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Working Forests in the Neotropics

Conservation Through Sustainable Management?
  • Edited by: Daniel Zarin , Janaki Alavalapati , Frances Putz and Marianne Schmink
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2004
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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.

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Ken Smith:
This work should be required reading for foresters, biologists, and social scientists.

An excellent supplementary text... Recommended.


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PART I. Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy

Francis E. Putz
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Opportunities and Challenges
Adalberto Veríssimo and Paulo Barreto
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Carbon Budgets and Remote Sensing as Tools for Evaluating Logging Effects
Michael Keller, Gregory P. Asner, Natalino Silva and Michael Palace
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Lessons Learned About Natural Forest Management in Bolivia
Francis E. Putz, Michelle A. Pinard, Todd S. Fredericksen and Marielos Peña-Claros
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Joshua C. Dickinson, John M. Forgach and Thomas E. Wilson
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PART II. Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America

Marianne Schmink
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Sara J. Scherr, Andy White and David Kaimowitz
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Emerging Community Tenure Systems and Forest Resource Extraction
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The Experiences of Two Communities in Mexico and Honduras
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David G. McGrath, Charles M. Peters and Antônio José Mota Bentes
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Perspectives from Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Bernardus H. J. de Jong
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Smallholder Timber Production on the Amazon Várzea
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PART.III. Working Forest Paradoxes

For What and for Whom?
Janaki R. R. Alavalapati and Daniel J. Zarin
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Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Aaron Bruner, Russell A. Mittermeier, Keith Alger, Claude Gascon and Richard E. Rice
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Implications of Interaction and Synergy
Mark A. Cochrane, David L. Skole, Eraldo A. T. Matricardi, Christopher Barber and Walter Chomentowski
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The Role of Satiation in Deforestation
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Shifting Cycles and Shifting Opportunities in the Development of the Açaí Palm Fruit Economy in the Amazon Estuary
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