Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

By Laura Anne German (editor), Alain Karsenty (editor), Anne Marie Tiani (editor)

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Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of decentralization and its outcomes - most of which suggest…

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1 author picked Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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This book is the fourth in a series on forest decentralization globally, a series for which I edited the other three books. So I was gratified to see how this one turned out. I appreciate it because it provides some of the same contextual material on governance in Africa – an area I know less well – that the book by Moeliono et al. provided for Borneo. Some of the authors and one editor had also been members of the original ACM teams in Africa (in the early 2000s), bringing some of their own related insights into the discussion.

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