However efficient forest governance requires a common preference
for the resource and mutual trust among resource users is a critical
determinant of collective action among them (Ostrom, 1990). FPC
members differentiated by economic status and socio-cultural history
may find arriving at a consensus regarding forestmanagement difficult.
These differences shape the preferences of individual members for
different services from the forest, which in turn lead to different
responses tomanagement regimes and impede formation of consensus
among resource users (Kant, 2000: 288). Social groups within the FPC
have different patterns of dependence on forest resource and the
diversity in forest products influences their decisions to participate in its
management.