A journey towards shared governance: status and prospects for collaborative management in the protected areas of Bangladesh

查看全文 作　　者：A. Z. M. Manzoor [1,2]Rashid;Donna [1]Craig;Sharif Ahmed [3]Mukul;Niaz Ahmed [4]Khan

机构地区：[1]Environmental Law, School of Law, University of Western Sydney,Australia;[2]Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology,Sylhet, Bangladesh;[3]School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland,Australia;[4]Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka,Bangladesh

出　　处：《Journal of Forestry Research》索引2013年第24卷第3期,共7页

摘　　要：Establishment of Protected Areas (PAs), in the face of rapid deforestation, forest degradation and climate change has been one of the key efforts in conservation of biodiversity worldwide in recent times. While Bangladesh has gained a degree of prominence in the world for its successful social forestry programs, the concept of collaborative protected area management is rather new in the country, initiated in 2004 by the Bangladesh Forest Department in five PAs with financial assistance from USAID. Based on empirical evidence from three of the pilot PAs, we examined the achievements and associated challenges and prospects for co-management. Our fieldwork revealed a number of challenges faced by co-management institutions: (1) institutions were dominated by the elite group, overshadowing the voice of the community people; (2) mutual trust and collective performance are key to good governance but had not taken root in the PAs; (3) encroachment onto forest land and subsequent conversion to agriculture remained a serious problem that discouraged forest-dependent people from participating actively in co-management initiatives; (4) legal provisions (including acts, rules and policies) were not clearly and adequately disseminated and understood at the community level; (5) there remained a degree of ambiguity regarding the roles and responsibilities of forest department (FD) and co-management committees (CMC) in field operations, and this was not enhancing transparency and accountability of the overall initiative; (6) the long-term sustainability of co-management institutions was another major concern, as the local intuitional structure was still in a nascent stage, and provisioning of resources (either internally or externally) remained somewhat uncertain. We offer recommendations for improvement. 关键词：保护区管理孟加拉国运营管理协同治理生物多样性保护功率放大器森林退化

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