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

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages)
• Disciplina: 634.920913
• Soggetto topico: Forest management - Tropics - Citizen participation; Sustainable forestry - Tropics - Citizen participation
• Persona (resp. second.): ColferCarol J. Pierce
• 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-
• Titolo autorizzato: The equitable forest
• ISBN: 1-936331-67-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785385403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II