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Sep 2026
From Community Forestry to Buffer Zone Community Forestry: A Systematic Review of Governance Shifts, Socio-ecological Outcomes and Policy Challenges in Nepal
Nepal has spent more than four decades developing one of the world's most recognized community forestry (CF) programs, handing day to day forest management responsibilities to local forest user groups. More recently, forests located within the buffer zones of protected areas (PAs) have been reclassified as Buffer Zon...
Rajeev Joshi, Han Zhang, T. Maraseni et al.
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