The authors make clear the steps involved in conducting PAR correctly. This is valuable because, within the development and conservation worlds, there is a great deal of very superficial effort that is labelled “participatory” but does not meet the standards we feel are needed – standards that are made clear in this story. This is also valuable in laying the groundwork for the analyses to follow, providing a common understanding of what is being discussed (ACM/PAR), an understanding that might not otherwise exist (see Chapter 3 or Colfer et al. 2011).

Authors: Colfer, C.J.P.; Prabhu, R.; Larson, A.M.

Subjects: landscape conservation, community forestry, forest management, governance

Publication type: Chapter-R, Publication

Year: 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197256-2