Sustainable Forest Management - Case Studies

The book collects original case studies from 12 different countries in four continents (Africa, America, Asia and Europe). These studies represent a wide variation of experiences from developing and developed countries, and should clarify the current status of SFM worldwide and the problems associated with its implementation.

The concept of forest sustainability dates from centuries ago, although the understanding of sustainable forest management (SFM) as an instrument that harmonizes ecological and socio-economic concerns is relatively new. The change in perspective occurred at the beginning of the 1990s in response to an increased awareness of the deterioration of the environment, in particular of the alarming loss of forest resources.

Contents
Part 1 Africa

• 1 Methodology for Forest Ecosystem Mediating Indicator - Case Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
• 2 Obstacles to a Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Forest Management Under REDD in Central Africa: A Two-Country Analysis
• 3 Collaborative Forest Management in Uganda: Benefits, Implementation Challenges and Future Directions

Part 2 America

• 4 Sustainable Forest Management of Native Vegetation Remnants in Brazil
• 5 Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil: Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning
• 6 Sustainable Forest Management in a Disturbance Context: A Case Study of Canadian Sub-Boreal Forests

Part 3 Asia

• 7 Sustainability of an Urban Forest: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore
• 8 Recent Problems and New Directions for Forest Producer Cooperatives Established in Common Forests in Japan
• 9 Conflict and Corollaries on Forest and Indigenous People: Experience from Bangladesh
• 10 Setting Up Locally Appropriate Ecological Criteria and Indicators to Evaluate Sustainable Forest Management in Dinh Hoa District (Northern Vietnam)

Part 4 Europe

• 11 Sustainable Forest Management in Galicia (Spain): Lessons Learned
• 12 Can Forest Management in Protected Are

InTeO | 2012 | ISBN: 9535105114 9789535105114 | 269 pages | PDF | 14 MB

ed. by Jorge Martin-Garcia and Julio Javier Diez