Community Based Forest Management (CBFM)
Dr. Bhagwan Dutta Yadav
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues，
The Community Forestry Management approach is very popular and now widely spread in the world. This forest management is an approach to mitigate forest degradation and forest deforestation to address the negative impacts on rural livelihoods. In Asia particularly in South Asia including Nepal it has been playing a very significant role to conserve and restore forest resources and maintain the wildlife population. Currently it is part of sustainable forest management. This community Based Forest Management (CBFM) approach has also contributed to supply of energy through firewood, charcoal and contributed in supplying energy in terms of firewood, charcoal, and employed over billions of people under the primary and forest industry in the world. Moreover, the community Based Forest Management approach provides sound frameworks through which REDD provides financial and livelihood benefits to the forest dependent communities and indigenous communities by acknowledging their essential role and contribution and long-term contribution in the sustainable forest management and maintaining sustainable ecosystems. The other role of CBFM is to support end users to their community development activities including rural paths, roads, establishing of the health post, community halls, supporting in improving education through recruiting the school teachers, modern education services like IT service, providing WiFi rural drinking water supply and so on.
These above aspects are analyzed by econometric analysis through qualitative techniques and descriptive analysis based on data collected by survey with talking of users and households through semi constructed questionnaire surveys. Thus, the qualitative techniques will be also used to analyze the collected data. These techniques are also used to find out the financial, social, environmental and economic valuation and outcomes.
Dr. Bhagwan Dutta Yadav
Guest Editor