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Project Vesta: Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forestby JS Gould; WL McCaw; NP Cheney; PF Ellis; IK Knight; AL Sullivan
CSIRO Publishing 2008; US$ 25.95Details the comprehensive research project to investigate the behaviour and spread of high-intensity bushfires in dry eucalypt forests. more...
Rural Politicsby Michael Winter
Routledge 1996; US$ 71.95Rural Politics provides a much needed examination of the evolution and content of policies affecting today's countryside, both in terms of major land use and economic and social development. more...
Forest Policy Analysisby Max Krott
Springer 2005; US$ 189.00The forest is within the focus of many old, many new and constantly changing interests of economy, society and politics. Concepts for sustained forests can achieve impact in practice only as far as they gain support of society and politics. Forest Policy Analysis advises how to mobilize support in order to make forest policy relevant. more...
Forest Policy for Private Forestryby L.D. Teeter; B. Cashore; D. Zhang
CAB International 2002; US$ 145.00There is a great concern about the sustainability of forestry and the contribution of private forestry towards this aim. It is therefore important to develop effective policies to support or shape private forestry. This book includes a selection of revised papers from a conference on the subject. more...
Tropical Forests, International Jungleby Marie-Claude Smouts
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over it in the 1950s, this text explores the complexities of what tropical forests are, and the role they play in environmentalism and almost every facet of natural and social life for those living there and beyond. more...
Managing Forest Ecosystems, 17by Felipe Bravo; Robert Jandl; Valerie Lemay
Springer 2008; US$ 239.00With climate change now charging up the political agenda, there are three issues commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, renewable energy, and the anticipated impacts of climate change. Equally important, though currently less well covered, is the issue how these effects might be mitigated. Given the significant role that forests play in the climate system - as sources, sinks, and through carbon trading - this book discusses the current scientific evidence on the relationships between climate, forest resources and forest management practices around the world. Drawing on expertise from forest scientists from several continents, the book presents both in-depth analysis of the current knowledge, and a series of case studies which assess... more...
Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communitiesby Edward L Webb; Ganesh P Shivakoti
SAGE India 2007; US$ 49.95Asian societies are entering a new era of decentralized governance of forests. The authority to make decisions on forest management has shifted to lower levels. of government and, in some cases, to the local people themselves. But can governments. simply `decentralize` authority away from the center, or are there certain core. elements necessary to achieve sustainable management and conservation of forests. in a decentralized world?. This book argues that policy solutions to resource dilemmas faced by forest-accessing. rural communities must be flexible, and should allow for local dynamics and. innovations to take place. Presenting case studies from Bhutan, India, Indonesia,. Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, this volume investigates how decentralization... more...
The Decentralization of Forest Governanceby Moira Moeliono; Eva Wollenberg; Godwin Limberg
Earthscan 2008; US$ 146.00'This book provides an excellent overview of more than a decade of transformation in a forest landscape where the interests of local people extractive industries and globally important biodiversity are in conflict. The studies assembled here teach us that plans and strategies are fine but in the real world of the forest frontier conservation must be based upon negotiation social learning and an ability to muddle through.' Jeffrey Sayer senior scientific adviser Forest Conservation Programme IUCN - International Union for of Nature The devolution of control over the world's forests from national or state and provincial level governments to local control is an ongoing global trend that deeply affects all aspects of forest management... more...
Policy That Works for Forests and Peopleby James Mayers; Stephen Bass
Earthscan 2004; US$ 66.50Since its original publication by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1999 Policy That Works for Forests and People has been recognised as the most authoritative study to date of policy processes that affect forests and people. Providing a thorough analysis of the issues options and factors that determine different outcomes and bolstered by a major annex containing tools and tactics the book offers clear and practical advice on how to formulate manage and implement policies appropriate to different contexts. These are policies that result in real improvements in the governance use and economic benefits that can flow from forests to those who depend upon them. This book is essential reading for policy-makers forestry... more...
Forests People and Powerby Oliver Springate-Baginski; Piers Blaikie
Earthscan 2007; US$ 115.00With tens of millions of hectares and hundreds of millions of lives in the balance the debate over who should control South Asias forests is of tremendous political significance. This book provides an insightful and thorough assessment of important forest management transitions currently underway. MARK POFFENBERGER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY INTERNATIONAL The contributions in this volume not only breathe life into the fi eld of writing and analysis related to forests they do so on the strength of extraordinarily insightful research. Kudos to Springate-Baginski and Blaikie for providing us with a set of thoroughly researched provocative studies that should be required reading not only for those interested... more...









