Living with Diversity: Forestry Institutions in the Western Himalaya

Abstract

[...] theoretical anchors, Vasan adopts a conceptual framework that provides her with a sharp and well defined lens for her case studies of forestry agents and institutions in Himachal Pradesh. A further point worth noting is the book's lack of attention to wider institutional dynamics and relations that have played out beyond the highlighted case studies, for example, NGO advocacy and initiatives to strengthen community forestry and state and donor efforts to foreground the role of panchayats as institutions in decentralized forest management.