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标题：Logging Concessions and Local Livelihoods in Cameroon: from Indifference to Alliance?
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作者：Guillaume Lescuyer ; Samuel Assembe Mvondo ; Julienne Nadège Essoungou 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Sustainable forest management gives the opportunity to better integrate the way local populations use theircustomary "village terroirs" in the logging activities. This requirement is explicitly stated in all forest laws of the Congo Basincountries but its implementation on the field remains under documented. In Cameroon, 30 forest management plans (FMP) forlogging concessions have been reviewed to assess how they effectively include customary use rights. The integration of userights into the FMPs is heterogeneous but always with very low enforcement. The weak influence of the FMP application onlocal practices is confirmed with an empirical survey that shows that natural, financial, and physical capitals in two villages ofthe eastern region of Cameroon have been little affected by the adjoining logging concession over the latest 13 years. Extrasectorpolicies such as agriculture, road infrastructure, techniques, and land tenure are the real drivers of socioeconomic change at thelocal scale. Their impacts are facilitated by the presence of the logging concessions, which can contribute indirectly to improvelocal livelihoods
关键词：Central Africa; customary rights; socioeconomic impacts; sustainable forest management