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Trees, People and Power: (Natural Resource Management Set)

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Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment and the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor.

Until the social and political dimensions of deforestation and forest protection schemes are understood, measures to prevent or slow deforestation are likely to involve technical interventions which will prove ineffective in the long run, and may well result in further impoverishment and environmental degradation. Peter Utting takes a critical look at the experience of forest protection and tree planting in a number of countries and considers how social and political factors affect the feasability of such schemes. Many environmental projects and programmes have failed to balance concerns for the environment with those of human welfare. Until they do, it is unrealistic to expect any significant progress towards sustainable development.

Peter Utting is a senior researcher coordinator with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. He is the author of Economic Adjustment under the Sandinistas (UNRISD, 1991) and Economic Reform and Third World Socialism (Macmillan, 1992).

Originally published in 1993



Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Deforestation and Unsustainable Development
1. Central America: Ecological and Socio-economic
Characteristics
Deforestation and Environmental Degradation
2. Causes of Deforestation: The Processes and Players Involved
Deforestation and Agro-export Development
Agrarian Frontier Colonization
The Cattle Boom
Logging
The Expansion of Export Crops
Infrastructural Development
Fuelwood and Urbanization
3. Structural and Policy Determinants of Deforestation
Agrarian Structure and Land Tenure
Government Policy and Legislation
Deforestation in the 1980s and 1990s: War, Agrarian Reform, Recession and Adjustment
Part II: The Breakdown of Traditional Resource Management Systems
Overview
4. Deforestation and Indian Populations
Central America's Indian Population
State Policy and Indian Rights
Encroachment in Tropical Rainforest Areas
Indians, Graziers and Colonization in Costa Rica
Indians and Logging Companies in Nicaragua
5. Deforestation and Livelihood in Guatemala's Western Highlands
The land Tenure System and the Demise of Communal Protection Mechanisms
The Crisis of Petty Commodity Production and Subsistence Provisioning
6. Deforestation and Shifting Peasant Agriculture
Deforestation and Land Colonization in Panama
Migratory Agriculture in Nicaragua
Part III Forest Protection and Tree Planting Initiatives
Overview
7. The Conservationist Approach: National Parks and Reserves
Protected Area Schemes
8. Protected Area Schemes and Social Conflict in Costa Rica
Two Case Studies: The Carara Biological Reserve and the Osa Peninsula
9. The Project Approach: Reforestation, Sustainable Logging, Agroforestry and Social Forestry Schemes
Reforestation
Sustainable Forest Management
Agroforestry and Social Forestry Schemes
10. Programme and Project Implementation: Concrete Experiences from El Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras
Community Nurseries Programme in El Salvador
Reforestation and Agroforestry Projects in Totonicapin, Guatemala
The Honduran Social Forestry System
11. Alternative Approaches: Revolutionary Change and Grassroots Mobilization
Radical Structural Change: Agrarian Reform and Human Resettlement in Rio San Juan, Nicaragua
Grassroots Mobilization
Deforestation and Forest Protection in Huehuetenango, Guatemala
12. Social and Political Dimensions of Forest Protection
Social and Political Economy Concerns
External Interventions
Social Forces and Local Level Structures
Grassroots Organization and Mobilization
Annex 1 Case Studies, Theme Papers and Researchers
Notes
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Bibliography
Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781134065332
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1134065337
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Natural Resource Management Set


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