Forest Community Connections: Implications for Research, Management, and Governance

ISBN-13: 9781933115672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 292 str.

Ellen M. Donoghue; Victoria Sturtevant

Opis

The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. This book examines the responses of forest communities to changing forest values, changing federal policy, timber industry restructuring, and concerns about forest health. 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.As dependency on timber extraction is no longer a universal characteristic of forest communities, residents are increasingly diverse in the cultural, economic, and aesthetic values that they attribute to forests. Remoteness also no longer applies, as technology and workforce mobility increasingly connect rural to urban places.