community-based forest governance from resistance to proposals for sustainable use https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/community-based-forest-governance.pdf Community-based forest governance:
• Refers to the regulations and practices used by many communities for the conservation and sustainable use of the forests with which they coexist.
• This type of governance is collective-communal, and by tradition identifies with the protection of the forests with regard to their industrial and commercial use.
• It also identifies itself with traditional knowledge as an alternative to the classic “forest science” . The latter approach is based on simplified models, assumes that destruction is “reversible,” and has facilitated multiple cases of forest devastation as well as severe social injustic
Throughout India’s 60 years of independence, approximately 30 million Adivasis have been officially displaced from their natural territory, for
“development” projects including tourism, logging concessions, monoculture plantations, mining, reservoirs and roads. Various interests have attempted to claim that the Adivasi settlements are harmful and degrade tropical forests. But this discourse has merely been used to justify the exclusion of many communities and has facilitated commercial harvesting of India’s forests. The process has often begun with the creation of reserves, national parks and wildlife “sanctuaries”; and continued with the construction of roads to provide access for hotel infrastructure, turning these zones into tourist areas
with greater resultant impacts than those generated by the communities originally inhabiting them