Authority Over Forests: Empowerment and Subordination In Senegal's Democratic Decentralization

The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority and Access to Natural Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 101-124

  Ribot, Jesse C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Action of NGO (DGL Felo) civic education for rural councils and rural populations; Authority over forests empowerment and subordination in Senegal's democratic decentralization; Decentralization redistribution of power, central government and actors lower in hierarchy; Forestry decentralization in Nambaradougou; Local Forestry Brigade Chief, Matar Koulibaly; Nambaradougou Forestry Brigade chief forestry for Nambaradougou and rural communities; Progressive new decentralization laws of 1998; Senegal's decentralization laws PCR of Nambaradougou, managing forests in jurisdiction; Signing in Nambaraduougou coercion of Weex Dunx; Sub prefect, Sasoumane Dioup

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EID: 84857981024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322903.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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