Item #4546 The Use of Economics to Assess Stakeholder Incentives in Participatory Forest Management : A Review. Jonathan Davies, Michael Richards.

The Use of Economics to Assess Stakeholder Incentives in Participatory Forest Management : A Review

London: Overseas Development Institute, 1999.

Trade Paperback. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #4546
ISBN: 0850034760

Library stamps/marks/labels, corner bumps, otherwise light wear. Solid copy.; "In spite of a general enthusiasm for participatory forest management (PFM), the economic incentives for stakeholders, particularly local forest users, to get involved in participatory forest management are only poorly understood. This is partly due to weak analysis of the costs and benefits of participation. One reason for this is a lack of accessible methodological guidance for carrying out such studies. The main objective of this paper is to assess existing and emerging economic tools in terms of their potential and limitation to assess stakeholder incentives in PFM.The paper explores the debate concerning the application of economics to community-level forestry. On the one hand there are those who think economic analysis is inappropriate or tends to result in 'spurious precision' and those who feel that a more qualitative analysis is more appropriate and useful. On the other hand are those who think that lack of more quantitative analysis and a failure to place realistic numbers on costs and benefits has proved a serious limitation in the design of effective PFM interventions. The authors consider the case for 'participatory economic analysis', which attempts to bring together the qualitative and quantitative approaches. Their intention is also to explain economic concepts and jargon as clearly as possible for the non-economist reader."; European Union Tropical Forestry Paper; Ex-Library; Vol. 5; 45 pages.

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