Sharachchandra Lele, Shruti Mokashi, Anuja Anil Date, Atul Joshi

Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science |  November 22, 2024

Historically, some form of local management of forests existed in many parts of the world in the precolonial era. Enclosures, invasions, colonization, or policies of postcolonial states led to the takeover of most of these forests and a breakdown in local or community management.