Criterion – B: Forest management provides access to the resource

Consultant's Initials:

PW

Source:

CIFOR-BAG

Identification No. in source:

1.1

 

Final Identification No. (as reported in final list):

B

Class:

Social

Recommendation (after field testing)

Yes

Box A:

Enter the selected criterion as stated in the source document in this space:

Original Wording: Local management is effective in controlling maintenance of, and access to, the resource.

Final Wording: Forest management provides access to the resource.

Box B: Attributes

Rated on a scale of 1-5, where 1=no/bad/unimportant and 5=yes/good/important

original revised original

revised

(a)

(j)

(a)

(j)

Precisely defined? (clear)

3

4

Will it produce replicable results?

(reliable)

N/A

N/A

Diagnostically specific ? (valid)

2

4

Is it applicable for all landowners?

Yes

Yes

Sensitive?

N/A

N/A

Is it applicable to other areas/ecosystems? (robust)

5

5

Easy to detect, record and interpret?

N/A

N/A

How relevant is this criterion?

5

5

Useable?

3

5

Box C:

Justify your selection of the Criterion in Box A. Please ensure you discuss its relationship to theory:

Forest management guarantees stakeholder’s security and sufficiency of access to resources within and across generations. This relies on the premise that the resources themselves are not depleted or destroyed. The relationship of this criterion to sustainable management is based on three assumptions:

    1. Forests in the North American context are predominantly common pool resources consequently access is a public right;
    2. People are more likely to manifest stewardship towards forests from which they derive benefit, and;
    3. People tend to be more willing to sacrifice immediate gain from activities that may degrade resources where they are certain that their children will benefit.

This criterion was reworded for clarity and to combine elements of CIFOR-BAG principle 1.0. Specifically, the word ‘local’ was removed as the scale of who manages the forest management unit works at multi-scales in the North American context. The word ‘effective’ was difficult to define at the criterion stage and subsequently was replaced with the word ‘provides’ – a more neutral word. The concept ‘controlling maintenance of’ the resource in the original wording was removed as management activities were included in the CIFOR-BAG criterion 2.0 and in the management criterion CIFOR 1.0, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4. As finally worded, we felt the criterion contained implicitly both inter and intra-generational aspects that were included in the original CIFOR-BAG principle 1.0 and CIFOR-BAG criterion 1.1.

Box D:

Provide bibliographic references (if any) which support your selection of this Criterion for evaluation:

Colfer, C.J.P., Wadley, R.L., Hartwell, E., and R. Prabhu. 1997. Intergenerational Access to Resources: Developing Criteria and Indicators. Working Paper No. 18, CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.

Ostrom, E., 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Ostrom, E. 1994. Neither Market nor State: Governance of Common Pool Resources in the Twenty-First Century. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.

Box E:

Please name (give the reference of) the Criterion that overlap (come closest) to the Criterion that has been selected for evaluation:

CIFOR: -

CIFOR – BAG: -

CCFM: 6.1 5.0

Idaho: -

GFE: -

Box G: Geo-Political:

Evaluate the geo-political scale on which the Criterion operates. Multiple-entries are possible but care should be taken to determine the primary thrust of the criterion.

Justify:

 original revised

(a)

(j)

Global

X

X

North America

X

X

Intermountain

X

X

West

Study area

X

X

Tenure

X

X

Site

X

X

Box H: Function:
Classify Criterion according to whether it refers to the structure of the system (biophysical, social or management), function of the system, describes its composition or describes perturbations to the system.

Justify:

 original revised

(a)

(j)

Structure

Function

Composition

Perturbation

Not Applicable

x

x

Box I: Linkages

Identify linkages between Criterion, to ensure that the same or similar information is not collected twice and to ascertain whether the necessary feedback loops exist between Criterion.

Information for this criteria is relevant to economic criteria with respect to how benefits are allocated.

Box J:

Final version of Criterion, state only if different to definition in Box A:

Forest management provides access to the resource