The aim of this study is to explore the legal environment of forest utilization from the perspective of an individual user. Here, law is defined very broadly in order to be able to capture what the people concerned perceive and experience as the relevant rules. This allows including all normative orders irrespective of their source and avoids analytically tying the notion of law to the state’s authority only.
Sylvia Ebersberger
conservation forestry land tenure legal pluralism property rights rainforest