Keywords:
Forest management -- Political aspects.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Providing an incisive examination of community forestry, this book highlights both the possibilities and challenges associated with its implementation. It studies complex issues in local forest governance, community sustainability and grassroots environmentalism, with compelling case studies and accounts from those directly involved with community forestry efforts in a pan-national context.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (194 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781139627870
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1099786
DDC:
333.75
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Community Forestry: Local Values, Conflict and Forest Governance -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Defining concepts and spaces for the re-emergence of community forestry -- INTRODUCTION -- COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS -- COMMUNITY FORESTRY, COMMUNITY FORESTS AND COMMUNITY-BASED FORESTRY -- COMMUNITY(IES) -- CAVEATS -- THE ROAD AHEAD -- REFERENCES -- 2 Putting community forestry into place: implementation and conflict -- THE IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGE -- THE CHARACTER OF CONFLICT -- CONFLICT AS A DYNAMIC ELEMENT IN COMMUNITY FOREST GOVERNANCE -- Communicative -- Personal dynamics (values, beliefs and interests) -- REFERENCES -- 3 Keeping New England's forests common -- COMMUNAL FORESTS -- THE "TOWN FOREST" MOVEMENT -- CONSERVING OPEN SPACE THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE-CIVIC COLLABORATION -- The Freedom Town Forest, New Hampshire -- (Bruce) Lacroix Farm and Family Forest, Moretown, Vermont -- SUMMARY -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 Experiments and false starts: Ontario's community forestry experience -- APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN ONTARIO -- The Agreement Forest Program, 1922-2001 -- The Algonquin Forest Authority/Agence de foresterie du parc Algonquin, 1974 to present -- Wendaban Stewardship Authority, 1990-1995 -- Ontario Community Forest Pilot Program, 1991-1994 -- Westwind Stewardship Incorporated, 1996 to present -- SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES WITH COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN ONTARIO -- Lessons from experience -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 A "watershed" case for community forestry in British Columbia's interior: the Creston Valley Forest Corporation -- COMMUNITY CONTEXT, TOWN OF CRESTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- INTEGRATING COMMUNITY WATERSHED AND FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE EMERGENCE OF THE CRESTON VALLEY FOREST CORPORATION -- IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES -- Weak support -- Local competition for tenure.
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Contentious area and degraded site conditions -- Weak provincial support and bureaucracy -- Unrealistic goals and objectives -- Inadequate financing and skills -- Unsupportive stumpage appraisal system -- Poor markets and no economy of scale -- Biophysical context: difficult operating area and site conditions -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 6 Contested forests and transition in two Gulf Island communities -- CASE 1: DENMAN ISLAND -- EMERGENCE OF THE DENMAN COMMUNITY FOREST COOPERATIVE -- CASE 2: KLAHOOSE FIRST NATION AND CORTES ECOFORESTRY SOCIETY PARTNERSHIP, CORTES ISLAND -- ORIGINS OF THE KLAHOOSE FIRST NATION/CORTES ECOFORESTY SOCIETY PARTNERSHIP -- TWO ISLANDS, TWO OUTCOMES -- Community mobilization -- Land ownership and stakeholders -- Local decision-making structures and processes -- MOTIVATIONS FOR LOCAL CONTROL: NATURAL RESOURCE AND AMENITY DEVELOPMENT PRESSURE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 The southwestern United States: community forestry as governance -- A BRIEF HISTORY -- A STORY FROM THE US SOUTHWEST -- ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LIMITS -- REFERENCES -- 8 Community access and the culture of stewardship in Finland and Sweden -- OWNERSHIP -- THE EVOLUTION OF SWEDISH POLICY: FROM DICTATES TO PERSUASIVE PLANNING -- FINNISH POLICY AND PLANNING: THE HIERARCHICAL DISINTEGRATION OF PARTICIPATION -- BUILDING A CULTURE OF STEWARDSHIP -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Community forestry: a way forward -- ADDRESSING LOCAL VALUES AND CONFLICT THROUGH COMMUNITY FORESTRY -- ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN FOREST GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT -- REFERENCES -- Index.
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