Arguing that policy solutions to resource dilemmas faced by forest-accessing rural communities must be flexible and allow for grass-roots dynamics and local innovations to take place, this book presents case studies from Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam and Thailand.

The contributors argue that the variety of contextual situations in Asia requires an equally diverse set of institutional solutions for sustainable decentralized forest management. Some articles of interest to Nepalese foresters community include:

• Evolution and Impacts of Community-based Forest Management in the Hills of Nepal. Ambika P. Gautam and Ganesh P. Shivakoti
• Implications of Leasehold and Community Forestry for Poverty Alleviation. Mukunda Karmacharya, Birendra Karna and Elinor Ostrom
• Disentangling a Complex Web: Forests, People and Decentralization in Nepal. Harini Nagendra, Mukunda Karmacharya and Birendra Karna