Property vs. Control
The State and Forest Management in the Indian Himalaya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Haripriya Rangan (0000-0003-4238-2353, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-94 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7660.00035 |
| OpenAlex | W1988568212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 13 |
The latest orthodoxy to emerge in environmental literature centres on the notion that state ownership of forests results in poor management and ecological degradation. Depending on their political persuasion, scholars, policy‐makers and activists either advocate privatization of state forests, or demand their transferral to local communities as solutions for promoting sustainable forest management. This article argues that such proposals are flawed because they assume that ownership status determines the ways in which resources are used and managed. It argues that an analytical distinction needs to be made between property and control for understanding the complex interplay of social, economic, political and ecological factors that influence forest stock, composition and quality. Through a historical analysis of the development of state forestry in the Indian Himalaya, the article shows how state ownership of forests does not result in the monolithic imposition of proprietary rights, but emerges instead as an ensemble of access and management regimes
Business · Control (management) · Economics · Environmental resource management · Forest management · Geography · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Orthodoxy · Persuasion · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Property rights · State (computer science) · Stock (firearms) · Sustainability · Sustainable Management · Cambodian History and Society · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Forestry · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Politics of Identities and Resources in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Indigenous Peoples and Forest Management
Impacts of – and farmers’ adaptation to – land allocation policies in the north central uplands of Vietnam
Nature–society and development
Authority and Environment
Die politische Ökonomie der „Überflüssigen“
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world
Une théorie de l’accès
The Dynamics Access on Tourism Governance in Wakatobi National Park
Diverse property rights, institutions and decentralisation
Access Revisited
Explaining success on the commons
Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources
Identities and Livelihoods
Cathecting the Natural
Famine in the Landscape
Cathecting the Natural
Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia
Identities and Livelihoods
Theorizing Access
A Theory of Access
Suffering for water, suffering from water
Institutional efficacy in resource management
Like water for justice
Bittersweet cocoa
“Odum will take forever to grow”
Paper Forests
Recognising land rights for conservation? tenure reforms in the Northern Sierra Madre, The Philippines
Access to benefits from forest commons in the Western Himalayas
Explaining the performance of state–community joint forest management in India
Sustainability’ in ecological economics, ecology and livelihoods
Political ecology of land reforms in Kinnaur
Rites of passage
Indian Environmentalism and the Question of the State
The Practical Politics of Knowing
A Crystal Ball for Forests
The East India Company
A rule of property for Bengal
This Fissured Land
Rich Forests, Poor PeopleResource Control and Resistance in Java
"Common Property" as a Concept in Natural Resources Policy * 1
Imperial Meridian
Property relations and economic development
Fuelwood, subsistence foraging, and the decline of common property
Labor Time, Production Time and Capitalist Development in Agriculture; A Reconsideration of the Mann-Dickinson Thesis
The Unquiet Woods
Unfree labour and capitalist restructuring in the Agrarian sector
Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |