Open AccessManagement Arrangements of the Chaprote Forest and their Implications for Sustainable Development
Author(s) -
Saqib Mumtaz,
Durr-e-Nayab
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v30i4iipp.1075-1086
Subject(s) - forest management , natural resource , business , work (physics) , sustainable forest management , jurisdiction , sustainable management , environmental resource management , government (linguistics) , natural resource economics , natural forest , indigenous , natural resource management , ecoforestry , environmental planning , forestry , sustainability , geography , intact forest landscape , economics , forest ecology , political science , ecology , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , law , biology , ecosystem
This presentation is a more comprehensive version of the paperthat has been circulated. The paper examines the terms of access to theresources of the Chaprote forest in the Nagar valley of NorthernPakistan, before and since 1972. In 19n, the Nagar valley became part ofthe Federally Administered Areas of ~akistan. The politicaltransformation of the regime, was contiguous with changes in theeconomic situation, which affected local requirements, allocation, andaccess to natural resources. Our analysis hence, focuses on some of theexcesses and inadequacies of regimes being incorporated within apolitical economy on the one hand, and being subjected to interventionsat odds with local potential and former systems of managing andexploiting local resources on the other. Our aim is to make suggestionsfor better management, conservation and development of forest resources.This. exercise includes the concern of environmentalists, among otherissues, over conserving finite natural resources, and maintaining asymbiosis between regeneration and depletion of renewable naturalresources [Dubois (1976); Rapoport (1978); Sachs (1978, 1980) andSimonis (n.d)].