Working Forests In The Neotropics

by Zarin, Daniel; Alavalapati, Janaki R. R.; Putz, Frances E.; Schmink, Marianne

• ISBN13: 9780231129060
• ISBN10: 0231129068
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-31
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

-- Thomas Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Hon. Jorge Viana
Acknowledgments	xvii
1. Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities	1	(14)
Daniel J. Zarin
PART 1 Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy
2. Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate?	15	(16)
Francis E. Putz
3. National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities and Challenges	31	(10)
Adalberto Verissimo and Paulo Barreto
4. Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Carbon Budgets and Remote Sensing as Tools for Evaluating Logging Effects	41	(23)
Michael Keller, Gregory P. Asner, Natalino Silva, and Michael Palace
5. Forest Science and the BOLFOR Experience: Lessons Learned About Natural Forest Management in Bolivia	64	(33)
Francis E. Putz, Michelle A. Pinard, Todd S. Fredericksen, and Marielos Peña-Claros
6. The Business of Certification	97	(22)
Joshua C. Dickinson, John M. Forgach, and Thomas E. Wilson
PART 2 Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America
7. Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation	119	(11)
Mariane Schmink
8. Making Markets Work for Forest Communities	130	(26)
Sara J. Scherr, Andy White, and David Kaimowitz
9. Inside the Polygon: Emerging Community Tenure Systems and Forest Resource Extraction	156	(22)
Tom Ankersen and Grenville Barnes
10. Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management: The Experiences of Two Communities in Mexico and Honduras	178	(22)
Catherine Tucker
11. Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon	200	(21)
David McGrath, Charles M. Peters, and Antônio José Mota Bentes
12. Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management: Perspectives from Quintana Roo, Mexico	221	(17)
David Barton Bray
13. Carbon Sequestration Potential Through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico	238	(20)
Bernardus H.J. de Jong
14. Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest: Smallholder Timber Production on the Amazon Varzea	258	(21)
Robin Sears and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
PART 3 Working Forest Paradoxes
15. Neotropical Working Forests: For What and for Whom?	279	(11)
Janaki R.R. Alavalapati and Daniel J. Zarin
16. On Defying Nature's End	290	(20)
Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, Aaron Bruner, Russell A. Mittermeier, Keith Alger, Claude Gascon, and Richard E. Rice
17. Selective Logging, Forest Fragmentation, and Fire Disturbance: Implications of Interaction and Synergy	310	(15)
Mark A. Cochrane, David L. Skole, Eraldo A.T. Matricardi, Christopher Barber, and Walter Chomentowski
18. Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means? The Role of Satiation in Deforestation	325	(14)
Arild Angelsen and Martin K. Luckert
19. From Staple to Fashion Food: Shifting Cycles and Shifting Opportunities in the Development of the Acai Palm Fruit Economy in the Amazon Estuary	339	(27)
Eduardo S. Brondizio
20. The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico	366	(13)
Ariel E. Lugo
PART 4 Envisioning a Future for Sustainable Tropical Forest Management
21. Conventional Wisdom About Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda	379	(9)
David Kaimowitz
22. Governing the Amazon Timber Industry	388	(27)
Daniel Nepstad, Ane Alencar, Ana Cristina Barros, Eirivelthon Lima, Elsa Mendoza, Claudia Azevedo Ramos, and Paul Lefebvre
Index	415