Power: a Driving Factor of Forest Policy in Cameroon. Example of Community Forestry - Movuh, Mbolo C. Yufanyi
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This book presents theories and methods which enable a better comprehension of how powerful stakeholders influebce forest policy with community forestry as concrete example. Community forestry is being propagated all over the world by researchers, western bilateral organisations, NGOs and international institutions as a bottom-up model for community participation in forest and wildlife management especially in the tropical parts of the world. Academic and empirical publications analysing community participation in forest management have laid more emphasis on mainstream social and political…mehr

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This book presents theories and methods which enable a better comprehension of how powerful stakeholders influebce forest policy with community forestry as concrete example. Community forestry is being propagated all over the world by researchers, western bilateral organisations, NGOs and international institutions as a bottom-up model for community participation in forest and wildlife management especially in the tropical parts of the world. Academic and empirical publications analysing community participation in forest management have laid more emphasis on mainstream social and political theories and less on critical theories. Many publications highlight the importance of community forestry worldwide while at the same time question ist successes. The book will contribute to the scientific discourse while analyzing forest policy in Cameroon through the example of community forestry. Power being the core of the analysis as a driving factor fo forest policy in Cameroon, the book questions such as: (1) How an power be described in the context of forest policy, case study of community forestry? (2) What are the power processes? And (3) what outcomes of this power processes could be observed? The book analyzes the importance of power through political and critical theories, connecting them with other power theories and concepts formulated by the Community Forestry Working Group in Goettingen, Germany.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Mbolo C. Yufanyi Movuh was born 1974 in a small border village (Idenau) near Limbe, South-West region of Cameroon. He started his studies of Biochemistry 1994 at the Yaoundé 1 University. After migrating to Germany in 1998 he studied Forestry Sciences at the Georg-August University Goettingen. He completed a Bachelor¿s degree in Forest sciences and ecology and Master¿s degree in Tropical and International Forestry. His research on Community-based Natural Resource Management in Cameroon started in 2006 with focus on Conservation and Development. In 2008 he started his PhD research on Community forestry in Cameroon and completed it at the Department of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy of the Georg-August University in Goettingen in 2013. In the research towards completion of this degree, and applying critical theories, he analyzed the outcomes of Community forestry, the actors involved in it, and their respective power and interests as well as the heritage of colonial domination in the parctice of development assistance and cooperation.