Combining Ethnography and Case Study Research Designs in Studying Forestry Co-Management Approaches

Abstract

The paper discusses how a combination of ethnographic and case study research designs can be appropriate in studying forestry co-management approaches and gives a step per step explanation of the methods that can be used for collecting data, ethical considerations, data analysis and selection of the interviewees in a combined ethnographic and case study research designs scenario to study forestry co-management approaches. It further shows how a researcher can take various decisions during field work when using the ethnographic and case study research designs scenarios to study forest co-management approaches in order to obtain as credible results as possible. It is concluded in the paper that a combination of ethnographic and case study research designs are suitable for studying forest co-management approaches. However, despite the widely acknowledged potential inherent in the ethnographic design, there is still hesitation in adopting and accepting ethnography as a mode of studying forest co-management approaches most properly because of the time required to study forestry co-management approaches