Facing the land constraint, decision makers have to make careful land-use choices between alternative productive activities, including both agricultural (pasture, forestry, etc.) and non-agricultural activities.
Although thousands of people obeyed the law and the forestry officials' procedures, most probably did not.
Analysis was performed on forestry-related workers as a representative occupational group with exposure to surface water but not to livestock animals.
Moreover, ' forestry laws and policies are contested, circumvented, selectively applied, interpreted and reinterpreted in their making and application ' (p. 56).
The emphasis is on conservation within a forestry framework, with traditional communities as participants.
Specifically, this includes the continuing adherence to a state forestry control over sandalwood stock that discourages conservation, commercialization and farm forestry production.
However, this is not true in all villages, and this is probably what has marred many social forestry projects.
Accounting for forest carbon can also be valuable in developed countries for promoting a switch in land use from agriculture to forestry.
