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People Managing Forests: The Link Between Human Well Being and Sustainability
Carol J. Pierce Colfer and Yvonne Byron, editors


Introduction*, History and Conceptual Framework

Section I: Gender and Diversity in Forest Management

1. Gender and Diversity in Assessing of Sustainable Forest Management and Human Well Being: Reflections on Assessment Methods Tests Conducted in Bulungan (Cynthia McDougall)
2. The Place of Rural Women in the Management of Forest Resources: The Case of Mbalmayo and Neighbouring Areas in Cameroon (Anne Marie Tiani).
3. Changing Gender Relationships and Forest Use: A Case Study from Komassi Cameroon (Katrina Brown and Sandrine Lapuyade)* -- 30 KB --

Section II: A "Conservation Ethic" in Forest Management

4. Traditional Knowledge, Practice of Biodiversity Conservation. The Benuaq Dayak Community of East Kalimantan (Mustofa A. Sardjono and Ismayadi Samsoedin)
5. Assessing People's Perceptions of Forests Research in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Colfer, Woelfel, Wadley and Harwell)
6. In Search of a Conservation Ethic (Agus Salim, Bertin Tchikangwa, Anne Marie Tiani, Mary Ann Brocklesby, Mustofa Agung Sardjono, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer)

Section III: Security of Intergenerational Access to Resources

7. Intergenerational Equity and Sharing of Benefits in a Developing Island State (Mario Guenter)
8. Assessing Intergenerational Access to Resources: Using Criteria and Indicators (Colfer, Wadley, Harwell and Prabhu)
9. Sustainability and Security of Intergenerational Access to Resources and Parcipatory Mapping Studies in Gabon (Norbert Gami and Robert Nasi).
10. Soil Fertility and the Generation Gap The Bënë of Southern Cameroon (Diane Russell and Nicodeme Tchamou)
11.Access to Resources in Forest Rich and Forest Poor Contexts (Roberto Porro, Anne Marie Tiani, Mary Ann Brocklesby, Bertin Tchikangwa, Mustofa Agung Sardjono, Agus Salim, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer)

Section IV: Rights and Responsibilities to Manage Cooperatively and Equitably

12. From "Participation" to "rights and responsibilities" in Forest Management: Workable Methods and Unworkable Assumptions (Colfer and Wadley)* -- 27 KB --
13. Rights and Means to Manage Cooperatively and Equitably: Forest Management among Brazilian Transamazon Colonists (Noemi Miyasaka Porro)
14. Rights to Manage Cooperatively and Equitably in Forest Rich and Forest Poor Contexts (Bertin Tchikangwa, Mary Ann Brocklesby, Anne Marie Tiani, Mustofa Agung Sardjono, Roberto Porro, Agus Salim and Carol J. Pierce Colfer)

Section V: Comparisons: Geographical and Temporal

15. Sustainable Rural Communities: General Principles and North American Indicators (Joseph A. Tainter)* -- 286 KB --
16. Forest Cover Change Analysis as a Proxy Sustainability Assessment using Remote Sensing and GIS in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Dennis, Colfer and Puntodewo)

Concluding Remarks, with Next Steps

Acknowledgments

Bibliography


Editor Bios:

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is programme leader for CIFOR’s Adaptive Co-Management of Forests Programme and co-author of Beyond Slash and Burn: Building on Indigenous Management of Borneo's Tropical Rainforests.

Yvonne Byron is a staff researcher at CIFOR. She is coauthor of In Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socioeconomic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula.


Endorsements:

"Debunks reductionist suppositions and myths around the relationship between sustainable forest management and human well-being."

-- Jack Ruitenbeek, HJ Ruitenbeek Resource Consulting Limited

"An impressive piece of coordinated research on the 'inholder' problem. An important reference for scientists who are concerned about biodiversity conservation."

--Thomas K. Rudel, Rutgers University

"The diversity of the contributions is a strength, as is its local ethnographic detail."

--Michael Dove, Yale University


Publication Info:

March 2001 / approx. 447 pages (index) / 6 x 9
Cloth, 1-891853-05-8 / $50.00
Paper, 1-891853-06-6 / $25.95

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