Forest Landscape Restoration in India: Antecedents, experience and prognoses. (original) (raw)

The 'forest landscape restoration' (FLR) approach seems to be the latest international favourite in forest improvement and climate change mitigation strategies. The significant feature of FLR is the multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral, and community-based approach, taking care of both physical-technical and social-equity concerns. However, there have been previous examples of such an integrated, holistic, approach in forestry, such as social forestry and joint forest management (JFM), and the landscape approach has been explicitly incorporated in the recent Green India Mission (GIM) of 2010. The paper traces the changes in forest policy, the experience of social forestry and JFM in the Western Ghats Forestry Project, and suggests ways to reconcile the physical output-oriented approach ofthe implementing department with the bottom-up, process approach of FLR.

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