Contains i) Promoting Active Community Participation in community-based conservation; ii) Lead Paper on Joint Forest Planning and Management; iii) A Report on the Construction of an office building for Village Forest Committee Kotekoppa, Banavasi Range; iv) Joint Forest Planning and Management with reference to livestock in the farming systems of Uttara Kannada- A Discussion Paper; v) Constructing the 'Local' Decentralising Forest Management; vi) Joint Forest Management Superior Property Rights; vii) Evolution of Joint Forest Management in South west Bengal: A Subaltern detail; viii) Report on the Workshop of Joint Forest Management; ix) Alternative Draft on JFM Government Order, x) Extract of the project document on Joint Forest Planning and Management, x) Programme in a tribal village of Maharashtra by J J Roy Burman, xi) People's Participation in Joint Forest Planning and Management.