Working Forests In The Neotropics

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

• ISBN13: 9780231129077
• ISBN10: 0231129076
• Format: Paperback
• 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
Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities	1	(14)
Daniel J. Zarin
PART 1 Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy
Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate?	15	(16)
Francis E. Putz
National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities and Challenges	31	(10)
Adalberto Verissimo
Paulo Barreto
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
Michael Palace
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
Marielos Pena-Claros
The Business of Certification	97	(22)
Joshua C. Dickinson
John M. Forgach
Thomas E. Wilson
PART 2 Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America
Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation	119	(11)
Mariane Schmink
Making Markets Work for Forest Communities	130	(26)
Sara J. Scherr
Andy White
David Kaimowitz
Inside the Polygon: Emerging Community Tenure Systems and Forest Resource Extraction	156	(22)
Tom Ankersen
Grenville Barnes
Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management: The Experiences of Two Communities in Mexico and Honduras	178	(22)
Catherine Tucker
Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon	200	(21)
David McGrath
Charles M. Peters
Antonio Jose Mota Bentes
Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management: Perspectives from Quintana Roo, Mexico	221	(17)
David Barton Bray
Carbon Sequestration Potential Through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico	238	(20)
Bernardus H.J. de Jong
Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest: Smallholder Timber Production on the Amazon Varzea	258	(21)
Robin Sears
Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
PART 3 Working Forest Paradoxes
Neotropical Working Forests: For What and for Whom?	279	(11)
Janaki R.R. Alavalapati
Daniel J. Zarin
On Defying Nature's End	290	(20)
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
Aaron Bruner
Russell A. Mittermeier
Keith Alger
Claude Gascon
Richard E. Rice
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
Walter Chomentowski
Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means? The Role of Satiation in Deforestation	325	(14)
Arild Angelsen
Martin K. Luckert
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
The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico	366	(13)
Ariel E. Lugo
PART 4 Envisioning a Future for Sustainable Tropical Forest Management
Conventional Wisdom About Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda	379	(9)
David Kaimowitz
Governing the Amazon Timber Industry	388	(27)
Daniel Nepstad
Ane Alencar
Ana Cristina Barros
Eirivelthon Lima
Elsa Mendoza
Claudia Azevedo Ramos
Paul Lefebvre
Index	415