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Working Forests in the Neotropics
Conservation Through Sustainable Management?
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Daniel Zarin
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English
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2004
About this book
By focusing on a set of critical issues and case studies, this book explores of the polarized debate over production-oriented forestry and the chances of achieving forest conservation through sustainable management.
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 contribute to or detract from the chances of achieving forest conservation through sustainable management.
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Daniel J. Zarin is an Associate Professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida, where he is Director of the Working Forests in the Tropics Program.
Janaki R. R. Alavalapati is an Associate Professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida.
Francis E. Putz is a Professor of Botany at the University of Florida and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research.Â
Marianne Schmink is Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida, where she is Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development program.
Janaki R. R. Alavalapati is an Associate Professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida.
Francis E. Putz is a Professor of Botany at the University of Florida and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research.Â
Marianne Schmink is Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida, where she is Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development program.
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Ken Smith:
This work should be required reading for foresters, biologists, and social scientists.
This work should be required reading for foresters, biologists, and social scientists.
An excellent supplementary text... Recommended.
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Contents
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Contributors
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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1. Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities
1 - PART I. Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy
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2. Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate?
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3. National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon
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4. Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon
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5. Forest Science and the BOLFOR Experience
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6. The Business of Certification
97 - PART II. Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America
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7. Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation
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8. Making Markets Work for Forest Communities
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9. Inside the Polygon
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10. Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management
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11. Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon
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12. Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management
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13. Carbon Sequestration Potential Through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico
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14. Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest
258 - PART.III. Working Forest Paradoxes
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15. Neotropical Working Forests
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16. On Defying Nature’s End
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17. Selective Logging, Forest Fragmentation, and Fire Disturbance
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18. Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means?
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19. From Staple to Fashion Food
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20. The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico
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21. Conventional Wisdom About Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda
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22. Governing the Amazon Timber Industry
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Index
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416
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