Community Forestry in the United States

by Baker, Mark; Kusel, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781559639835
• ISBN10: 1559639830
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

Across the United States, people are developing new relationships with the forest ecosystems on which they depend, with a common goal of improving the health of the land and the well-being of their communities. Practitioners and supporters of what has come to be called community forestry are challenging current approaches to forest management as they seek to end the historical disfranchisement of communities and workers from forest management and the all-too-pervasive trends of long-term disinvestment in ecosystems and human communities that have undermined the health of both.Community Forestry in the United Statesis an analytically rigorous and historically informed assessment of this new movement. It examines the current state of community forestry through a grounded assessment of where it stands now and where it might go in the future. The book not only clarifies the state of the movement, but also suggests a trajectory and process for its continued development.

Author Biography

Mark Baker is research associate and Jonathan Kusel is founder and director of Forest Community Research, a nonprofit organization based in the Sierra Nevada of California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
The Landscape of Community Forestry	1	(12)
Historical Antecedents	13	(22)
Setting the Stage for Community Forestry	35	(20)
An Emerging Social Movement	55	(24)
Environment, Economy, and Equity	79	(14)
Democratic Renewal and Revival	93	(28)
The Politics of Community Forestry	121	(26)
Toward a Civic Science for Community Forestry	147	(18)
Jeffrey G. Borchers
Jonathan Kusel
Community-Scale Investment, Equity, and Social Justice	165	(22)
Leah Wills
Mark Baker
Signposts for the Twenty-First Century	187	(12)
Appendix: Study Interviewees and Workshop Participants	199	(4)
Notes	203	(16)
References	219	(12)
About the Authors	231	(2)
Index	233