Intended for practitioners, this title offers a treatment of forest landscape restoration. It provides a framework to sustainable forest management and the ecosystem approach in landscapes in cases where forest loss has caused a decline in the quality of ecosystem services.
Intended for practitioners, this title offers a treatment of forest landscape restoration. It provides a framework to sustainable forest management an...
Leading experts provide an in-depth account of how trends towards increased local governance are shifting control over natural resource management from the state to local societies, and the implications of this control for social justice and the environment.
Leading experts provide an in-depth account of how trends towards increased local governance are shifting control over natural resource management fro...
Written by the world's foremost experts, this book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation.
Written by the world's foremost experts, this book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certif...
Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2008 for the best book on international environmental problems. This pioneering study examines the impacts of neoliberal global governance on forests and provides an exhaustive overview of international forest politics: Intergovernmental Panel on Forests World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development Intergovernmental Forum on Forests United Nations Forum on Forests Forest Certification New policies to address illegal logging World Bank's forests strategy Convention on Biological Diversity - and other...
Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2008 for the best book on international environmental problems. Thi...
This book examines forest governance in African countries and concentrates in particular on decentralisation and its outcomes, most of which suggest an underperformance of governance reforms. It also examines African forest governance in a global context, comparing what is happening there with other world areas.
This book examines forest governance in African countries and concentrates in particular on decentralisation and its outcomes, most of which suggest a...
The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity depends upon our ability to improve the management of forest ecosystems that have already been substantially modified by humans. Monitoring is an essential ingredient in meeting this challenge, allowing us to measure the impact of different human activities on biodiversity and identify more responsible ways of managing the environment. Nevertheless many biodiversity monitoring programs are criticised as being little more than 'tick the box' compliance exercises that waste precious resources and erode the credibility of science in the...
The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity depends upon our ability to improve the management of forest ecosystems that have already ...
