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]).
The Politics of Decentralization: Forests, Power and People
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Doris Capistrano
August 26, 2016
Decentralization is sweeping the world and having dramatic and far-reaching impacts on resource management and livelihoods, particularly in forestry. This book is the most up-to-date examination of the themes, experiences and lessons learned from decentralization worldwide. Drawing on research and ...
Gender and Forests: Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging Issues
1st Edition
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By Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlène Elias
April 11, 2016
This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to...
Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests
1st Edition
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By Jurgen Bauhus, Peter van der Meer, Markku Kanninen
December 18, 2015
Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and other non-timber goods and services. Often they are monocultures that do ...
Forecasting Forest Futures: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to the Assessment of Sustainability of Forest Ecosystems and their Values
1st Edition
By Hamish Kimmins, Juan A. Blanco
August 07, 2015
Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced ...
Forests People and Power: The Political Ecology of Reform in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Oliver Springate-Baginski, Piers Blaikie
August 12, 2014
�With tens of millions of hectares and hundreds of millions of lives in the balance, the debate over who should control South Asia�s forests is of tremendous political significance. This book provides an insightful and thorough assessment of important forest management transitions currently ...
Lessons from Forest Decentralization: Money, Justice and the Quest for Good Governance in Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
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By Carol Colfer Pierce J, Ganga Dahal Ram, Doris Capistrano
July 17, 2014
The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of Asia-Pacific countries described in this book presents rich and varied experience with ...
Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems: Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change
1st Edition
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By Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates
April 25, 2014
This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history. ...
Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes
1st Edition
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By Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Jean-Laurent Pfund
December 11, 2013
This book provides a novel approach to governance relating to biodiversity and human well-being in complex tropical landscapes, including forests and protected areas. It focuses attention at the interface between communities and the landscape level, building on interdisciplinary research conducted ...
Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa: Management and Restoration
1st Edition
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By Frans Bongers, Timm Tennigkeit
December 11, 2013
Forest degradation as a result of logging, shifting cultivation, agriculture and urban development is a major issue throughout the tropics. It leads to loss in soil fertility, water resources and biodiversity, as well as contributes to climate change. Efforts are therefore required to try to ...
The Decentralization of Forest Governance: Politics, Economics and the Fight for Control of Forests in Indonesian Borneo
1st Edition
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By Moira Moeliono, Eva Wollenberg, Godwin Limberg
December 11, 2013
The devolution of control over the world's forests from national or state and provincial level governments to local control is an ongoing global trend that deeply affects all aspects of forest management, conservation of biodiversity, control over resources, wealth distribution and livelihoods. ...
The Dry Forests and Woodlands of Africa: Managing for Products and Services
1st Edition
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By Emmanuel N. Chidumayo, Davison J. Gumbo
December 11, 2013
The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance, compared to tropical rainforests, despite them being home to more than half of the ...
Monitoring Forest Biodiversity: Improving Conservation through Ecologically-Responsible Management
1st Edition
By Toby Gardner
June 01, 2012
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 ...