ABSTRACT
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry.
Containing contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Handbook begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry, conservation and ecosystem management, relationships with industrial forestry, trade and supply systems, land tenure and land grabbing, and climate change are addressed. The Handbook also focuses on governance, looking at the range of approaches employed, including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches, and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The Handbook reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly, the Handbook not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry, but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions.
The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry is essential reading for academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in forestry, natural resource management, conservation, and sustainable development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |34 pages
Spaces for community forestry in State- and timber-dominated landscapes
chapter 3|18 pages
Community forestry in extractive reserves
part |92 pages
Multi-level governance and new governance approaches – Global
chapter 4|16 pages
Non-timber forest product value chain development
chapter 5|23 pages
Pathways to community timber production
chapter 7|17 pages
Commercial timber plantations as a means to land and economic restitution in South Africa
part |80 pages
Inter-agency collaborations in Community Forestry – USA
chapter 9|5 pages
Old World and New World collision
chapter 11|14 pages
Community-based forestry in the western United States
chapter 13|19 pages
Community management of Native American, municipal, and private managed forests in northern California, USA
part |52 pages
Voluntary forest certification schemes in community forestry
chapter 15|19 pages
An assessment of FSC certification solutions for smallholders and community-managed forests
chapter 16|15 pages
Environmental and socio-economic impacts of community forestry and individual small-scale logging in Cameroon
part |46 pages
Indigenous forestry/all forest values including Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
chapter 17|15 pages
The Mistik story
chapter 18|14 pages
Listening watchfully
chapter 19|15 pages
‘We all have this mother'
part |80 pages
Community forestry associations, gender, landscapes
chapter 20|19 pages
Community forestry in British Columbia, Canada
chapter 21|17 pages
Achieving political rights, enhancing forest livelihoods
chapter 22|17 pages
‘Community' agroforestry and landscape restoration
chapter 23|25 pages
‘If there is jangal (forest), there is everything'
part |94 pages
Politics and power in community forestry
chapter 24|18 pages
Disempowering democracy
chapter 25|17 pages
Community Forestry in Myanmar
chapter 27|15 pages
Decoupling agendas
chapter 28|13 pages
Liberia's Private Use Permits
part |56 pages
New directions in community forestry