Forest management

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history. Individual chapters stress different elements of these concepts based on the specific setting and expertise of the authors.

This publication presents a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda in forestry, connecting it with existing work on tenure reform, governance rights and human rights. The attention to rights in forestry differs from 'rights-based approaches' in international development and other natural resource fields in critical ways. Above all, redistribution is a central demand of activists in forestry, but not in other fields.

This book provides essential analysis to help policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders understand risks and develop effective responses at a critical moment when the main architecture for climate governance is being developed.

The objective of this manual is to provide the basic framework and material to trainers in order for them to train field level staff to become facilitators in the Forest Management Learning Group process. The overall training objective is to build their confidence and skills in order to be able to facilitate the Forest Management Learning Group process in their own area.

In recent decades "participatory" approaches to forest management have been introduced around the world. This book assesses their implementation in the highly politicized environments of India and Nepal. The authors critically examine the policy, implementation processes and casual factors affecting livelihood impacts. Considering narratives and field practice, with data from over 60 study villages and over 1000 household interviews, the book demonstrates why particular field outcomes have occurred and why policy reform often proves so difficult.

Ils parcourent les forêts les plus éloignées, mesurent les arbres et analysent même la forêt à vol d'oiseau -- ce sont les équipes de l'Inventaire Forestier National (IFN). L'IFN informe sur l'état, le développement et les fonctions de la forêt Suisse. Les données de l'IFN servent à la recherche, à la pratique, à l'économie et à la politique pour une gestion durable de la forêt. = The teams from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) venture through even the most remote forests, measuring trees and analying the forest even from a bird's eye view.