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SUMMARY:Assessing participatory forest management: a practice based approa
 ch - Professor Bas Arts\, Wageningen University
DTSTART:20131022T120000Z
DTEND:20131022T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Recently\, the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FN
 P) of Wageningen University in the Netherlands developed the so-called ‘
 practice based approach’ to analyse forest governance issues. This appro
 ach is a response to the – in our view – shortcomings of the most domi
 nant schools in our field\, particularly rational choice and neo-instituti
 onalism. Both are largely flawed\, because each is unable to capture both 
 human capacities and creativities and collective action and regularities t
 hat together constitute social fields. The practice based approach claims 
 to offer that broader perspective. In this seminar\, the approach will be 
 shortly explained and applied to some cases of participatory forest manage
 ment (PFM) in India and Ethiopia. Although PFM seems to be pushed into the
  background of the global forest agenda\, probably due to more recent init
 iatives like REDD+ and FLEGT\, the movement is as important and alive on t
 he ground in various countries around the world as let’s say 10 years ag
 o. The practice based approach will offer a fresh perspective on PFM and i
 ts (perceived) successes and failures\, as will be shown by confronting th
 e practice based findings from India and Ethiopia with the broader PFM lit
 erature.
LOCATION:Seminar Room
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