Subject(s): Community forestry in India. -- Forest management in India in Citizen participation. -- Community forestry in Southeast Asia. -- Understanding participation mystique in community based forest management -- Institutional perspective of common pool resources, Indian forest management, Emergence of community based forest management (CBFM) -- Social identity and people's participation in CBFM -- Institutional governance influencing people's participation in CBFM -- Leadership and value congruence influencing people's participation in CBFM -- Social capital and peoples participation : Natural resource management, Social capital through self -initiated process, Economic development through social network, Building and preserving social capital through external assistance -- Policy and practices of community based forest management : JFM, Forest policy before 1988, Social forestry, June 1990 guidelines and joint forest management -- Forest management in South east Asia -- Self-initiated and NGO promoted CBFMs in India : Lapanga forest protection committee, Bichhakhani village forest protection, Badamala village forest, Bania forest protection committee, Forest protection movement of MP and Chhatisgarh, Ralegaon siddhi project experiance, National tree growers cooperative federation Limited (NTGCF)