Part 2. Diverse forms of participation.
This chapter has an introduction and three papers. In the first the authors examine "organizational structure, performance and participation" in Nepal. They describe a study of forest user groups. The second paper raises questions concerning the meaning of "community", "local" and "indigenous" by reviewing the history of local forest management in a region of the Himalayas. It is the presence of a local guard to monitor harvest behaviour that is the most important institutional variable affecting performance.