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Prospects of Private Forestry Around Urban Centres: A Study in Upland Nepal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gopal B. Thapa  and
Karl E. Weber
Gopal B. Thapa
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Regional Environmental Management, School of Environment, Resources, and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2754, Bangkok 10501, Thailand
Karl E. Weber
Affiliation:
Professor of Rural Development Planning and Dean, School of Environment, Resources, and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2754, Bangkok 10501, Thailand.
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A substantial proportion of the population in the area concerned depends on fuel-wood as its major source of fuel. As a result, forests around towns — as in the case of Upper Pokhara Valley — are undergoing degradation. Private forestry could be an attractive option to control or even to reverse this process. Besides providing employment and income opportunities to fanners, this would help to alleviate pressure on commonland forests and control erosion.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , Winter 1994 , pp. 297 - 307
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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