Policy and Socio - economics of Participatory Forest Management in Bangladesh

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5. Full book description (up to 200 words). In a world of rapidly growing population and finite resources, competition becomes obviously severe. Forest - a renewable resource is now under pressure because of its growing demand for the ever increasing human needs. Poor financing, bureaucracy, political instability, inappropriate policy instruments, missing participation, lack of fund and technical expertise and chain corruption are the identified causes of policy and management failure in forestry of developing countries. With regards to policy and sustainability measures so far achieved internationally, Bangladesh and other developing countries are still not in a position to accept and adopt those measures. Keeping all these issues in consideration a research effort has been made on participatory forestry in Bangladesh focusing on five specific aspects viz. i. review and analysis of Bangladesh forest policies, ii. international forestry development and its linkage with Bangladesh forestry paradigms, iii. historical perspectives of participatory forestry, iv. investment analysis of participatory forestry with a comparison to traditional forest plantation and v. role of participatory forest management in socio - economic development and poverty alleviation. In Bangladesh participatory forestry is becoming financially more attractive than traditional production forestry creating avenues for self reliance, women empowerment, social acceptance and decision making abilities of the grass root level people. We believe that that participatory forestry may serve as an important linkage between poor people, trees and forest agency to halt land encroachment and deforestation. As a pure applied research on forestry, this book can be a useful reference for further research on relevant fields providing clue for policy makers and professionals. 6. Brief author biography (up to 100 words). (included in the back cover) Dr. Nur Muhammed (1971) is a professional Bangladeshi forester with an experience of over thirteen years. He pursued his forestry education in Bangladesh, Germany and Japan in order to obtain both theoretical and practical knowledge in forestry. His specialized field of research is forest policy analysis, socio-economics of social forestry, indigenous people, gender and livelihood issues. As a young researcher he has shown significant research promise that his major research works have been recognized by leading national and international refereed journals on forestry and environment. He is visionary to increase forest cover worldwide involving civil society under participatory approach where every stakeholder will share and nurture planning to execution going beyond bureaucracy. Prof. Dr. Masao Koike (1948) is the head of Forest Policy Laboratory in Shinshu University of Japan. Additionally, he has been acting as the head of the Department of Mountain and Environmental Science of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology of this University since 2008. He is vastly knowledgeable and experienced with Forest Production and Utilization, Forest Policy, International Forestry Labor Theory and Practice, Lumber Market Theory, Socio-economics of Forestry especially, Participatory Social Forestry, Forestry Research and Forest Administration System for the 21st century. He is the co-author of a number of forestry books including the Forest Policy in Japan. Till now he is the author and co-author of more than 150 scientific articles published from different national and international journals on forestry and environment. 7. Author Photo on webpage: (included in the back cover)

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