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Towards a community-based concession model in the DRC
- Source :
- International Forestry Review
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2017.
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Abstract
- In 2014 Decree 14/018 laying down the rules for granting forest concessions to local communities, followed by Ministerial Order 0/25 on the same issue was published in the DRC. This paper aims to analyse the abovementioned legislation with respect to participatory ma nagement of forests. The explicit recognition of the duality of a customary de facto local community forest and a modern legal entity (concession) is an innovation. However, viewed from the perspective of the long-established habits within the country, the question remains whethe r these legal measures can be sufficient for ensuring the sustainable development of these community-held forested areas. Allowing community concessions up to 50,000 ha demonstrated a shift in the government policy away from the industrial timber cultivation model. However, an ar ea this size is much larger than the communities can monitor, particularly in the case of artisanal charcoal or wood exploitation. (Resume d'auteur)
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Decree
D50 - Législation
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics
Production forestière
Aménagement forestier
Geography, Planning and Development
Public policy
Legislation
forêt tropicale
gestion des ressources naturelles
01 natural sciences
Législation de l'environnement
Order (exchange)
E50 - Sociologie rurale
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Sustainable development
Community based
Ecology
Forestry
Citizen journalism
Forêt collective
Communauté rurale
K10 - Production forestière
Local community
Réglementation forestière
010601 ecology
Développement durable
Forêt
Politique forestière
approches communautaires
Business
Economic system
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14655489
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Forestry Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a5c1588b67f00a88cf033cd26199d46d