Forestry for Sustainable Rural Development

Forestry for Sustainable Rural Development
Author: Ford Foundation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Describes how woodland communities in Asia use community forestry to raise incomes and protect the environment. Looks at access and rights to forest products and land, community-based organizations, and the role of NGOs and research institutions.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Pia Katila
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108486991

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Taungya

Taungya
Author: Carl F. Jordan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

As natural forest disappear in tropical and subtropical countries, governments and forest industries are turning to plantations to meet the demand for timber. Taungya forestry has arisen to ameliorate conflicts between foresters who need land for forest plantations and shifting cultivators who need it to plant subsistence crops. Taungya is a system of forest plantations in which peasants are allowed to cultivate crops for the first few years between the seedlings of a forest plantations. Recent modifications to the taungya system include social and economic benefits to participating families. This book describes the history and current practices of taungya, as it has developed in Southeast Asia since its introduction to Burma in the 1860s, and assesses its strengths and weaknesses. It suggests social, economic and technical modifications that may help make taungya a method for improving the sustainability of forestry in developing countries (in Africa and South America as well as Asia), and will interest those concerned with tropical forestry, agroforestry systems and rural development.

Forestry for Sustainable Rural Development

Forestry for Sustainable Rural Development
Author: Ford Foundation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Describes how woodland communities in Asia use community forestry to raise incomes and protect the environment. Looks at access and rights to forest products and land, community-based organizations, and the role of NGOs and research institutions.

Participatory Forest Management in a New Age

Participatory Forest Management in a New Age
Author: Abrar Juhar Mohammed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Forest management
ISBN: 9784130770125

The UN's International Initiative of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has enabled wide comparative research on forestry in global climate change. In this book, an international team of authors who are deeply committed to this initiative provide the first comprehensive account of the mutual influence of deforestation and climate change in various areas throughout the countries of Asia. The authors also report on the policies and programs embarked on by local governments and inhabitants to maintain sustainable forest usage and their implications for fair trade, biological diversity, and environmental preservation.

REDD, Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods

REDD, Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods
Author: Oliver Springate-Baginski
Publisher: CIFOR
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Forest management
ISBN: 6028693154

Experiences from incentive-based forest management are examined for their effects on the livelihoods of local communities. In the second section, country case studies provide a snapshot of REDD developments to date and identify design features for REDD that would support benefits for forest communities.

Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Rural Development and Protected Areas

Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Rural Development and Protected Areas
Author: M ́onica de Castro-Pardo
Publisher: Mdpi AG
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783036522937

Enhancing social and economic development while preserving nature is one of the major challenges for humankind in the current century. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment showed an alarming degradation of ecosystems and exacerbated poverty for many groups of people across the world due to unprecedented changes in ecosystems caused by human activities in the 20th century. Sustainable Rural Development is key to maintaining active local communities in rural and semi-natural areas, avoiding depopulation, and preserving high-ecological-value sites, including protected areas. Establishing protected areas is the most common strategy to preserve biodiversity around the world with the advantage of promoting the supply of ecosystem services. However, depending how it affects economic opportunities and the access to natural resources, it can either attract or repel human settlements. The convergence of development and conservation requires decision-making processes capable of aligning the needs and expectations of rural communities and the goals of biodiversity conservation. The articles compiled in this Special Issue (nine research papers and two review papers) make important contributions to this challenge from different approaches, disciplines and regions in the world.

Forest Strategy

Forest Strategy
Author: Michael Gane
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2007-06-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402059655

This ground-breaking book combines detailed analysis of the forest sector with modern strategic management principles to develop a vision for sustainable forest management which is both practical and theoretically robust. The book adopts a holistic approach to propose a new theoretical framework for this once traditional sector; one which reconciles current thinking in strategic management with natural resource management.

At Loggerheads?

At Loggerheads?
Author: Piet Buys
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2007
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0821367366

The report offers a simple framework for policy analysis by identifying three forest types: frontiers and disputed lands; lands beyond the agricultural frontier; and, mosaic lands where forests and agriculture coexist. It collates geographic and economic information for each type that will help formulate poverty-reducing forest policy.

Sustainable Rural Development

Sustainable Rural Development
Author: A. Shepherd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1998-01-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349262110

This book examines the paradigm shift in rural development from an industrial to an holistic approach to technology development, from a technocratic to a participatory approach to management, and from resource control by big organisations to local resource management. It provides a broad-ranging assessment of agriculture and local-level institutional development and sets out a range of agendas for development practice, management and policy into the twenty-first century.