Forest resources provide innumerable benefits to various elements and stakeholders who form part of the ‘nature’. The immediate and tangible benefits are those enjoyed by living creatures, particularly the human beings. Forest resources also benefit tens of millions of people living in and...

Introduction: The main focus of the dissertation is locating social capital or lack of it in Community based development projects. Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) Programme in Karnataka, that requires beneficiary communities to work in collaboration with the implementing agency...