Democracy and natural resources -- Theoretical foundation of decentralization's potential environmental benefits -- Local accountability - institutional choices in practice -- Responsiveness of local institutions - power and capacity -- Lessons learned -- Recommendations -- Annex A: WRI research...

"This paper analyzes how women's participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India's flagship program to...

This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of...