The paper seeks to examine the nature, structure and determinants of the forest economy of northeast India using secondary data from various sources. The study employs tools like percentage, compound annual growth rate, per capita availability and multiple regressions to find out the growth trend,...

The study examines the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve for the forest product footprint in India. Based on the Autoregressive Distributive Lag Model and its non-linear version, we show that India has an N-shaped forest product footprint-induced environmental Kuznets curve. By employing...

Fuelwood collection by poor people is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Using household survey data from India, we show that households located farther away from the forest spend more time in fuelwood collection. These households are likely to sell...

The basic problem of rural area is problem of underemployment rather than unemployment and it is high incidence of unemployment and underemployment among the economically weaker tribal sections of the society in the country. The tribal people living in forest area depend on forests resources for...

The purpose of this research is to examine the significance of non-timber forest products as a non-farm industry in giving income and employment to Chhattisgarh tribes. The research was based on primary and secondary data obtained between 2014 and 2016. A total of 240 people were chosen for the...

The main objective of the study is to establish the connection between forest ecosystem services (poverty and hunger reduction, valuation of different ecosystem services, sustainable consumption) and sustainable development goals in the Western Ghats region in Karnataka. The present study has used...

Forests provide innumerable positive externalities which are not just region-specific but they benefit globally. However, activities of forest-fringe households for survival often lead to degradation or depletion of natural resource base which affect global atmosphere. Under this circumstance, if...

This research analyses the interactions and impacts of forest carbon projects on existing governance mechanisms viz. policies, institutions and implementation structures. It critically evaluates the assumption that forest carbon projects always result in improved governance of resources. Empirical...

Based on the extensive fieldwork in selected villages of Odisha and Jharkhand, this present paper seeks to analyse the actual process of implementation and analyses the livelihood impact of Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006. However the finding from the study showed that forest as a source of livelihood ...

Avoiding both extremes in the current debate, one holding that any human presence in the forests is detrimental to conservation, and the other that it is not, this paper makes a balanced argument, emphasising that in settling the claims on forest land under the Forest Rights Act 2006, the number of ...