Menzies Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51023-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Menzies, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Naidu Village, Yunnan Province, China
3. Jozani Forest, Ngezi Forest, and Misali Island, Zanzibar
4. The Várzea Forests of Mazagão, Amapá State, Brazil
5. Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
6. The Community Narrative of Forest Loss and Degradation
7. Invoking the Community
8. The Capacity to Manage
9. Negotiating Partnerships: Whose Voice Is Loudest?
10. Governance and Empowerment
11. Conclusions
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas K. Menzies is assistant director of the Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of Forest and Land Management in Imperial China and author of the forestry section of Science and Civilisation in China. Menzies has a degree in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University (UK) and a Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked on issues concerning communities and forest resources management with the Mountain Institute in Tibet and with the Ford Foundation in China and East Africa.