Overview
- Gives basic background information on social forestry’s development
- Accessible approach to complex issues of forest sustainability
- Presents examples of social forestry applications in different contexts
Part of the book series: World Forests (WFSE, volume 11)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests. During this time, forests have provided people with countless goods and services, including wood, medicine, food, clean water and recreation. In making use of forest resources, people throughout history have frequently organized themselves and established both formal and informal rules.
However, just as the discipline of Forestry had previously limited and concentrated the function of forests to the timber it provides, the popular understanding of Social Forestry has restricted it to a Forestry sub-topic that deals with welfare, without any connection to income-generation, and is practiced only in developing countries.
This volume introduces the concepts of Social Forestry to the student, gives examples of its practice around the world and attempts to anticipate developments in its future. It aims to widen the concept of Social Forestry from a sub-practice within Forestry to a practice that will make Forestry relevant in countries where wood production alone is no longer the main reason for keeping land forested, thereby rediscovering and redefining this important topic.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Growing from Seed
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Social Forestry
Authors: Celeste Lacuna-Richman
Series Title: World Forests
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2317-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2249-1Published: 05 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3743-3Published: 29 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2317-7Published: 05 October 2011
Series ISSN: 0785-8388
Series E-ISSN: 1566-0427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 100
Topics: Forestry Management, Forestry, Social Sciences, general, Ecology, Nature Conservation