Forest Community Connections

by Donoghue, Ellen M.; Sturtevant, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781933115672
• ISBN10: 193311567X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. Dependency on timber extraction and timber-related industries is no longer a universal characteristic of the forest community. Remoteness is also a less common feature, as technology, workforce mobility, tourism, and 'amenity migrants' increasingly connect rural to urban places. Forest Community Connections explores the responses of forest communities to a changing economy, changing federal policy, and concerns about forest health from both within and outside forest communities. Focusing primarily on the United States, the book examines the ways that social scientists work with communities-their role in facilitating social learning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to community well being. Bringing perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political science, and forestry, the authors review a range of management issues, including wildfire risk, forest restoration, labor force capacity, and the growing demand for a growing variety of forest goods and services. They examine the increasingly diverse aesthetic and cultural values that forest residents attribute to forests, the factors that contribute to strong and resilient connections between communities and forests, and consider a range of governance structures to positively influence the well being of forest communities and forests, including collaboration and community-based forestry.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction
Community and Forest Connections: Continuity and Change	p. 3
Understanding Forest Communities
Social Assessment of Forest Communities: For Whom and for What?	p. 27
Socioeconomic Monitoring and Forest Management	p. 45
Engaging Communities Through Participatory Research	p. 66
Communities in the Context of Emerging and Persistent Forest Management Issues
Evolving Interdependencies of Community and Forest Health	p. 91
Communities and Wildfire Policy	p. 109
Amenity Migration, Rural Communities, and Public Lands	p. 127
Integrating Commercial Nontimber Forest Product Harvesters into Forest Management	p. 143
Job Quality for Forest Workers	p. 162
Communities and Forest Governance
Institutional Arrangements in Community-based Forestry	p. 185
Family Forest Owners	p. 205
Creating Community Forests	p. 219
Collaborative Forest Management	p. 243
Conclusion
Taking Stock of Community and Forest Connections	p. 263
Index	p. 275
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.