Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry

<p>This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry. </p><p>Containing contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the <em>Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry</em> presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The <em>Handbook</em> begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry, conservation and ecosystem management, relationships with industrial forestry, trade and supply systems, land tenure and land grabbing, and climate change are addressed. The <em>Handbook</em> also focuses on governance, looking at the range of approaches employed, including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches, and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The <em>Handbook</em> reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly, the <em>Handbook</em> not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry, but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions. </p><p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry</em> is essential reading for academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in forestry, natural resource management, conservation, and sustainable development.</p> <p>1. Introduction <b>Part 1. Spaces for community forestry in State- and timber-dominated landscapes </b>2. The difficult art of carving space(s) for community forestry in the Quebec regime. 3. Community forestry in extractive reserves: The story of Verde para Sempre in Pará State, Brazil. <b>Part 2. Multi-level governance and new governance approaches – Global </b>4. Non-timber forest product value chain development: Lessons from a University’s 20-year partnership in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. 5. Pathways to community timber production: A comparative analysis of two well-established community-based forest enterprises in Mexico and Brazil. 6. Social Forestry and land tenure conflicts in Indonesia. 7. Commercial timber plantations as a means to land and economic restitution in South Africa. 8. Community forestry in Australia: Caring for Country, land, and the bush. <b>Part 3. Inter-agency collaborations in Community Forestry – USA </b>9. Old World and New World collision: Historic land grabs and the contemporary recovery of Indigenous land management practices in the western USA. 10. Community forest ownership, rights, and governance regimes in the United States. 11. Community-based forestry in the western United States: Reimagining the role of communities in federal forest management. 12. The Weaverville Community Forest: Putting community in the forest. 13. Community management of Native American, municipal, and private managed forests in northern California, USA. <strong>Part 4. Voluntary forest certification schemes in community forestry</strong> 14. Unfinished business: Rethinking certification for smallholders in Southeast Asia. 15. An assessment of FSC certification solutions for smallholders and community-managed forests. 16. Environmental and socio-economic impacts of community forestry and individual small-scale logging in Cameroon. <b>Part 5. Indigenous forestry / all forest values including Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) </b>17. The Mistik story: A community forestry approach to large-scale industrial forest management and production. 18. Listening watchfully: Following the Liìl̓wat pathway towards reciprocal and relational forest research, in Liìl̓wat Indigenous Territory, British Columbia, Canada. 19. 'We all have this mother’: Land tenure conflicts and Indigenous forest communities in Argentina. <b>Part 6. Community forestry associations, gender, landscapes </b>20. Community forestry in British Columbia, Canada: History, successes, and challenges. 21. Achieving political rights, enhancing forest livelihoods: Latin American Indigenous and Afrodescendant women’s views. 22. ‘Community’ agroforestry and landscape restoration: Towards recognition of the trade-offs and externalities of tree planting. 23. ‘If there is <em>jangal</em> (forest), there is everything’: Exercising stewardship rights and responsibilities in <em>van panchayat</em> community forests, Johar Valley, Uttarakhand, India. <b>Part 7. Politics and power in community forestry </b>24. Disempowering democracy: Local representation in community and carbon forestry in Africa. 25. Community forestry in Myanmar: Centralised decentralisation under conflictual authoritarianism – not yet rights-based resource federalism. 26. Village forestry under donor-driven forestry interventions in Laos. 27. Decoupling agendas: Forestry reform, decentralisation, and Cambodia’s model of community forestry, 1992–2020. 28. Liberia’s Private Use Permits: Elite capture and dubious community title documents. 29. Community forestry in the changing political and social context of Nepal. <b>Part 8. New directions in community forestry </b>30. Mexican community forestry as a global model for biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation. 31. Community-based empowerment through land reform in Scotland: The case of forest ownership. 32. Dynamics in community forestry in the Netherlands: Impacts of changing cultural ecological knowledge. 33. Conclusion: Some paths ahead for community forestry</p>