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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785385403321

Titolo

The equitable forest : diversity, community, and resource management / / editor, Carol J. Pierce Colfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2004

ISBN

1-936331-67-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 pages)

Disciplina

634.920913

Soggetti

Forest management - Tropics - Citizen participation

Sustainable forestry - Tropics - Citizen participation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Equitable Forest Diversity, Community, and Resource Management; Copyright.; Contents; Foreword; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; The Struggle for Equity in Forest Management; PART I. ASIA; CHAPTER 1. Negotiating More Than Boundaries in Indonesia; CHAPTER 2. Dealing with Overlapping Access Rights in Indonesia; CHAPTER 3. Participation and Decisionmaking in Nepal; CHAPTER 4. Scientists in Social Encounters: The Case for an Engaged Practice of Science; PART II. AFRICA; CHAPTER 5. From Diversity to Exclusion for Forest Minorities in Cameroon

CHAPTER 6. Women in Campo-Ma'an National Park: Uncertainties and Adaptations in Cameroon; CHAPTER 7. Women, Decisionmaking, and Resource Management in Zimbabwe; CHAPTER 8. Becoming Men in Our Dresses! Women's Involvement in a Joint Forestry Management Project in Zimbabwe; CHAPTER 9. Learning Amongst Ourselves: Adaptive Forest Management through Social Learning in Zimbabwe; PART III. SOUTH AMERICA; CHAPTER 10. Intrahousehold Differences in Natural Resource Management in Peru and Brazil; CHAPTER 11. Improving Collaboration between Outsiders and Communities in the Amazon

CHAPTER 12. Diversity in Living Gender: Two Cases from the Brazilian Amazon; CHAPTER 13. Gender, Participation, and the Strengthening of Indigenous Forest Management in Bolivia; CHAPTER 14. Women's Place Is Not in the Forest: Gender Issues in a Timber Management Project in Bolivia; CONCLUSION; Implications of Adaptive Collaborative



Management for More Equitable Forest Management; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

While there continues to be refinement in defining and assessing sustainable management, there remains the urgent need for policies that create the conditions that support sustainability and can halt or slow destructive practices already underway. Carol Colfer and her contributors maintain that standardized solutions to forest problems from afar have failed to address both human and environmental needs. Such approaches, they argue, often neglect the knowledge that local stakeholders have accumulated over generations as forest managers and do not address issues involving the diversity and well-