About the Book: Communities, Forests and Governance: Policy and Institutional
Innovations from Nepal
"Over the past few decades, Community -Based Forest Management (CBFM) has
evolved as a key strategy of conservation as well as promoting local
livelihoods, especially in the developing countries. Nepal has been designing
various policies and programmes to support somewhat different but complementary
strategies of CBFM over the past three decades. This book draws from these
experiences top document lessons from different CBFM initiatives that have taken
place over the past few decades in Nepal. The book analyzes not only the
dynamics of community-level interactions but also how policy and programme
processes shape, determine and