Challenges of forest governance in Madagascar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4634035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J Mcconnell (0000-0002-7978-5036, Indiana University Bloomington), Sean P Sweeney, Sean Sweeney (0000-0002-1979-2488, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 171 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-238 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00162.x |
| OpenAlex | W2116464520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
There has been a huge surge in interest in the preservation of Madagascar's forests in the past two decades, but despite the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, the goal remains elusive. Recent legislation has given the government the authority to enter into contractual arrangements with communities for the management of the country's public forests, so it has become crucial to grapple with the significant challenges involved. This paper explores the enormity of the challenge of forest governance in Madagascar in an era of decentralization. By examining several forests in one part of the country, it reveals a dizzying range of forest types and forms of use and governance within a fairly small portion of the country. These examples make it apparent that the history of forest management in Madagascar constitutes a broad-ranging experiment with forest governance. Simply monitoring the dynamics of the forest canopy is a significant technical challenge. However, this pales in comparison to the difficulties inherent in explaining those dynamics and assessing the sustainability and equity of different management regimes. Of the forests considered in the study, those where the Malagasy state has partnered with international conservation and development organizations seem to stand out, both in terms of stabilized, or even growing, forest cover, as well as a balance of interests among users
Business · Community forestry · Corporate governance · Decentralization · Economics · Environmental resource management · Equity (law · Forest management · Geography · Government (linguistics · Legislation · Political science · Sustainability · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Forestry · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
Madagascar Country Environmental Analysis
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory
Multifunctional, Scrubby, and Invasive Forests
La Gestion Contractualisée des Forêts en pays Betsiléo et Tanala (Madagascar)
Factors influencing stakeholder interaction patterns in Forest Landscape Restoration
Power in Natural Resources Management
Issues and challenges of forest governance in Madagascar
La Géomatique, Outil de Surveillance de L'Orpaillage Clandestin en Guyane Française
Groundwater governmentality
People and Forests
Polycentric Governance and Development
Deforestation History of the Eastern Rain Forests of Madagascar from Satellite Images
Section of Anthropology
Selling Forest Environmental Services
Use of Sensitivity Analysis to Evaluate Key Factors for Improving Slash-and-Burn Cultivation Systems on the Eastern Escarpment of Madagascar
Changing the economics of environmental degradation in Madagascar
Misconstrued land use in Vohibazaha
From exclusion to participation
Disaggregating Induced Intensification for Land-Change Analysis
The Institutional Architecture of Extractive Reserves in Rondônia, Brazil
Innovations for conservation and development
Participatory Conservation? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana
Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |