People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance

摘要: Unplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, can cause significant hardships for rural communities by destroying critical stocks fuel, fodder, food, and building materials. It also have profound regional global consequences contributing to biodiversity loss, erosion, floods, lowered water tables, climate change.People Forests explores complex interactions between local their forests. focuses on rules govern manage forest resources. As part International Forestry Resources Institutions research program, each contributors employs same systematic, comparative, interdisciplinary methods examine why some people use forests sustainably while others do not. The case studies come from fieldwork Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Nepal, Uganda.People offers policymakers a sophisticated view management develop policy options biophysical social scientists better understanding linkages residents, institutions, forests.Contributors : Arun Agrawal, Abwoli Y. Banana, C. Dustin Becker, Clark Gibson, William Gombya-Ssembajjwe, Rosario Leon, Margaret A. McKean, Elinor Ostrom, Charles M. Schweik, George Varughese, Mary Beth Wertime.