Common Property Resource Management: A Focus on Forestry

From a number of perspectives on the current debate around managing common property resources, this volume discusses a variety of topics, including forest rights, sacred groves, deforestation at high altitudes, e-governance issues, concerns over industrialization, and agro forestry produce as well as a host of other issues that underline forestry and its implication to economic growth in India. Arguing that the challenge lies in enabling new institutions and strengthening traditional ones that have worked well, this book offers a better understanding of the concepts governing property rights and demonstrates how they are central to the manner in which markets develop in today’s universe of inclusive growth.

Amir Ullah Khan is an electronics and communication engineer at Osmania University, the dean and director of research at the Bangalore Management Academy, and an adjunct professor of business and law at the Edith Cowan University. He has also worked on various research projects for the European Commission, National Council for Applied Economic Research, Planning Commission, and the World Bank. He is the author of The WTO Deadlocked: Understanding the Dynamics of International Trade. Mousumi Majumdar is a senior faculty member at Bangalore Management Academy and a researcher with more than 10 years of experience. She is also a former research associate at Visva Bharati University and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a former data analyst at Bank of America.