‘We are Scared to Say No’: Facing Foreign Timber Companies in Sierra Leone's Community Woodlands
研究了塞拉利昂社区林地管理中，外国（尤其是中国）木材公司的非法采伐如何威胁地方生计和资源管理，揭示了分权政策与外部投资之间的冲突。
Abstract In recent years, ‘decentralisation’ has become an increasingly prominent theme in Sub-Saharan African development theory and practice, particularly around woodland management. Although much research has illuminated challenges arising in project design and implementation, ‘external’ threats to decentralised resource management initiatives have received little attention. At the same time, however, there has been a massive increase in foreign, particularly Chinese, corporate investment in the extraction of African resources. This paper examines the importance of the interaction between these two trends to local livelihoods and resource management through a case study of illegal logging by Chinese companies in Sierra Leone.