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Forestry in the Middle East and North Africa : an implementation review
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ISBN: 082135163X Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,


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The rainforests of Cameroon : experience and evidence from a decade of reform
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ISBN: 9780821378786 9780821379370 0821378783 0821379372 9786612249884 1282249886 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the value of forests. Based on historical data and extensive interviews, this report concludes that the reforms brought order over the most aggressively competing interests and started to address deeper social and environmental issues, but a significant unfinished agenda remains. On the positive side, information on the boundaries, ownership, use rights, a

Forest concession policies and revenue systems : country experience and policy changes for sustainable tropical forestry
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ISBN: 0821351702 9786610088348 1280088346 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,


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Forest conservation
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ISBN: 192150787X 9781921507878 1921507861 Year: 2012 Publisher: n. p

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Australia’s unique forests are a major natural asset in terms of biodiversity conservation, the global carbon cycle, fresh water supplies, and the maintenance of environmental and social values. Forests are also a key economic asset to Australia, providing essential timber and wood products and recreation, and employing thousands of people in the forestry and tourism industries. What policy and regulatory measures are in place to conserve Australia’s forests? This book examines how the Australian government and the community as a whole are trying to strike a balance between forest conservation and sustainable forest management through such measures as the reserve system and regional agreements. Issues addressed also include illegal logging overseas, forest products certification, and the heated debate over logging Tasmania’s old growth forests. How do we produce renewable timber for present and future generations, but also preserve our forests’ environmental, social and economic values?


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Forest and labor in Madagascar
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ISBN: 1282134574 9786613807151 0253005841 9780253005847 9780253003096 0253003091 9780253005779 0253005779 0253003091 9780253003096 9781282134577 661380715X Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980's. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises. Genese Marie Sodikoff examines how the appreciation and protection of Madagascar's biodiversity depend on manual labor. She exposes the moral dilemmas workers face as both...


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Pineros
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ISBN: 0774821159 9780774821155 0774821132 1299588050 9780774821131 0774821140 9780774821148 Year: 2012 Publisher: Vancouver, BC

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The exploitation of Latino workers in many industries, from agriculture and meat packing to textile manufacturing and janitorial services, is well known. By contrast, pineros -- itinerant workers who form the backbone of the forest management labour force on federal land -- toil in obscurity. Drawing on government papers, media accounts, and interviews with federal employees and Latino forest workers in Oregon's Rogue Valley, Brinda Sarathy investigates how the federal government came to be one of the single largest employers of Latino labour in the Pacific Northwest. She documents pinero wages, working conditions, and benefits in comparison to those of white loggers and tree planters, exposing exploitation that, she argues, is the product of an ongoing history of institutionalized racism, fragmented policy, and intra-ethnic exploitation in the West. To overcome this legacy, Sarathy offers a number of proposals to improve the visibility and working conditions of pineros and to provide them with a stronger voice in immigration and forestry policy-making. This vividly drawn account fills many gaps in our understanding of forest management in the Pacific Northwest, making clear that true environmental justice must take into account not only stewardship of forests, but also the treatment of the people who work in them.


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Instituting nature
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ISBN: 1283343673 9786613343673 0262298538 9780262298537 9781283343671 9780262016520 0262016524 9780262516440 0262516446 0262297647 9780262297646 6613343676 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.

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Zapotec Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Forests and forestry --- Forest management --- Forest conservation --- Social conditions. --- Industries --- Government relations. --- Ecology --- Ixtlán de Juárez (Mexico) --- Politics and government. --- Environmental conditions. --- Conservation of forests --- Forest preservation --- Preservation of forests --- Forest administration --- Forest plants --- Forest resource administration --- Forest resource management --- Forest stewardship --- Forest vegetation management --- Forestry management --- Stewardship, Forest --- Vegetation management, Forest --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Be'ena'a Indians --- Ben 'Zaa Indians --- Binii Gula'sa' Indians --- Didxažon̳ Indians --- Tsapotecatl Indians --- Za Indians --- Zapoteca Indians --- Zapoteco Indians --- Conservation --- Management --- Administration --- Nature conservation --- Deforestation --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Agriculture --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Ethnology --- Indians of Mexico --- Chatino Indians --- Control --- Adivasis --- Social conditions --- Government relations --- E-books --- Industries. --- Ethnoecology --- ENVIRONMENT/General --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge

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