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Article: Tree integration in homestead farms in southeast Nigeria: propositions and evidence.(forest management)
- Article from:
- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Introduction
The definition and characterization of forest management has changed since the early 1980s. There has been significant progress in the development and testing of new paradigms and interpretation of forest management principles. The result has been the acknowledgement of the significant role of community involvement in forest management. In a useful review of the wide variety of existing indigenous forest management types, Wiersum noted that the 'normative grounding of the concept of forest management meant that for a long time the forest management practices of local communities were ignored' (1997, 7). To understand local forest management regimes, ...