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The experience with Joint Forest Management (JFM) in different countries has varied considerably, succeeding in limiting deterioration of the forest in some cases but not in others. Inequality within the forest community has also had a tendency to increase. The purposes of this chapter are (1) to review relevant literature on JFM, (2) to develop a multi-purpose model that could be used to identify conditions that can influence the likelihood of success of JFM in improving the welfare of those living and working in forest communities as well as making forest use more sustainable, and (3) to highlight the role of forest externalities and institutional conditions in analyzing the effects of JFM, and (4) to suggest applications and extensions that could provide valid policy implications tailored to specific circumstances. Although highly simplified, the model is designed so as to be flexible enough to deal with a wide variety of settings in rural areas of developing countries and yet at the same time specific enough to provide some policy conclusions. Even the present highly simplified model demonstrates general conclusions about the efficacy of JFM cannot be drawn without very specific empirical knowledge concerning the behavioral and technological parameters in the model.
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Chakrabarti, M., Datta, S.K., Howe, E.L., Nugent, J.B. (2005). Joint Forest Management: Experience and Modeling. In: Kant, S., Berry, R.A. (eds) Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources. Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3518-7_11
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