Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
Who’s Governing Community Forests? Gendered Participation in Liberian Forest Management | |
Sheila N. Onzere; Natalie Elwell; Edward R. Carr; Cynthia Caron; Denise Bebbington | |
2020-06 | |
出版年 | 2020 |
国家 | 美国 |
领域 | 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
英文摘要 | Across sub-Saharan Africa, women play an important role in managing the forests that support their lives, livelihoods and households. Yet they are often excluded from decision-making processes affecting these natural resources. As many African countries take steps to decentralize natural resource management and strengthen local forest governance mechanisms, it is critical to understand the barriers that women face when they try to engage in forest management. Doing so can help ensure that decisions made at both national and community levels protect women’s access to forest resources as well as benefit from their wisdom on sustainable management. This paper examines how power relations, authority and competing interests converge to shape both resource access as well as individual community members’ ability to participate in forest management. It identifies patterns of engagement in forest governance, explains these trends and highlights pathways through which women’s participation in managing these ecosystems may be improved. Field research, conducted in collaboration with Clark University and the Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) in Liberia, finds that women’s livelihoods and the sustainability of forest resources would greatly benefit from women’s participation in local decision-making processes. Women, for example, often possess unique knowledge and skills that can help improve forest management, because they tend to use different forest resources than men. However, significant regulatory and social changes are needed to achieve this goal. This paper finds that a deeper understanding of local power relations and social dynamics must underpin efforts to foster gender and social equity. Such an analysis can also help decision-makers avoid risks to already vulnerable people and the forest resources on which they depend. |
URL | 查看原文 |
来源平台 | World Resources Institute |
文献类型 | 科技报告 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/276830 |
专题 | 气候变化 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sheila N. Onzere,Natalie Elwell,Edward R. Carr,等. Who’s Governing Community Forests? Gendered Participation in Liberian Forest Management,2020. |
条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。
修改评论