Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Foreword xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. 1. Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities 1
7. PART I. Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy
8. 2. Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate? 15
9. 3. National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon 31
10. 4. Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon 41
11. 5. Forest Science and the BOLFOR Experience 64
12. 6. The Business of Certification 97
13. PART II. Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America
14. 7. Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation 119
15. 8. Making Markets Work for Forest Communities 130
16. 9. Inside the Polygon 156
17. 10. Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management 178
18. 11. Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon 200
19. 12. Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management 221
20. 13. Carbon Sequestration Potential Through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico 238
21. 14. Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest 258
22. PART.III. Working Forest Paradoxes
23. 15. Neotropical Working Forests 279
24. 16. On Defying Nature’s End 290
25. 17. Selective Logging, Forest Fragmentation, and Fire Disturbance 310
26. 18. Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means? 325
27. 19. From Staple to Fashion Food 339
28. 20. The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico 366
29. 21. Conventional Wisdom About Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda 379
30. 22. Governing the Amazon Timber Industry 388
31. Index 415