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Understanding People's Views on Deforestation Issues: a Village Perspective of Nepal's Central Tarai

In recent years, the problems of deforestation in developing countries have received increasing attention amongst academicians, conservationists and development planners. This is largely because over the last thirty years or so there has been a steady reduction of the land area under forests (Manshard, 1974) and the socioeconomic and environmental effects of this process such as soil erosion, water depletion, shortage of fuelwood and other essential forest products within rural areas have become increasingly visible (Eckholm, 1976; IUCN, 1980; Munslow