When Access Fades: Rules in Use and Inequalities in Planned Omkareshwar National Park Complex, India
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https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.40.099Keywords:
indigenous, compensatory conservation, rules-in-use, access, forest livelihoods, IndiaAbstract
Compensatory conservation has emerged as a result of conflict between state development projects and the environmental movement. Planned Omkareshwar National Park Complex in Central India is a result of a resource control strategy to compensate the biodiversity loss from submergence and construction of Indira Sagar dam. This study investigates how the transitional moment from community to state-mandated institutional changes alter myriad relationships local people have with the forest resources. Through longitudinal ethnography, it examines how changing rules-in-use reshape different socio-economic impacts among different groups in proposed ONPC. A total of 145 surveys and 18 longitudinal qualitative interviews were conducted in 4 villages. The study concluded that instead of formal rules, local’s access depends on negotiations, economic power and social networks.
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