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Forest People Interfaces

understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity

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Editors:
  1. Bas Arts
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  2. Séverine Bommel
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  3. Mirjam Ros-Tonen
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  4. Gerard Verschoor
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  • Aims at both academics and professionals in the field of forest-people interfaces
  • Offers a comprehensive and current review on social issues related to forests that other, more specialized publications, lack
  • Chapters show that economic development, political empowerment and environmental aims are not easily integrated

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-13
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  2. Forest-people interfaces: from local creativity to global concerns

    1. Forest-people interfaces: from local creativity to global concerns

      • Bas Arts, Severine van Bommel, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Gerard Verschoor
      Pages 15-26

  4. Community-based natural resource management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Discourses of community forestry

      • Wil de Jong
      Pages 107-120

    3. Conservancies in Namibia: a discourse in action

      • Maaike de Vette, Rose-Mary Kashululu, Paul Hebinck
      Pages 121-138

    4. REDD+: what’s in it for community forest management?

      • Margaret Skutsch
      Pages 139-148

    5. Learning from the actors: the rise and demise of a CBNRM initiative in Mexico

      • Nasim Musalem, Gerard Verschoor
      Pages 149-164

  5. Biocultural diversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Perceptions and values of local landscapes: implications for the conservation of biocultural diversity and intangible heritage

      • Michelle Cocks, Tony Dold
      Pages 167-179

    3. Biocultural diversity in the Netherlands: from ecologically noble savages towards biocultural creatives

      • Birgit H. M. Elands, C. S. A. (Kris) van Koppen
      Pages 181-193

    4. ‘Diversity (still) at stake’: a farmers’ perspective on biodiversity and conservation in Western Mexico

      • Peter R. W. Gerritsen
      Pages 195-209

    5. Governing biocultural diversity in mosaic landscapes

      • Cora J. van Oosten, Wouter Leen Hijweege
      Pages 211-222

    6. The (onto)politics of classifying biocultural diversity: a tale of chaos, order and control

      • Severine van Bommel, Esther Turnhout
      Pages 223-238

  6. Forest governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Forest governance: a state of the art review

      • Bas Art, Ingrid Visseren-Hamdkers
      Pages 241-257
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About this book

This book aims at both academics and professionals in the field of forest-people interfaces. It takes the reader on a journey through four major themes that have emerged since the initiation of 'social forestry' in the 1970s: non-timber forest products and agroforestry; community-based natural resource management; biocultural diversity; and forest governance. In so doing, the books offers a comprehensive and current review on social issues related to forests that other, more specialized publications, lack. It is also theory-rich, offering both mainstream and critical perspectives, and presents up-to-date empirical materials. Reviewing these four major research themes, the main conclusion of the book is that naïve optimism associated with forest-people interfaces should be tempered. The chapters show that economic development, political empowerment and environmental aims are not easily integrated. Hence local landscapes and communities are not as 'makeable' as is often assumed. Events that take place on other scales might intervene; local communities might not implement policies locally; and governance practices might empower governments more than communities. This all shows that we should go beyond community-based ideas and ideals, and look at practices on the ground.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Forest People Interfaces

  • Book Subtitle: understanding community forestry and biocultural diversity

  • Editors: Bas Arts, Séverine Bommel, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Gerard Verschoor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-749-3

  • Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers Wageningen

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Wageningen Academic Publishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-8686-749-3Published: 22 May 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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