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.
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword, by Hon. Jorge Viana
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities, by Daniel J. Zarin
- Part I. Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy
- 2. Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate?, by Francis E. Putz
- 3. National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities and Challenges, by Adalberto Veríssimo and Paulo Barreto
- 4. Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Carbon Budgets and Remote Sensing as Tools for Evaluation of Logging Effects, by Michael Keller, Gregory P. Asner, Natalino Silva and Michael Palace
- 5. Forest Science and the BOLFOR Experience: Lessons Learned about Natural Forest Management in Bolivia, by Francis E. Putz, Michelle A. Pinard, Todd .S. Fredericksen, and Marielos Peña-Claros
- 6. The Business of Forest Certification, by Joshua C. Dickinson, John M. Forgach, and Thomas E. Wilson
- Part II. Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America
- 7. Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation, by Mariane Schmink
- 8. Making Markets Work for Forest Communities, by Sara J. Scherr, Andy White, and David Kaimowitz
- 9. Inside the Polygon: Emerging Community Tenure Systems and Forest Resource Extraction, by Thomas Ankersen and Grenville Barnes
- 10. Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management: The Experiences of Two Communities in Mexico and Honduras, by Catherine Tucker
- 11. Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon, by David McGrath, Charles Peters, and Antônio José Mota Bentes
- Color Plates
- 12. Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management: Perspectives from Quintana Roo, by David Bray
- 13. Carbon Sequestration Potential through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico, by Bernardus de Jong
- 14. Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest: Smallholder Timber Production in the Amazon Várzea, by Robin Sears and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
- Part III. Working Forest Paradoxes
- 15. Neotropical Working Forests: For What and For Whom?, by Janaki Alavalapati and Daniel J. Zarin
- 16. On Defying Nature’s End, by Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, Aaron Bruner, Russell A. Mittermeier, Keith Alger, Clau
- 17. Selective Logging, Forest Fragmentation and Fire Disturbance: Implications of Interaction, by Mark A. Cochrane, David L. Skole, Eraldo A. T. Matricardi, Christopher Barber, and Walter Chomentowski
- 18. Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means? Inquiries into the Role of Satiation in Affecting Deforestation, by Arild Angelsen and Martin K. Luckert
- 19. From Staple to Fashion Food: Shifting Cycles and Shifting Opportunities in the development of the Açaí Palm Fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) Economy in the Amazon Estuary, by Eduardo S. Brondizio
- 20. The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico, by Ariel E. Lugo
- Part IV. Envisioning a Future for Sustainable Tropical Forest Management
- 21. Conventional Wisdom about Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda, by David Kaimowitz
- 22. Governing the Amazon Timber Industry, by Daniel Nepstad, Ane Alencar, Ana Cristina Barros, Eirivelthon Lima, Elsa Mendoza
- Index
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