Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades.
Despite endorsements of the concept of sustainable development and the linking of sustainable development with the Millennium Development Goals, progress towards the eradication of poverty has been disappointing.
Author(s):
Barrow, Edmund G. C.
Farvar, M. Taghi
Fisher, R. J.
Friend, Richard
Ingles, A. W.
Jackson, W. J.
Jeanrenaud, Sally
Laurie, Michelle
Maginnis, Stewart
Mehrotra, Rati
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
Manual de técnicas participativas para actividades forestales comunitarias, que pueden aplicarse fácilmente a otras formas de manejo participativo de recursos naturales.
Mitigating the impact of climate change presents governments and communities throughout the world with one of the main environmental challenges of our times.
The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy.
Mitigating the impact of climate change presents governments and communities throughout the world with one of the main environmental challenges of our times.
Mitigating the impact of climate change presents governments and communities throughout the world with one of the main environmental challenges of our times.
Fires are a natural phenomenon. However, over 90% of all wildland fires today are due to human action causing significant forest loss between 6-14 million hectares of forest per annum.
The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy.
A collection of papers, many translated from Russian, originally presented at a seminar held in 1995 to increase international awareness about Kyrgyzstan's unique walnut-fruit forests.
Provides a wealth of practical tools and methods for our field workers who work with local communities in developing collaborative management of forests.
Based on a workshop held to analyse the viability of extraction of NTFPs in Africa and improve knowledge and understanding of the role and potential of NTFPs in forest conservation. Also includes country overview of NTFPs use from fifteen countries.
This book offers an innovative and refreshing look at forest conservation in Palawan Island, the Philippines, where the indigenous Batak peoples make a living from shifting cultivation and collection of non-timber forest products.
First edited in English, this is the first fully comprehensive study of the current state of the tropical moist forests of Africa. African moist forests, containing well over half the continent's biological diversity, are disappearing at a rate of about 2 per year, the fastest in the world.
Author(s):
Collins, N. Mark
Doumenge, Charles
Harcourt, Caroline S.
Larivière, Jean
Lhermillier, Nelly
Sayer, Jeffrey
Organization(s):
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
Comité national des Membres de l’UICN de France
Fondation Nicolas Hulot pour la nature et l'homme, FR
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodolgies for implementation
Based on information derived from literature, statistics, interviews and a field survey in Bolivia, this report explores the value of non-timber forest products not only in economic terms but also as an important element in the lives of people who live in or near the forest.
Author(s):
Broekhoven, Guido
Organization(s):
IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
University of Utrecht, Department of Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, NL
Prince Bernhard Centre for International Nature Conservation
The threats to the forests of tropical America have been the centre of international environmental concern for some time, yet the material in this atlas highlights the continuing extent of scientific uncertainty over the critical issues that will determine the future use and conservation of these
Organization(s):
British Petroleum (BP)
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably.
At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably.
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodolgies for implementation
Synthesis of the various components of international law that have an impact on forests and provides a policy framework for conservation and sustainable use, against which any future global forest regime shoud be measured.
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodologies for implementation.
