Performance of participatory forest management in Ethiopia: institutional arrangement versus local practices
Performance of participatory forest management in Ethiopia: institutional arrangement versus local practices
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埃塞俄比亚参与式森林管理的绩效：制度安排与当地实践
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2017
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B. Arts
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A. Ayana;Nathalie Vandenabeele;B. Arts
过去二十年来，以社区为基础的自然资源管理领域受到越来越多的科学关注。然而，大多数研究侧重于调查体制设计和成果，而很少注意社区自然资源管理安排是如何在实践中执行的。本文通过对埃塞俄比亚西南部最早的参与式森林管理安排之一进行深入的人种学案例研究，证明参与式森林管理的体制原则与当地森林管理的实际做法之间存在很大差距。我们的研究证实了以实践为基础的方法对于理解和解释新引入的体制安排是如何由处于其社会、政治和历史背景下的当地行为者采取行动的有用的。我们的研究结果还有助于提供经验知识，有助于推动对话，并批判性地反思是否需要以及采取何种干预措施才能对当地的森林管理做法产生积极影响。
The field of community-based natural resource management has been receiving growing scientific attention over the past two decades. Most studies, however, focus on investigating institutional designs and outcomes and pay scant attention to how community-based natural resource management arrangements are carried out in practice. Through an in-depth ethnographic case study in one of the pioneer participatory forest management (PFM) arrangements in southwest Ethiopia, this article demonstrates a significant disparity between the PFM institutional principles and actual local forest management practices. Our study confirms the usefulness of a practice-based approach to understand and explain how a newly introduced institutional arrangement is acted upon by local actors situated in their social, political and historical context. Our findings also contribute to empirical knowledge useful to instigate dialog and to critically reflect on whether and what kind of intervention is actually needed to positively influence forest management practices on the ground.