Contested Institutional Reform in India's Forested Landscapes
Why is there such a close coincidence between forest landscapes, tribal groups and poverty in India? Why has the acute poverty prevalent in these areas not reduced in recent years as it has for other group And is forest rights reform the solution? This series of papers from an IPPG project team across Eastern India and led by Oliver Springate-Baginski (University of East Anglia) considers the long term trajectory of rights deprivations and rights reform in India’s forest landscapes. Our findings show how despite de jure reform, securing de facto rights remains very difficult for marginalised social groups, in the context of asymmetrical power relations with the ‘street-level bureaucracy’ and lack of avenues for access to justice.
| Redressing 'historical injustice' through the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006: A Historical Institutional analysis of contemporary forest rights reform (PDF, 237KB) |
O. Springate-Baginski, M. Sarin, S. Ghosh, P. Dasgupta, I. Bose, A. Banerjee, K. Sarap, P. Misra, S. Behera, M.G Reddy and P.T. Rao |
September 2009 |
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| How did the Indian Forest Rights Act, 2006, emerge? (PDF, 348KB) |
Indranil Bose |
May 2010 |
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| India's Forest Rights Act -The anatomy of a necessary but not sufficient institutional reform (PDF, 389KB) |
Madhu Sarin with Oliver Springate-Baginski |
June 2010 |
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| The Creation of West Bengal's Forest Underclass : An Historical Institutional Analysis of Forest Rights Deprivations PDF, 683KB) |
Ajit Banerjee, Soumitra Ghosh and Oliver Springate-Baginski |
December 2010 |
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| Obstructed Access to Forest Justice in West Bengal: State Violations in the Mis-Implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 (PDF, 672KB) |
Ajit Banerjee, Soumitra Ghosh and Oliver Springate-Baginski |
September 2010 |
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| The Making of Andhra's Forest Underclass: An Historical Institutional Analysis of Forest Right Deprivations (PDF, 549KB) |
M Gopinath Reddy, K Anil Kumar, P Trinadha Rao and Oliver Springate-Baginski |
June 2010 |
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| Obstructed Access to Forest Justice: an Institutional Analysis of the Implementation of Rights Reform in Andhra's Forested Landscapes (PDF, 822KB) |
M. Gopinath Reddy, K. Anil Kumar, P. Trinadha Rao and Oliver Springate-Baginski |
September 2010 |
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| Impacting Livelihoods through Institutional Innovations: Income and Food Security from the Indian Forest Rights Act (PDF,527KB) |
Purnamita Dasgupta |
September 2010 |
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