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"For twenty years, we have watched TV specials on the destruction of tropical forests -- an acre a second lost, every second for twenty years. This beautifully written book takes you right to the middle of the current international debate about what to do about it. It pulls no punches and proposes its own provocative solution. It offers a perspective that cannot be ignored and an answer that needs to be tried."--James Gustave Speth, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science
"For more than a century, the conservation movement has dedicated its energy to protecting the Earth's biodiversity. WWF has built its conservation philosophyand foundation for over forty years on principles of sound science, effective public policy, and recognition of the fundamental role local people bring to achieving tangible conservation results on the ground. Roger Stone and Claudia D'Andrea take us on a tour of the tropical forested regions of the world and capture important lessons about the merits of local control over forest resources. Their wide-ranging portrayal of community-based forest management arrangements, set within the global context of deforestation and loss of biodiversity, provides compelling testimony to the wisdom of empowering local people and nurturing their spirit as effective forest stewards."--Kathryn S. Fuller, President, World Wildlife Fund
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate This book based on extensive international field research highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place Roger D Stone and Claudia DAndrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower communitybased forest stewards Along the way they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animalsIn their travels to research this book the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests With engagingly written case studies from Thailands Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines from Indonesia India and Africa to Brazil Mexico and Central America they introduce us to the communities and the individuals the governments the loggers the agencies and the local groups who vie for forest resources Contrasting communitybased efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestlandThis book argues we are paying a terrible pricepolitically economically and environmentallyfor allowing tropical forests to be stripped Communitybased forestry is no panacea but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique. Seller Inventory # DADAX0520230892
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Book Description Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Offers a tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. This book introduces readers to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources.Klappentex. Seller Inventory # 594721682