Can authority change through deliberative politics?. Lessons from the four decades of participatory forest policy reform in Nepal

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Ojha, Hemant R ^a   Banjade, Mani R ^b   Sunam, Ramesh K ^c   Bhattarai, Basundhara ^d   Jana, Sudeep ^e   Goutam, Keshab R ^f   Dhungana, Sindhu ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Authority; Deliberative politics; Forest policy; Nepal; Policy waves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AUTHORITY; CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT; DELIBERATIVE POLITICS; FOREST AUTHORITIES; FOREST POLICY; MULTIPLE SCALE; NEPAL; POLICY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY;

EID: 84904048102     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2014.04.005     Document Type: Review

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