Social Relationships towards Nature Indian Forests as Amalgamations of Multifold National Interests
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https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2017/v143i2/113592Keywords:
Indian Forest Policy, Remodeling Indian Forest Administration, Indian Forests as a Social Resource, Indian Forest as a Multi-Interests' Realm.Abstract
Ever since Indian forests are undergoing processes of change. Policy-, usufruct-, silvicultural- and climatic changes are constantly re-shaping them and their role for the Indian society at large. At present, the adaptation capacity of forestrelated institutions in general and the Indian Forest Service in particular have to get into their new roles as socially responsible mediators to meet the future societal demands that are challenging the rationale of a now a days merely administrative service.
The various phases of changing forest policies and laws during the colonial and the post-colonial phase of forest administration were not in a position to solve the problems and do away with the contradictions which were caused by many opposing interests in the Indian forests and their products, be it timber or non-timber. To face this challenge of manifold and often contradicting interests in their biological and climatic functions, their societal and economic uses, asks for changes in the mind-set of those who are responsible for their maintenance. The legacy of the age-old Indian tradition of a social relationship towards nature may help in this respect even in modern times. To re-define the forest-society relationship for the future is essential for all measures at the grass-roots level.
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