Basu, N. G. (1990) Harmony in Conflict: Forests in Developing Countries

Conference: Presented at "Designing Sustainability on the Commons," the first annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), Duke University, Durham, NC, September 27-30, 1990.

Abstract: "Forests are one important common property resource in India. What essentially distinguishes our situation from that of developed nations in this field is that more than 50 million forest-dwellers largely depend of forests for their economic, cultural and ethnic survival. The socio-cultural practices fo these people are interwoven with the life cycle of forests. On the other hand with the passage of time, nation's management of forests as common property resources, conflicts between two interests, local community interests and national interests, are increasingly pronounced. In this paper attempts have been made to present a perception in bringing about a harmony between these conflicting interests, on the basis of Indian experience."