Management Arrangements of the Chaprote Forest and Their Implications for Sustainable Development (Environmental Management) (Chaprote, Pakistan) (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION This presentation is a more comprehensive version of the paper that has been circulated. The paper examines the terms of access to the resources of the Chaprote forest in the Nagar valley of Northern Pakistan, before and since 1972. In 1972, the Nagar valley became part of the Federally Administered Areas of Pakistan. The political transformation of the regime, was contiguous with changes in the economic situation, which affected local requirements, allocation, and access to natural resources. Our analysis hence, focuses on some of the excesses and inadequacies of regimes being incorporated within a political economy on the one hand, and being subjected to interventions at odds with local potential and former systems of managing and exploiting local resources on the other. Our aim is to make suggestions for better management, conservation and development of forest resources. This exercise includes the concern of environmentalists, among other issues, over-conserving finite natural resources, and maintaining a symbiosis between regeneration and depletion of renewable natural resources [Dubois (1976); Rapoport (1978); Sachs (1978, 1980) and Simonis (n.d)].