Grey Literature Library - Social Forestry Collection

Papers on social forestry in India

Grey literature collection includes documents from India over the last twenty years, the collection traces the process of social forestry, which aimed to satisfy local needs through fuelwood plantations and to divert pressure from natural forest through the participation of private framers and communities.

The papers included are as follows:

Village-level management of common property resources, especially fuelwood and fodder resources in Karnataka, India
Brokensha, D. 1988
Women and wasteland development - policy issues. Paper presented for the ILO workshop on women and wasteland development
Saxena, N.C. 1991
Elusive goals of social forestry - an Indian experience
Verma, D.P.S.
Afforestation of village common lands: a case study of Aslali village woodlot in Gujarat
Singh, K.; Ballabh, V. 1989
Hand-book of wastelands development
Hagde, N G. 1987
Economics of Subabul plantation. In Hegde, N.G. and Abhyanker, P.D. (eds.) The Greening of Wastelands
Relwani, L.L.; Hegde, N.G. 1986.

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