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JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY
卷 34, 期 3, 页码 259-275出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10549811.2014.1003565
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alienation; conservation; deforestation; empowerment; Uganda
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资金
- J. W. Fulbright Program of the United States Department of State
- IFLEA Project at Makerere University - Germany Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Directorate of Research & Graduate Training of Makerere University
- Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
- McIntire Stennis program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
We examined key drivers of deforestation in the Lake Victoria Crescent, Uganda from 1989 to 2009 through a case study approach with a multiple-case design. Nineteen focus groups with local community members and forest officials, archival analysis, and field observation revealed both proximate causes and underlying drivers of deforestation. Proximate causes of deforestation included agricultural expansion into forests, unsustainable extraction of wood forest products, and clearing of forests for nonagricultural uses. Underlying drivers of these proximate causes included policy and institutional factors, economic factors, population growth, technological changes, and changes in culture-each resulting in alienation of local people from forest resources. Alienation of local people, defined as a psychological dispossession of responsibility for forest resources, is posited as the most important underlying driver of deforestation. We discuss the importance of the involvement of local people in the management and maintenance of forests in the Lake Victoria Crescent.
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