The forestry outlook study 2020 aims at an introspection on the prevailing forestry situation in the country and makes a critical analysis of the trends of development in various socio-economic sectors (agriculture, energy, etc) till 2020 and their influence on the forestry sector in its management, institutional and policy development aspects.

Social capital has been recognized as the ability of communities to cooperate that different communities possess to different extents. But what are the factors that help build this capital in different communities in order to enable them to preserve a resource and what factors help sustain and maintain this capital over a period of time?

The present work examines the changing notion of wastelands and contested rights over it in
Assam in the last 200 years. As the East India Company gradually became aware of this
region, they expressed their serious interest in the wastelands. The initial intervention took
place with the discovery of tea plants in Assam, and the Company administration began to
lease out such lands to the European planters. During the 1830s and 1870s, a significant
amount of such lands was transferred to the planters. It was from the 1870s that the newly

Guyana, a nation with more than 75 per cent of forest cover, is seeking to capitalize on in the emerging market for carbon offsets for forest conservation. Recently it offered its rainforest as a

Some 15 years ago, pine-covered hillsides were the typical images of Karsog in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district. But pine provided little fodder for cattle. People in its villages preferred

A hill in Orissa's Ganjam district used to be barren about 20 years ago. In 1985, the state forest department planted saplings, including Acacia and Eucalyptus, as part of its state-wide social

Exclusionist policies of forest conservation, of which preservation via dislocation is an extreme manifestation, need to be situated within the broad canvas of the conservation-poverty-rural livelihood interface.

Pangulu Pahada owes a lot to Ramakanta Pradhan and his 60 students for its existence. The hill would have become a neglected barren mount if the headmaster and his flock from an upper primary school

there is tension brewing in three villages in Maharashtra's Melghat Sanctuary over rehabilitation measures. The sanctuary, within the Melghat Tiger Reserve, is being freed of people to protect

In a significant contribution to a longstanding debate, the Anthropological Survey of India has come out with a study showing that four villages in the core zone of Orissa's Similipal Reserve cause

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