The Earthscan Forest Library
About the Book Series
This series brings together a wide collection of volumes addressing diverse aspects of forests and forestry and draws on a range of disciplinary perspectives. Titles cover the full range of forest science and include the biology, ecology, biodiversity, restoration, management (including silviculture and timber production), geography and environment (including climate change), socio-economics, anthropology, policy, law and governance. The series aims to demonstrate the important role of forests in nature, peoples’ livelihoods and in contributing to broader sustainable development goals. It is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, professionals, policy-makers and concerned members of civil society. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Restoring Forests and Improving Livelihoods in Nepal: Four Decades of Community Forestry
1st Edition
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By Hemant Ojha, Krishna K. Shrestha, Naya S. Paudel, Rahul Karki, Dil Khatri, Sony Baral, Mani Ram Banjade, Ian Nuberg
September 30, 2025
This book presents a comprehensive review of new research and practice-based insights from Nepal’s four decades of community forestry development, delving into when and how community-based management can lead to forest landscape restoration and equitable livelihoods. With over four decades of ...
Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management: From Forest Communities to Global Actors
1st Edition
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By Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Ravi Prabhu
October 07, 2024
Focused on forest management and governance, this book examines two decades of experience with Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM), assessing both its uses and improvements needed to address global environmental issues. The volume argues that the activation and the empowerment of local peoples ...
Global Forest Carbon: Policy, Economics and Finance
1st Edition
By Runsheng Yin
March 15, 2024
This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon. The global forest sector is expected to play a major role in achieving the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore practical and promising solutions ...
Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation
1st Edition
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By Chris Coggins, Bixia Chen
January 29, 2024
Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves...
The Cultural Value of Trees: Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation
1st Edition
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By Jeffrey Wall
January 29, 2024
This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. ...
Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society
1st Edition
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By Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Ravi Prabhu, Anne M. Larson
September 25, 2023
This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities. Many forest management proposals are based on top-down strategies, such as the Million ...
Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure
1st Edition
By Bernice Maxton-Lee
December 13, 2021
Despite carefully constructed conservation interventions, deforestation in Indonesia is not being stopped. This book identifies why large-scale international forest conservation has failed to reduce deforestation in Indonesia and considers why key stakeholders have not responded as expected to ...
A New Era for Collaborative Forest Management: Policy and Practice insights from the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program
1st Edition
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By William H. Butler, Courtney A. Schultz
September 30, 2020
This book assesses the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and identifies lessons learned for governance and policy through this new and innovative approach to collaborative forest management.Unlike anything else in US public land management, the CFLRP is a nationwide program...
Forest Ecosystem Management and Timber Production: Divergence and Resource Use Resilience
1st Edition
By Russell Warman
September 30, 2020
Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine the socio-political, biophysical and discursive dimensions of this divergence of wood production from ...
Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity
1st Edition
By Carol J. Pierce Colfer
September 21, 2020
Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different forests, and how these relate to forest management. While forestry is widely considered a masculine domain, a significant portion of the ...
Forest Landscape Restoration: Integrated Approaches to Support Effective Implementation
1st Edition
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By Stephanie Mansourian, John Parrotta
June 30, 2020
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes. The aim of this book is to explore options to better integrate the diverse dimensions - spatial, disciplinary, sectoral, and scientific ...
Community Forestry in Nepal: Adapting to a Changing World
1st Edition
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By Richard Thwaites, Robert Fisher, Mohan Poudel
July 29, 2019
Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is widespread in Nepal, with a very high proportion of the rural population involved, and is widely recognized as one of the most successful examples of ...