Community Forest Management : A bibliography

CFM has taken many forms involving varying degrees of autonomy for communities and, conversely, state involvement. These variations emerge from the varying rationales for CFM, ranging from arguments from the common pool resource literature or conservation effectiveness to rights-based arguments that invoke human rights, rights of indigenous peoples, and democratic rights of local communities over their resources.

We provide a sampling of the global literature and specifically from four countries or regions from the Global South (countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico, Nepal, and India) where CFM has been extensive, and provide one section on North America and Europe as representing the Global North, where some pockets of CFM exist.