Ecosystems - forests

Fourth in the series, this profile explores the diverse and changing nature of Community Involvement in Forest Management (CIFM) in Western Europe. It provides some comparative European-level data on important social institutions which shape patterns of community involvement in forestry, and it briefly examines different national contexts.

Esta obra incluye 19 capítulos (de 32 autores de varios países) divididos en dos secciones: 1. Aspectos generales y 2. El Caribe y los países del continente americano. La obra trata los bosques nublados de las Antillas, México, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia y Argentina. Cada capítulo trata temas diversos, como ambiente físico, biodiversidad, biogeografía, estructura, productividad, dinámica forestal, ecología, socioeconomía, uso de la tierra, conservación y desarrollo sostenible.

Produced by IUCN's Eastern Africa Programme, this publication aims to investigate the extent to which communities have been provided with economic incentives to become involved in sustainable forest management in Eastern and Southern Africa, and how far perverse incentives and disincentives encouraging forest degradation and loss have been overcome. This study concludes that there is an urgent need to provide economic incentives, and it highlights a number of policy recommendations.