Nightingale, Andrea
- University of Gothenburg
Abstract
This paper explores the impact of violent conflict in Nepal on the functioning of community forestry user groups (CFUGs), particularly those supported by the Livelihoods and Forestry Programme, funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). The key questions are: (i) what explains the resilience of CFUGs operating at the time of conflict?; (ii) what institutional arrangements and strategies allowed them to continue working under conflict conditions?; and (iii) what lessons can be drawn for donor-supported development around the world? The study contributes to other research on the everyday experiences of residents of Nepal living in a period of conflict. It suggests that CFUG resilience was the result of the institutional set up of community forestry and the employment of various tactics by the CFUGs. While the institutional design of community forestry (structure) was very important for resilience, it was the ability of the CFUGs to support and use it effectively that was the determining factor in this regard.
Keywords
community forestry; Nepal; political ecology; resource governance; violent conflict
Published in
Disasters
2014, volume: 38, number: 3, pages: 517-539
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Human Geography
Other Earth Sciences
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12056
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/73042