Forest Governance Transitions in Bangladesh

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dc.contributor.advisorDavidsen, Conny
dc.contributor.authorSiddique, Asraf
dc.contributor.committeememberChowdhury, Khairul
dc.contributor.committeememberAlonso-Yanez, Gabriela
dc.contributor.committeememberRice, Roberta
dc.contributor.committeememberMcKay, Ben
dc.date2021-11
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-06T21:44:16Z
dc.date.available2021-07-06T21:44:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.description.abstractForests are becoming an ever-important centre of focus in the backdrop of climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries has become a global approach to combat climate change by making forest carbon as a tradable commodity. Many developing countries like Bangladesh have joined in this bandwagon of REDD+ and currently at various phases of implementation. However, like many other developing countries, the governance situation in the forestry sector has been called into question due to its centralized nature of operation, lack of active participation of the people, and violation of rights of the indigenous people. Also, forest regions have a unique colonial upbringing that aims to exploit the forest for revenue generation by making forest exclusive state property. Due to the diverse origin of forest conservancies in Bangladesh and different historical backdrops and conflicts in the forested regions, a one size fits all policy have remained faulty and weak in addressing such problems. This research aimed to explore the historical origin of forest conservancies in Bangladesh and track down the root causes of the forestry sector's current challenges for decades. The findings suggest that the forested regions have unique sets of challenges and those challenges have roots in the historical development of conservancies. Even after trying for four decades of participatory forestry, peoples participation remained tokenistic. Bangladesh also has been implementing collaborative management in the protected areas of the forests. The findings suggest that due to donor and supply-driven approaches, the collaborative management approach remained weak to address the existing challenges. Moreover, as a state, Bangladesh does not recognize the rights of the indigenous people by not even recognizing them as indigenous and continued to use a derogatory approach of identifying them as “small ethnic minority”. Using a post-structural political ecology approach, this research analyses the discourse of forest policy development involving multi-level actors and found critical concerns remained and must be recognized and negotiated to identify forest region-specific challenges to be more inclusive of the rights of the indigenous people.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSiddique, A. (2021). Forest governance transitions in Bangladesh (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38986
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113597
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectDiscourse analysisen_US
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen_US
dc.subjectCollaborative managementen_US
dc.subjectForest historyen_US
dc.subjectParticipatory forestryen_US
dc.subjectGovernmentalityen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmentalityen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous rightsen_US
dc.subjectForest governanceen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationEconomics--Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationEconomics--Theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationGeographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationHistory--Asia, Australia, and Oceaniaen_US
dc.subject.classificationForestry and Wildlifeen_US
dc.subject.classificationEnvironmental Sciencesen_US
dc.titleForest Governance Transitions in Bangladeshen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGeographyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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