Decentralization and people's participation in conservation: a comparative study from the Western Terai of Nepal From: International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Heinen, Joel T; Baral, Nabin | Copyright Sapiens Publishing Oct 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Key words: Biodiversity conservation, conservation policy, decentralization, Nepal, participatory conservation, protected areas management

SUMMARY

Nepal formally embarked on decentralized participatory conservation programmes in 1990. To assess who participates in and benefits from such programmes, stratified random questionnaire surveys of 234 households and interviews with 29 user group chairs were conducted in the buffer zones of two protected areas of the Nepalese Terai: Bar...

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