Sustainability Through an Alternative Property-Rights Regime for Bangladesh's Mangrove Forest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4490539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anjan Kumer Dev Roy (University of Southern Queensland), Khorshed Alam (0000-0003-2232-0745, University of Southern Queensland), Jeff Gow (0000-0002-5726-298X, University of Southern Queensland) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 372-389 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2013.00004.x |
| OpenAlex | W2100943402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This study examines the challenges of achieving sustainable management of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, in Bangladesh. The Sundarbans is currently managed by the Bangladesh Department of Forest, under a state property‐rights regime, while our study explores an alternative property‐rights regime. We employed a mixed‐method approach to examine the prospects of alternative management and livelihood strategies to achieve sustainability. Both focus groups and household surveying were used to assess the opportunities for, and barriers to, achieving sustainability. It was found that two conflicting groups—forest‐dependent communities and foresters—are responsible for policy failures due to the absence of power‐sharing arrangements, nor is it likely a common property‐rights regime will be enough to cap degradation and achieve sustainability, while supply‐and‐demand policy interventions may well could help achieve sustainable management of the Sundarbans
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Common-pool resource · Economics · Environmental degradation · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Forest management · Geography · Livelihood · Mangrove · Natural resource economics · Political science · Property rights · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Environmental Science · Land Rights and Reforms
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |