Regional Sustainability ›› 2023, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (4): 441-452.doi: 10.1016/j.regsus.2023.11.002
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BASU Aishwaryaa,*(), Prakash BASU Jyotishb
Received:
2023-01-26
Revised:
2023-08-20
Accepted:
2023-11-12
Online:
2023-12-30
Published:
2024-01-09
Contact:
BASU Aishwarya
E-mail:aishwaryabasu1996@gmail.com
BASU Aishwarya, Prakash BASU Jyotish. Impact of forest governance and enforcement on deforestation and forest degradation at the district level: A study in West Bengal State, India[J]. Regional Sustainability, 2023, 4(4): 441-452.
Table 1
Forest policy assessment in Asian countries in 2008 and 2018."
Country | Legal and institutional framework | Regulating demand | Rule of law | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | 2018 | 2008 | 2018 | 2008 | 2018 | |
China | Weak | Weak | Fair | Fair | Weak | Weak |
India | - | Failing | - | Weak | - | Weak |
Japan | Weak | Fair | Weak | Very good | Failing | Weak |
Thailand | - | Weak | - | Fair | - | Weak |
Indonesia | Weak | Fair | Weak | Weak | Weak | Good |
Malaysia | Failing | Weak | Failing | Weak | Fair | Fair |
South Korea | - | Fair | - | Good | - | Fair |
Table 2
Distribution of the sample households across different villages in Purulia, Bankura, and Paschim Medinipur districts."
Purulia District | Bankura District | Paschim Medinipur District | ||||||
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Village | Total number of households | Number of the sample households | Village | Total number of households | Number of the sample households | Village | Total number of households | Number of the sample households |
Bandhghutu | 150 | 13 | Kamo | 163 | 33 | Upper Patrisole | 135 | 24 |
Tarpenia | 100 | 23 | Makhnu | 85 | 17 | Lower Patrisole | 126 | 28 |
Perorgoria | 130 | 32 | Bagdiha | 40 | 8 | Kastokura | 41 | 9 |
Rabidi | 75 | 22 | Mitham | 120 | 38 | Dhabani | 40 | 8 |
Charida | 110 | 31 | Jamgeria | 114 | 26 | Aushbandi | 150 | 31 |
Lawadi | 220 | 43 | Barapatcha | 120 | 10 | Godasole | 142 | 29 |
Bagti | 222 | 44 | Mahadebsinan | 186 | 26 | Fulsason | 67 | 14 |
Ichakota | 156 | 18 | Kadmagarh | 50 | 24 | Dharnadihi | 65 | 20 |
Nischintapur | 85 | 26 | Kalabani | 130 | 24 | Chandabila | 151 | 34 |
Dhankura | 130 | 22 | Ichalkoda | 52 | 16 | |||
Total | 1248 | 252 | Total | 1138 | 228 | Total | 969 | 213 |
Table 4
Performance of forest governance in Purulia, Bankura, and Paschim Medinipur districts."
District | Performance of forest governance | Performance of forest governance index | |||||
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Rule of law index | Transparency index | Accountability index | Participation index | Inclusiveness and equitability index | Efficiency and effectiveness index | ||
Purulia | Medium | Medium | Medium | Good | Good | Good | Medium |
Bankura | Poor | Good | Poor | Medium | Good | Medium | Medium |
Paschim Medinipur | Poor | Poor | Poor | Good | Medium | Poor | Poor |
Table 5
Enforcement index values in Purulia, Bankura, and Paschim Medinipur districts."
Index | Purulia District | Bankura District | Paschim Medinipur District | All districts |
---|---|---|---|---|
Forest patrols | 0.528 | 0.252 | 0.568 | 0.449 |
Reporting of illegal activities | 0.011 | 0.616 | 0.289 | 0.609 |
Need of permission to collect or harvest forest product | 0.767 | 0.412 | 0.055 | 0.431 |
Issuance of permit by the correct authority | 0.698 | 0.524 | 0.115 | 0.462 |
Enforcement index | 0.501 | 0.451 | 0.257 | 0.488 |
Table 6
Basic statistics of independent and dependent variables in the logistic regression model."
Variable | Mean | Standard deviation | Minimum | Maximum | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent variable | Forest governance index | 0.37 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.90 |
Enforcement index | 0.49 | 0.33 | 0.00 | 1.00 | |
Education index | 0.22 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.92 | |
Land holdings (hm2/household) | 0.21 | 0.28 | 0.00 | 1.36 | |
Forest income (%) | 17.41 | 16.65 | 0.00 | 100.00 | |
Age of households (years old) | 48.01 | 12.98 | 20.00 | 82.00 | |
Caste of households (scheduled castes=1, scheduled tribes=2, other backward class=3, and general castes=4) | 2.29 | 0.95 | 1.00 | 4.00 | |
Dependent variable | Probability of deforestation | 0.47 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
Table 7
Estimates of logistic regression model."
Variable | Forest governance index | Enforcement index | Education index | Land holdings | Forest income | Age of households | Caste of households |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intercept | 1.430* (0.229) | 1.880* (0.250) | 1.890* (0.291) | 1.843* (0.840) | 1.840* (0.293) | 2.034* (0.412) | 2.040* (0.427) |
Forest governance index | -4.226* (0.588) | -3.224* (0.613) | -3.223* (0.619) | -3.346* (0.625) | -3.378* (0.656) | -3.353* (0.657) | -3.342* (0.662) |
Enforcement index | -1.727* (0.266) | -1.721* (0.268) | -1.725* (0.267) | -1.736* (0.275) | -1.735* (0.275) | -1.728* (0.280) | |
Education index | -0.003 (0.491) | -0.198 (0.503) | -0.182 (0.513) | -0.195 (0.513) | -0.179 (0.525) | ||
Land holdings | 0.042** (0.020) | 0.042** (0.021) | 0.456** (0.022) | 0.045* (0.022) | |||
Forest income | 0.001 (0.006) | 0.002 (0.005) | 0.001 (0.005) | ||||
Age of households | -0.004 (0.006) | -0.003 (0.006) | |||||
Caste of households | -0.013 (0.937) | ||||||
Statistical tests | |||||||
AIC | 1.304 | 1.243 | 1.246 | 1.140 | 1.246 | 1.249 | 1.251 |
LRchi2(x2) | 57.0 | 102.0 | 101.0 | 106.3 | 105.8 | 105.2 | 104.3 |
Pseudo R2 | 0.1050 | 0.2062 | 0.2062 | 0.2215 | 0.2105 | 0.2110 | 0.2110 |
Log likelihood | -450.04 | -427.91 | -427.91 | -425.86 | -425.85 | -425.62 | -425.61 |
Table S1
Description of main index of forest governance index."
Main index | Description | Response of the households in a three-point Likert scale | |
---|---|---|---|
Rule of law | Are there any formal rules regulating for forest use? | Yes, clear rules=1; yes, but vague=2; and no=3. | |
Is there any informal rule for the use of forest products? | Yes, but unclear=1; yes, clear rules=2; no=3; and don’t know=4. | ||
Do you know the timber brokers helping with deforestation due to leakage of forest laws? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Is there any weak forest administration? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Is there political intervention for illegal encroachment and illegal logging? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Is there any strong administration which helps to save reserve forest? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Transparency | Do you know permission to be taken from the forest protection committees beyond the specified level of forest product use? | Yes, need to inform the authorities=1; yes, written permission needed=2; no=3; and don’t know=4. | |
Is there any money involvement for getting permission for the extra collection of forest products? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Do you know any decisions taken from the meeting of the executive committee? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Do you know the agenda of meeting placed before the general body meeting? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Accountability | Are you regularly present in the general body meeting? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | |
Do you have any experience of tackling conflict if any? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | ||
Do you know the community members obey government rules? | Yes by everyone=1; yes by some=2; and no=3. | ||
Participation | Planning index | Forest boundary demarcation | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. |
Identifying forest users | |||
Participatory forest resource assessment | |||
Forest management committee election | |||
Encouraging others to participate | |||
Preparing forest management plan | |||
Developing forest management bye-laws | |||
Approval of forest management agreement | |||
Implementation index | Reforestation of degraded forest areas | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | |
Planting of fruit bearing trees such as mahua and mango | |||
Planting trees and management | |||
Nursery establishment | |||
Beekeeping | |||
Forest fire fighting | |||
Attending meetings | |||
Participation in knowledge and skill developing training | |||
Monitoring index | Follow up forest managements bye-laws | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | |
Helps forest patrolling | |||
Preventing illegal timber logging | |||
Supervise forest management plan implementation | |||
Forest boundary maintenance | |||
Inclusiveness and equitability | Do you know female member forms a self-help group? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. | |
Efficiency and effectiveness | Do you know that there has been an increase in the availability of wood and non-timber forest products in last 5 years? | Increased=1; no change=2; and decline=3. | |
Do you know the dependency of forest resources go down due to the successful implementation of poverty eradication programmes by the government? | Yes=1; no=2; and don’t know=3. |
Table S2
Forest governance index across the three western districts in West Bengal, India."
Main index | Description | Purulia District | Bankura District | Paschim Medinipur District | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rule of law | Government rules regulating forest use | 0.017 | 0.037 | 0.014 | |
Existence of any rule for use of forest product | 0.233 | 0.173 | 0.172 | ||
Encouragement for timber brokers for deforestation due to leakage in forest laws | 0.391 | 0.171 | 0.258 | ||
Weak forest administration leads deforestation | 0.044 | 0.092 | 0.035 | ||
Encouraging encroachers and illegal extraction due to political intervention | 0.619 | 0.447 | 0.366 | ||
Strong administration saves reserve forest | 0.276 | 0.101 | 0.106 | ||
Transparency | Need of permission to collect or harvest forest product | 0.233 | 0.589 | 0.055 | |
If yes, do the users have to pay | 0.585 | 0.796 | 0.415 | ||
Issuance of permit by the correct authority | 0.452 | 0.476 | 0.115 | ||
Clearance of the agenda of the meeting | 0.202 | 0.952 | 0.288 | ||
Accountability | Regular presence in the meeting of the Forest Protection Committee | 0.355 | 0.059 | 0.148 | |
Experience of conflict in last 5 years | 0.563 | 0.601 | 0.488 | ||
Obeying government rules by community members | 0.034 | 0.033 | 0.025 | ||
Participation | Planning index | Forest boundary demarcation | 0.578 | 0.318 | 0.533 |
Identifying forest users | 0.867 | 0.450 | 0.594 | ||
Participatory forest resource assessment | 0.579 | 0.439 | 0.627 | ||
Forest management committee election | 0.779 | 0.814 | 0.326 | ||
Encouraging others to participate | 0.639 | 0.636 | 0.575 | ||
Preparing forest management plan | 0.571 | 0.373 | 0.662 | ||
Developing forest management by laws | 0.577 | 0.404 | 0.662 | ||
Approval of forest management agreement | 0.857 | 0.395 | 0.674 | ||
Implementation index | Reforestation of degraded forest areas | 0.721 | 0.443 | 0.415 | |
Planting of fruit bearing trees such as mahua and mango | 0.700 | 0.669 | 0.467 | ||
Planting trees and management | 0.681 | 0.689 | 0.371 | ||
Nursery establishment | 0.742 | 0.487 | 0.315 | ||
Beekeeping | 0.468 | 0.456 | 0.577 | ||
Forest fire fighting | 0.677 | 0.779 | 0.641 | ||
Attending meetings | 0.863 | 0.908 | 0.298 | ||
Participation in knowledge and skill developing training | 0.500 | 0.283 | 0.631 | ||
Monitoring index | Follow ups forest managements by law | 0.462 | 0.184 | 0.538 | |
Forest patrols | 0.528 | 0.252 | 0.568 | ||
Reporting of illegal activities | 0.873 | 0.833 | 0.289 | ||
Supervise forest management plan implementation | 0.521 | 0.167 | 0.707 | ||
Forest boundary maintenance | 0.511 | 0.272 | 0.617 | ||
Inclusiveness and equitability | Self-help group formation for female members | 0.579 | 0.509 | 0.376 | |
Efficiency and effectiveness | Changes in the availability of wood and non-timber forest product in the last five years | 0.536 | 0.446 | 0.119 | |
Poverty eradication programme reduce dependency on forest products | 0.472 | 0.149 | 0.063 | ||
Forest governance index | 0.446 | 0.397 | 0.302 |
Table S3
Description of sub-indices of enforcement index."
Sub-index | Description |
---|---|
Preventing illegal logging | Whether the communities detect an illegal logging? (Yes=1, no=2, and don’t know=3) |
Forest patrolling | Whether the communities’ patrols work for forest? (Yes=1, no=2, and don’t know=3) |
Rules for getting permission to collect forest product | Whether there are any strict rule for getting permission to collect forest products beyond the specified amount? (Yes=1, no=2, and don’t know=3) |
Permissions issued by appropriate authority | Whether the permission is issued by Forest Protection committee? (Yes=1, no=2, and don’t know=3) |
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