Community Participation and Forest Governance : From State Centric to People Centric Approach through analysis of Joint Forest Management

This paper tries to explore role of community participation in forest governance through analysis of various policies and Acts and their impact on present scenario.Paper discusses how policies and act by government have evolved from revenue generation to conservation of forests.How forests management have taken centre stage in this era of global warming, natural disasters and human made calamities.It also emphasises on the importance of synergy between environment and people by taking forward concept of Sustainable Development.It explores the field of Environment Sociology which is fairly new but necessity of today's world.In this paper there is a discussion about improvement in policies to strength the core of forest conservation through the help of participatory action of community and government.It also tries to draw conclusion and some suggestion.