The recent surge in the efforts to reform forest governance-both through decentralisation and ten... more The recent surge in the efforts to reform forest governance-both through decentralisation and tenure reforms-has been coupled by an increase in empirical studies that assess the virtues and limitations of the new regimes. Despite an increasing body of literature, however, there is still limited knowledge about the effects of these reforms on the indigenous groups and their forest governance institutions. This study seeks to contribute to the empirical literature by analysing how policy reforms in Bolivia have affected one indigenous territory, its inhabitants, their de facto property rights regime, and their consequent efforts to govern their forest resources. The case study, about forest use decisions and actions among the Yuracaré people in the Bolivian lowlands, is an example of what the Amerindian indigenous societies face in terms of both opportunities and limitations associated with the implementation of formalised de jure rights over forests. We pay particular attention to the effects of the 1996 forestry reforms on the institutional conditions for governing common-pool forests resources. The study draws on primary fi eld data that were collected both before and after the implementation of the reforms. We fi nd that the introduction of formal rights has led to increased security in tenure rights and the emergence of more opportunities for diversifying the sources of income for the Yuracaré people. But there are also signifi cant costs associated with the achievement of these benefi ts. The reforms induced the Yuracaré people to integrate with the surrounding public and private economies, but we fi nd that these interactions have strained traditional governance arrangements.
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Cualquier opinión vertida en este documento es de los autores. No refleja necesariamente las opin... more Cualquier opinión vertida en este documento es de los autores. No refleja necesariamente las opiniones de CIFOR, de las instituciones para las que los autores trabajan o de los financiadores. Nota de los editores Esta colección de artículos fue traducida de la publicación original que apareció en la revista Conservation and Society 10(2) en el 2012. Allí se pueden encontrar tres estudios de caso adicionales (Ghana, Camerún y Kenia), disponibles en inglés, y que pueden ser descargados sin costo alguno, así como las versiones en inglés de todos los artículos, de la página web de la revista http://www.conservationandsociety.org/showBackIssue. asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2012;volume=10;issue=2;month=April-June Índice Prefacio iv Agradecimientos v Lista de autores vi 1. Introducción 1 La reforma de la tenencia forestal: ¿Nuevos derechos sobre los recursos para las comunidades que viven en los bosques? 3 Anne M Larson y Ganga Ram Dahal 2. Temas transversales 35 La cogestión en la forestería comunitaria: Cómo la transferencia parcial de los derechos de manejo crea retos para las comunidades forestales 37
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