Exploring the implications of social inequalities in community forestry: Emerging lessons from two forests in Indonesia

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Title: Exploring the implications of social inequalities in community forestry: Emerging lessons from two forests in Indonesia
Author/Creator: Race, Digby | Sumirat, B
Description: Community forestry has been developed internationally as a policy response to reduce deforestation and to improve the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities. This article discusses the social dimension of community forestry, and uses the concept of social capital to analyse the implications of social inequalities in two community forestry initiatives in Indonesia. The article concludes with some revealing insights about the: 1) temporal nature of social capital in community forestry; 2) ways social capital can entrench inequalities; 3) role of 'outsiders' assisting the development of community forestry. Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Relation: International Journal of Sustainable Development / Vol. 18, No. 3, pp.211-228
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSD.2015.070233
Year: 2015
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Subject: FoR 07 (Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences) | FoR 05 (Environmental Sciences) | FoR 16 (Studies in Human Society) | community forestry | forests | social capital | social inequalities | Indonesia | deforestation | livelihoods | forest-dependent communities | outsiders

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