Science, Use Rights and Exclusion: A history of foresty in Francophone West Africa

Issue paper
, 15 pages
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9027IIED.pdf
Language:
English
Published: January 2001
Drylands Issue Paper
ISBN: 9781904035350
Product code:9027IIED

In francophone West Africa, the forest services asserted their control over forests by claiming superior knowledge which gave them exclusive competence to manage forest resources according to ‘scientific principles’. This paper shows that even today, despite the challenge to such scientific principles by more recent research findings, the legacy of the past approach continues to dominate community based forest management and control.

Cite this publication

Ribot, S. (2001). Science, Use Rights and Exclusion: A history of foresty in Francophone West Africa. .
Available at https://www.iied.org/9027iied