Working Forests in the Neotropics Conservation Through Sustainable Management?

Name: Working Forests in the Neotropics Conservation Through Sustainable Management?
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ISBN: 9780231129077

ISBN-10: 0231129076

ISBN-13: 9780231129077

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel Zarin, Janaki Alavalapati, Frances Putz, Marianne Schmink, Daniel J. Zarin

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Neotropical forests sustain a wealth of biodiversity, provide a wide range of ecosystem services and products, and support the livelihoods of millions of people. But is forest management a viable conservation strategy in the tropics? Supporters of sustainable forest management have promoted it as a solution to problems of both biodiversity protection and economic stagnation. Detractors insist that any conservation strategy short of fully protected status is a waste of resources and that forest management actually hastens deforestation. By focusing on a set of critical issues and case studies, this book explores the territory between these positions, highlighting the major factors that…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities




Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate?




National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities and Challenges




Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Carbon Budgets and Remote Sensing as Tools for Evaluation of Logging Effects




Forest Science and the BOLFOR Experience: Lessons Learned about Natural Forest Management in Bolivia




The Business of Forest Certification




Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation,




Making Markets Work for Forest Communities




Inside the Polygon: Emerging Community Tenure Systems and Forest Resource Extraction




Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management: The Experiences of Two Communities in Mexico and Honduras




Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon




Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management: Perspectives from Quintana Roo




Carbon Sequestration Potential through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico




Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest: Smallholder Timber Production in the Amazon Vï¿½rzea




Neotropical Working Forests -- For What and For Whom?




On Defying Nature's End




Selective Logging, Forest Fragmentation and Fire Disturbance: Implications of Interaction




Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means? Inquiries into the Role of Satiation in Affecting Deforestation




From Staple to Fashion Food: Shifting Cycles and Shifting Opportunities in the development of the Aï¿½aï¿½ Palm Fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) Economy in the Amazon Estuary




The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico




Conventional Wisdom about Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda




Governing the Amazon Timber Industry