Clark Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom (Chapter 1): We wish to thank the Forests, Trees and People Programme at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for their consistent support since the initiation of the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research program. The entire program would have been inconceivable but for their consistent support throughout the years. We wish to particularly thank Marilyn Hoskins, Krister Andersson, Hivy Ortiz, and Katherine Warner. We also wish to thank the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Science Foundation for their support of individual projects within this broad research program. We also thank the colleagues and students for the hard work and thoughtful criticisms they have contributed to the IFRI research program over the years. Special thanks also to Patty Dalecki for her invaluable skills and effort in the editing and preparation of this volume.
Margaret A. McKean (Chapter 2): This paper was presented at the International Conference on Chinese Rural Collectives and Voluntary Organizations: Between State Organization and Private Interest, Sinological Institute, University of Leiden, 9-13 January 1995, and is based on portions that I contributed to a paper coauthored with Elinor Ostrom, "Common Property Regimes in the Forest: Just a Relic from the Past?," Unasylva 46(180) (January 1995), 3-15. I would like to thank David Feeny and an anonymous reviewer for thoughtful suggestions. I remain responsible for any errors.
Arun Agrawal (Chapter 3): I owe this paper, in more ways 6M I as mention, to the immense cooperation I received from villagers in Kumaon and the Kumaon Forest Panchayat Research Team. Special thanks go to Sushree Meenakshi Shailaja and Sri Nikunj Bharati, Taradutt Pandey, and Tara Singh Bisht. Mark Baker, Clark Gibson, Margaret McKean, Elinor Ostrom, Kimberly Pfeifer, Jesse Ribot, Mary Beth Wertime, and Jonathan Lindsay provided valuable comments through the various drafts of this paper. Discussions at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, Indiana, as we worked on the IFRI instruments, proved invaluable' during fieldwork. I would also like to acknowledge the cheerful help I received from Julie England and Joby Jerrells in the analysis of data for the paper. Patty Dalecki was, as usual, sterling in her editorial efforts. Grants from the Division of Sponsored Research, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, and the World Wildlife Fund made the fieldwork possible. The research was also assisted by a grant from the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.
Abwoli Y Banana and William Gombya-Ssembajjwe (Chapter 4): We would like to thank the residents of the settlements around Echuya, Mbale, Bukaleba, Lwamunda and Namungo Forests. We would also like to thank the Ufric team Members: A. Nakaweesi, G. Nabanoga, M. Kapiriri, P. Kizito, J. Bahati, G. Mwanbu, S. Sekindi, and S. Matovu. We would also like to thank E. Ostrom and C. Gibson for the helpful comments on the manuscript.
Charles M. Schweik (Chapter 5): I am very appreciative of the support received from the Ford Foundation and Dr. John Ambler. The FTPP of the Food and Agriculture Organization has also been quite helpful through on-going support to the IFRI program. Special thanks go to Mr. Rajendra Shrestha, Director of the Nepal Forestry Resources and Institutions Consortium, and his team, Bharat Mani Sharma, Mukunda Karmacharya, Vaskar Thapa, and Sudil Gopal Acharya for their efforts in data collection. I am also grateful to K.N. Pandit, K.R. Adhikari, A.K. Shukla, Ganesh Shivakoti, and the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science in Rampur, Chitwan, for their assistance in the field. I am indebted to Dusty Becker, Brenda Bushouse, Clark Gibson, Joby Jerrells, Robert and Joanne Schweik, and John Williams for helpful comments on earlier drafts. Finally, I am deeply grateful for the kindness and support given by the residents of the Shaktikhor VDC.
C. Dustin Becker and Clark Gibson (Chapter 6): The authors would like to thank Carmen Bonifaz de Elao, Professor of Botany at the University of Guayaquil, for her help in directing, collecting, and analyzing forest plot data; the support of Earthwatch and its volunteers for their hard work in carrying out this study; and Joby Jerrells, Miriam Lewis, Claude Nathan, Elinor Ostrom, George Varughese, and Rich Wolford for their constructive comments on this paper.
C. Dustin Becker and Rosario Leon (Chapter 7): We thank Julie England and Robin Humphrey for assistance with data compilation. Clark Gibson, Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq, and Elinor Ostrom kindly critiqued early drafts of the paper. Funding for fieldwork and the opportunity for the authors to collaborate was provided by FAO, Ford Foundation, CIPEC, CERES, and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis of Indiana University. We recognize the following IFRI researchers who made this synthesis possible: José Antonio Arrueta, Nelson Castellón, Daniel Chávez Orosco, Freddy Cruz, Antonio Guzmán Suárez, Fernando Miranda, Ignacio Nuñez Ichu, Juan Carlos Parada Galindo, Antonio Patiño Salazar, Benancio Rodriguez Bolivar, Miguel Rodriguez Chávez, Patricia Uberhuaga, and Galia Vargas.
George Varughese (Chapter 8): I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Forests, Trees and People Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Population Fund (INT/94/040), the Hills Leasehold Forestry and Forage Development Project of His Majesty's Government of Nepal/FAO/IFAD, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. This paper is the first of a series of comparative studies of forest institutions drawing on the International Forestry Resources and Institutions research program in Nepal which is currently coordinated by Keshav Kanel and Shree Gobind Shah. I thank the members of the program team, especially Parsu Ram Acharya, Sudil Gopal Acharya, Mukunda Karmacharya, and Birendra Karna for their diligence and support during fieldwork, and the Nepali villagers who were generous and patient with our inquiries during visits to their locations. I am grateful to Elinor Ostrom and Clark Gibson for detailed comments on several drafts of this paper. I also acknowledge Paul Turner, Robin Humphrey, and Neeraj Joshi for their help at various stages of preparing this paper.
