their respective strengths and weaknesses, it identifies sharing authority to take decision by the community as one of the main weaknesses. The other main weakness is the lack of beat level authority to coordinate with community for making the process vibrant. The book determines that it is the community patrol group which is most effective under the co-management system, yet the general body and executive committee of the co-management system are composed of different stakeholders, each of which is subject to their own work pressures, and are not as effective as claimed. There is a need to empower communities living in and around forests, and to create ownership of the forests so that theycan feel that the forests around them are by the community and for the community.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Tapan Kumar Nath

  • Institute of Forestry & Environmental Sciences,, Institute of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

    Mohammed Jashimuddin

  • The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Inoue

About the authors

Tapan Kumar Nath is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His work focuses on collaborative natural resources management, livelihood analysis, project monitoring, and evaluation. His on-going research focuses on the environmental ethics of peat swamp forests, community-managed urban forests and participatory agroforestry. He has led several national and international research projects, and has authored, co-authored and edited numerous publications including “Monoculture Farming: Global Practices, Ecological Impact and Benefits/Drawbacks” (2016).   
 
Mohammed Jashimuddin is a Professor of Forestry and Environmental Sciences at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His research interests include land use and policy analysis, tropical forest management, people-oriented forestry, co-management, ecotourism, monitoring and evaluation of forestry development projects based on realities in the field, land use, and forest and environment policy science. He has led national and international research projects, and provided consultancy services for development projects. He has authored a book on “Drivers of land use change and policy Analysis in Bangladesh: Theory and Policy Recommendations” (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011) and co-authored a book chapter on “Do the Changes of Policy Ensure Good Forest Governance? Case of Community Forestry in Bangladesh” in “Multi-level Forest Governance in Asia: Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward” (SAGE Publications, 2015).
 
Makoto Inoue is Professor of Forest Environmental Studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His specialty is common-pool resource governance to reflect realities in the field and combining sociology, and anthropology as well as forest policy science perspectives.  He has led international research projects and edited books such as “People and Forest: Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan” (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), “Collaborative Governance of Forests: Towards Sustainable Forest Resource Utilization” (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), and “Multi-level Forest Governance in Asia: Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward” (SAGE Publications, 2015).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh

  • Authors: Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue

  • Series Title: World Forests

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42387-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42386-9Published: 09 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82567-0Published: 12 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42387-6Published: 27 July 2016

  • Series ISSN: 0785-8388

  • Series E-ISSN: 1566-0427

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 176

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Forestry Management, Climate Change, Nature Conservation, Sustainable Development

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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