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Social and economical aspects of Miombo woodland management in Southern Africa: options and opportunities for research.

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Social and Economical Aspects of Miombo Woodland Management in Southern Africa: Options and Opportunities for Research

Peter A. Dewees

Summary

Five themes are identified for social, economic and policy research relating to miombo woodland management in southern Africa. They are: (1) patterns of local institutional change; (2) household use of woodland products; (3) markets for woodland products; (4) longer term dimensions to woodland use and exploitation and (5) policy and legislation. These themes are by no means definitive or exhaustive, but are described here as a means of focusing on the scope of future research, and as a basis for identifying priorities.

Table of Contents:

• Background
  
• Local management of miombo resources: an introduction
  • What is management anyway?
  • Participation and the commons
  • Management for what? Benefits, private and public
  • Looking at the long term
  • Common themes
    
• Institutional change, tenure, and access to woodland resources
  • Resource sharing and state lands
  • Resource sharing and customary lands
  • Considering local management
    
• Economics of the household, and woodland use and management
  • The scope of household studies
  • Valuation
  • Concerns about methodology
    
• Woodland management for the market
  • High impact extractive industries
  • Small-scale forest or woodland based enterprises
  • Directions for market research
    
• Longer term social, economic and environmental changes
  
• Policy, legislation and macroeconomic impacts on woodlands
  • Impacts of forestry and natural resource policies and legislation
  • Intersectoral policy linkages
    • Agricultural and other land-use policies
    • Structural adjustment and the environment
  • Are miombo woodlands valuable? For whom and for what?
    • Valuation ... again
    • Revising systems of national accounts
  • Woodland conservation and management. Optimizing land use in the drylands of southern Africa
  • Scope for research
    
• Woodland research options and opportunities: a summary
  
• References