Exploring village governance processes behind Community- Based Forest Management: legitimacy and coercion in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania

摘要: SUMMARY Democratic forest decentralization is often justified by expectations of greater management effectiveness and increased equity access to benefits; yet these outcomes do not always coincide. It proposed that enhance understanding the theoretically progressive decentralized policies in varying dynamic contexts, processes through which legitimacy local regimes constructed contested needs be better understood. This case study northeastern Tanzania finds current Community-Based Forest Management, favouring conservation over exploitation, precariously depend on claims embedded intra-community social political dynamics. To broaden bases community governance, its long-term sustainability, structures for improved deliberation, representation, accountability should supported.