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At the expense of democracy : payment for ecosystem services in Hoima District, Uganda / Agrippinah Namara.
- Title
- At the expense of democracy : payment for ecosystem services in Hoima District, Uganda / Agrippinah Namara.
- Author
- Namara, Agrippinah
- Publication
- Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, [2015]
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- Additional Authors
- Responsive Forest Governance Initiative.
- Description
- 40 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- About 70 per cent of forests in Uganda lie outside of protected areas, owned by private individuals and companies, but with oversight decentralised to the district local governments. Due to insufficient human and logistical resources, local government institutions do not enforce forestry regulations effectively and so deforestation outside protected areas remains high about 2.6 per cent annually. This research focused on a Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) pilot project implemented in Western Uganda, targeting forests outside protected areas. Results indicate that NGOs and the central government are using such projects to establish their influence over local decision-making processes and, in the process, override the mandate and knowledge of the local stakeholders. In Uganda, high rates of deforestation are partly attributed to the land tenure system that gives complete control to private landowners and limits state control.
- Series Statement
- RFGI working paper ; no. 14
- Uniform Title
- RFGI working paper ; no. 14.
- Subject
- Forest reserves > Valuation > Uganda > Hoima District
- Forest conservation > Uganda > Hoima District
- Forests and forestry > Valuation > Uganda > Hoima District
- Payments for ecosystem services > Uganda > Hoima District
- Forest conservation
- Forest reserves > Valuation
- Forests and forestry > Valuation
- Payments for ecosystem services
- Uganda > Hoima District
- Note
- Cover title.
- "Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI)."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-40).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9782869786288
- 286978628X
- LCCN
- 2015332655
- OCLC
- 951078909
- SCSB-12228850
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library