The paper assesses the effects of public innovation initiated by demands from communities in the northern Bolivian Amazon to revise forest regulations and policies. Bolivia enacted wide-reaching land and forest reforms in the mid-1990s, but these reforms were insufficient to tackle competing claims on forests and exclusion of local forest users from benefiting from timber production. Pressures by forest communities resulted in significant adjustments in regulations and policies, and the main driver was social pressure from communities as well as their representatives. The adjustments have allowed communal local practices, which were previously illegal, to become legal. They have allowed communities access to timber markets, improve incomes, and enhanced compliance with timber regulations.
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16 December 2019
Public Innovation and Changes in Communal Access to Timber in the Northern Bolivian Amazon
W. Cano,
A. Van De Rijt,
W. De Jong,
P. Pacheco
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International Forestry Review
Vol. 21 • No. 4
December 2019
Vol. 21 • No. 4
December 2019
Brazil nuts
community and smallholder forestry
forest rights
forest sector reforms
timber extraction