Books in the Earthscan Forest Library series

This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities.

"The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. This book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors"--

Discusses forest quality as a useful fresh concept in forest conservation and management. This book uses three main assessment criteria: authenticity; environmental benefits; and, social and economic benefits. It describes a methodology and protocol for collecting and analysing data, and outlines the approach required with these indicators.

"Examines the evidence and explores the many issues raised by changing relationships between the state, the private sector and local livelihoods. Key lessons in how governments can best achieve a balance between private and public involvement are provided by seven case studies from Australia, China

The fate of the world's terrestrial biodiversity depends upon our ability to improve the management of forest ecosystems that have been modified by humans. This book aims to examine the factors that make biodiversity monitoring programs fail or succeed. It covers the design and implementation stages of a forest biodiversity monitoring program.

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance.

Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. This book provides a detailed and systematic comparison of environmental forest policies and enforcement in twenty countries worldwide, covering developed, transition and developing economies.

Presents a study that examines the impacts of neoliberal global governance on forests, and offers an overview of international forest politics. This book is suitable for students of global environmental politics and also for forest policy makers.

Providing an analysis of the issues, options and factors that determine different outcomes and bolstered by a major annex containing tools and tactics, this book offers practical advice on how to formulate, manage and implement policies appropriate to different contexts. It is suitable for policy-makers, forestry practitioners and academics.

In many countries illegal logging accounts for a large share of the harvest. This book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation.

Deals with the various aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues. This title incorporates information on various aspects of developing, selecting and operating a forest certification programme that provides both market security and raises standards of forest management.

The basis of this book is the disparity between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. The book argues for an 'evidence-based approach', drawing information from fifteen projects in the Lower Mekong regions, with the aim of allowing more effective integrated conservation projects.

Bringing together social and political scientists who have been involved in CFLRP, this book addresses what has been learnt through this new way of managing national forests.

First published in 2007

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes. The aim of this book is to better understand the need to take human and institutional factors, as well as the more obvious biophysical, into consideration in FLR.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion