A Descentralização Florestal no Senegal: Impactos Socioeconômicos e Ecológicos. / Forestry Decentralization in Senegal: Socioeconomical e Ecological Impacts.

AUTOR(ES)

Marie Therese Yaba Ndiaye

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In 1998 Senegal passed laws that transferred authority over the management of forests to local communities. This dissertation studies the impact of this decentralization on the health of the Samba Dia and Sambande forests and the livelihoods of forest-dependent populations. I use this analysis to reflect on the broader question of the impact of decentralization on conservation and poverty alleviation. I employ temporal and spatial modes of comparison in this study with qualitative research methods. Decentalization has contained forest degradation in both areas. But while people in Sambandé forest report benefits to all from the forest, in Keur Samba Dia members of one village report benefits while others decry a reduction in their benefits from the forest. I argue that the transfer of authority from a largely absent and incapable state to well-organized and knowledgeable local communities account for the containment of environmental degradation in both forests. But while the uniform use of the forest by community members has helped people in Sambandé solve distributive conflicts and so universally benefit from the forest, a significant divergence in how the two villages in Keur Samba Dia exploit the forest has worsened distributive conflicts allowing the more powerful people of Yayem to benefit more but exclude the less powerful people of Samba Diallo from these new benefits. The impact of decentralization on poverty alleviation and forest health is mediated by important local factors and we should not expect it to have good effects in all areas in which it is pursued.

ASSUNTO(S)

forests sustainability sustentabilidade ecológica sociologia distributive conflicts produtos florestais não-madeireiros pobreza collective action decentralization descentralização borassus rural poverty alleviation extralegal enforcement

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