Forestry Sector Reform and Distributional Change of Natural Resource Rent in Indonesia

After the collapse of the centralized Soeharto regime, deforestation caused by over-logging accelerated. To tackle this problem, an IMF/World Bank-led forestry sector reform program adopted a market-friendly approach involving the resumption of round wood exports and raising of the resource rent fee, with the aim to stop rent accumulation by plywood companies, which had enjoyed a supply of round wood at privileged prices. The Indonesian government, for its part, decentralized the forest concession management system to provide incentives for local governments and communities to carry out sustainable forest management. However, neither policy reform worked effectively. The round wood export ban was reimposed and the forest management system centralized again with cooperation from a newly funded industry-led institution. In the midst of the confusion surrounding the policy reversal, the gap between the price of round wood in international and domestic markets failed to contract, although rent allocations to plywood industries were reduced during 1998-2003. The rents were not collected properly by the government, but accumulated unexpectedly in the hands of players in the black market for round wood.

'Institutional Shopping' for Natural Resource Management in a Protected Area and Indigenous Territory in the Bolivian Amazon.

Focusing on an overlapping protected area and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon, this article discusses how indigenous people continue to negotiate access to natural resources. Using the theoretical framework of New Institutionalism, ethnographic data from participatory observations, and interviews with Takana indigenous resource users and park management staff, we identified four phases of institutional change. We argue that under the current institutionally pluralistic setting in the overlapping area, indigenous users apply “institutional shopping” to choose, according to their power and knowledge, the most advantageous institutional framework in a situation. Indigenous users strategically employed arguments of conservation, indigeneity, or long-term occupation to legitimize their claims based on the chosen institution. Our results highlight the importance of ideologies and bargaining power in shaping the interaction of individuals and institutions. As a potential application of our research to practice, we suggest that rather than seeing institutional pluralism solely as a threat to successful resource management, the strengths of different frameworks may be combined to build robust institutions from the bottom up that are adapted to the local context. This requires taking into account local informal institutions, such as cultural values and beliefs, and integrating them with conservation priorities through cross-cultural participatory planning.

The major range problems and their solution, résumé of a report prepared in response to Senate resolution 29, together with letters of transmittal, table of contents, etc., from "The western range,a great but neglected natural resource,"

Mode of access: Internet.

A compendium of references to publications on spatial analysis applied to natural resource management as authored by U. S. university faculty members /

Cover title: Spatial analysis applied to natural resource management.

Natural resource technical bulletin /

Description based on: No. 2 (1982); ceased with no. 9, 1986.

Reorganization of natural resource functions of USDA [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Environment, Soil Conservation, and Forestry of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, April 10, 1979.

Reuse of record except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Preparing for the future through science and technology : an agenda for environmental and natural resource research /

"1995-386-543/25604"--P. C-4.

Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area : Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area : natural resource management plan.

Includes executive summary.

Development and expansion of the natural resource data and information systems in support of the Illinois Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan : annual segment report 2005 /

Submitted to Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Development and expansion of the natural resource data and information systems in support of the Illinois Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan : final project completion report 2006, project 5-02-P-001, 1 February 2003 to 30 September 2006 /

Submitted to Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Illinois in the '80's--trends in natural resource management : proceedings of the ninth annual INR Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 25-26, 1980 /

"August 25-26, 1980."

Illinois streams natural resource assessment : operational framework /

Caption title: Final report of the Streams Assessment Subcommittee, State Water Plan Task Force.

Making a difference : accomplishments of 1996 Natural Resource Conservation Education Program /

Shipping list no.: 1998-0152-P.

Charting our future-- : a nation's natural resource legacy.

Shipping list no.: 99-0046-P.

A forest in focus : what the Boise National Forest is doing to accomplish the Forest Service Natural Resource Agenda.

"April 2000."