| Description |
x, 315 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. The Dismal Record -- 1. Forest Use and Misuse -- 2. Why Tropical Forests Decline -- Pt. II. Stirrings in the Field -- 3. The Road to Bendum -- 4. Village Forests in India -- 5. Conservation in Indonesia -- 6. Africa's Cornucopia and Scorpion -- 7. Learning from Latin America -- Pt. III. The Way Ahead -- 8. Shifting the Balance -- 9. Helping from Afar -- 10. Future Imperatives |
| Summary |
Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community- based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) |
| Subject |
Community forests.
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Community forests -- Tropics -- Management.
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Forest management -- Tropics -- Citizen participation.
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Forest conservation -- Tropics -- Citizen participation.
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| Author |
D'Andrea, Claudia, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2001027613 |
| ISBN |
0520217993 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520230892 paperback alkaline paper |
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