Is there decentralization in North Korea? Evidence and lessons from the sloping land management program 2004-2014

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• 作者：Jun He^a ; ^b ; ^{jun.he@ynu.edu.cn} ; Jianchu Xu^c
• 关键词：Access to land ; Agroforestry ; Community-based natural resource management ; Food security ; Forest recovery ; Timber rights
• 刊名：Land Use Policy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：61
• 期：Complete
• 页码：113-125
• 全文大小：2813 K
• 卷排序：61

文摘

In North Korea, food and energy shortages have pressured people to cut trees for fuelwood and to cultivate steep slopes for agriculture. The North Korean government is carrying out a decentralization reform to grant land-use rights to user groups to improve food security and rehabilitate steep slopes. The decentralization initiative has generated positive environmental, socioeconomic and policy outcomes. Institutional and geopolitical challenges are limiting the potential to scale-up this decentralization initiative across the country.