Book Description

• empowerment of indigenous people
• social forestry and forest values
• community forest management, collaborative restructuring, and partnerships
• socioeconomic analysis of sustainable forestry
• biodiversity values and measures
  
  As Editor O. Thomas Bouman explains in the book¡¯s Preface, “The presenters accomplish both a reality check and a vision-building exercise toward forest sustainability. Clearly, there are distinct factors that cause and modify the loss of primary forests across regions. However, the [book] has brought home that the involvement and empowerment of communities and non-governmental groups are increasingly seen as the means of changing the way forests are managed. Nevertheless, the views expressed and the factual evidence presented . . . have left little doubt that the future of natural forests is bleak. This concern has been further aggravated because, even where the political commitment has been made, operational and scientific support for achieving forest sustainability is generally in its infancy.”
  
  
  
  

• Quo Vadimus?
• Sustainability: The Panacea for Our Forestry Ills?
• Cultural Values versus Science
• Sustainable Development of Forests as a Way to Preserve the Natural Basis of Forestry
• Challenges to Managing Forests in Africa
• Community Forest Management in Southern Asia: A Survival Issue
• Predivinsk Lespromkhoz: Collaborative Restructuring of a Forest Product Based Community in Siberia
• Ecologically Sustainable Land Use Planning in the Russian Lake Baikal Region
• Forest Policy Evolution in Poland
• Integrating a Research Station into Community Development and Area Protection in Nicaragua
• First Nations and Forest Management in the U. S. Pacific Northwest
• Sustainable Forests: It¡¯s About Time (Montana)
• Partnership Building for Sustainable Development: A First Nations Perspective from Ontario
• Parnership Building for Sustainable Development: An Industry Perspective from Saskatchewan
• Previous Values: Integrating Diverse Forest Values into Forest Management Policy and Action (Ontario)
• Socio-Economic Sustainability in Forest Dependent Communities in Ontario
• An Ecological¨CEconomic Analysis of the Role of Canadian Forests in Mitigating Global Climate Change
• Value of Wilderness Protection in Saskatchewan: A Case Study of Existence Values
• Sustaining Tropical Forest Biodiversity
• Biodiversity Values and Measures Applied to Forest Management
• Characterizing and Comparing Landscape Diversity Using GIS and a Contagion Index
• Nest Predation Dynamics Along a Forest Fragmentation Gradient
• Using Micropropagation to Conserve Threatened Rare Species in Sustainable Forests
• Microbial Inoculants for Sustainable Forests
• Panel Discussion
• Reference Notes Included