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《Journal of Sustainable Forestry》2013,32(1-2):359-384
Summary This paper presents a new approach to the conceptualization and assessment of well-being in forest-dependent communities. Studies of well-being in agrarian communities, boomtowns (communities undergoing rapid growth), and forest-dependent communities are examined to highlight common themes in natural resource-dependent community studies. Social indicators are discussed and a summary of weaknesses presented. The county, a commonly used unit of analysis, is rejected in favor of a more socially relevant unit. This new approach to well-being in forest communities begins with definitions of the terms community and forest dependence. The work of Amartya Sen, whose conceptualization of well-being focuses on the real opportunities people have and their achievements in light of their opportunities, forms the foundation of the new approach proposed here. Sen's conceptualization is broadened by focusing on the community and acknowledging the importance of a sense of place. Methodologically, this new approach adds to the evaluation of social indicators an assessment of community capacity that consists of three components: physical, human, and social capital. It also involves evaluating how residents draw on and develop these aspects of their community to meet local needs and create opportunities. This results in a well-being assessment that includes static as well as dynamic measures of how communities respond to and create opportunities to improve local well-being. 相似文献
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Dora Carías Vega 《Journal of Sustainable Forestry》2019,38(7):651-669
ABSTRACTThe Mayan Biosphere Reserve in the region of Petén, Guatemala and the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico have well-established experiences of community-based forestry and community forestry enterprises within the area known as the Mayan forest. Context has been a key factor shaping the trajectories of these two cases. Several scholars have highlighted the usefulness of understanding the role of context in the emergence and functioning of common property regimes. However, scholarship has been dominated by the mainstream school of common property, which sees these regimes as arising out of voluntary, rational action with the main intent of conserving a common-pool natural resource. This paper seeks to answer the call for more research on context for common property regimes. The article discusses how policies, history, and culture have shaped the trajectory of community forestry in both countries. Policies present choices, opportunities, and constraints, while history and culture can facilitate or hinder taking advantage of such opportunities. Communities have agency not only to react, but also to adapt. These two cases present overriding themes that strengthen the alternative literature on common property regimes and also offer lessons to policy makers, practitioners, nongovernmental organizations, and communities practicing forestry. 相似文献
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《Journal of Sustainable Forestry》2013,32(1):67-79
Abstract Two communities, Ixtlan and Chalchijapa, located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, are compared based on their utilization of local forests. The long-settled community of Ixtlan, with its pine-oak forests, is compared to the recently established village of Chalchijapa which is located in rain forest on the edge of the Chimalapas nature reserve. Constraints such as forest type and management, land ownership and tenure, and current and future plans for timber extraction and utilization are examined, as are methods of wood processing and milling. The degree and type of wood utilization carried out by these two timber-dependent communities is greatly reflective of the local forest type and social structure. 相似文献
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John C. Bliss Erin Clover Kelly Jesse Abrams Conner Bailey Janice Dyer 《Small-Scale Forestry》2010,9(1):53-66
In the past decade ownership of the corporate forestry sector in the USA has undergone remarkable transformation. Corporate
consolidation, separation of processing capacity ownership from timberland ownership, and disinvestment from timberland ownership
altogether have occurred rapidly and on a global scale. Vertically-integrated forest products companies, once the standard
model for publically-traded corporations, have all but disappeared. A new class of timberland investors now dominates the
timberland estate. These new owners can be viewed as the most recent manifestation of capital from the core seeking rent in
the distant periphery. While in this respect they resemble their industrial forestry predecessors, they differ markedly with
regard to landholding objectives, time horizons, management capacities and other characteristics. This transformation has
created new challenges and opportunities for other forest owners and for rural communities. Many timber processing mills have
closed, restricting markets for smallholder wood. While much former industrial timberland remains in industrial-style timber
management, some has been subdivided for ‘highest and best use,’ and conservation buyers have assumed control of a few large
blocks. Further fragmentation of the industrial forest estate is anticipated, presenting both challenges and opportunities
to small-scale forest owners and rural communities. This paper outlines the dynamics of forest ownership restructuring, posits
alternative future scenarios for small-scale forestry, and points to potentially useful future research. 相似文献
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森林认证与中国木材产品市场 总被引：1，自引：2，他引：1
森林认证作为促进森林可持续经营的一种市场机制已经在世界范围内广泛开展 ,特别是欧洲和北美国家的消费者普遍要求在市场上销售的木材产品应贴有经过认证的标签 ,以证明他们所购买的木材产品源自可持续经营的森林。因此 ,中国的森林经营认证和林产品的产销监管链认证 (绿色标签 )对于促进森林的可持续经营 ,稳定企业现有产品市场份额 ,进入新市场具有重要意义。 相似文献
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Ajit Menon Christelle Hinnewinkel Claude Garcia Sylvie Guillerme Nitin Rai Siddhartha Krishnan 《Small-Scale Forestry》2009,8(4):515-527
Rural people in developing countries including India continue to access a number of types of ‘forests’ to meet specific needs
such as fuelwood, fodder, food, non-timber forest produce and timber for both subsistence and income generation. While a plethora
of terms exist to describe the types of forests that rural people use—such as farm forests, social forests, community forests
and small-scale forests—the expression domestic forest has recently been proposed. Domestic forest is a term aimed at capturing the diversity of forests transformed and managed
by rural communities and a way to introduce a new scientific domain that recognises that production and conservation can be
reconciled and that local communities can be effective managers. This paper argues in the context of the central Western Ghats
of south India that while the domestic forest concept is a useful umbrella term to capture the diversity of forests used by
rural people, these domestic forests are often not autonomous local forests but sites of contestation between local actors
and the state forest bureaucracy. Hence, a paradigm shift within the forest bureaucracy will only occur if the scientific
forestry community questions its own normative views on forest management and sees forest policy as a means to recognise local
claims and support existing practices of forest dependent communities. 相似文献
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Manuel R. Guariguata Peter Cronkleton Patricia Shanley Peter L. Taylor 《Forest Ecology and Management》2008
We discuss the extent of compatibility of timber and non-timber forest product (NTFP) extraction in two neotropical localities from biophysical, social, and institutional perspectives: the community concession forests of the Petén, Guatemala, and extractivist communities in northern Bolivia. In both localities, timber is harvested via reduced-impact logging (RIL) practices. In Guatemala, the main NTFP extracted is foliage from the understory xate palm (Chamaedorea spp.); in northern Bolivia, the fruits of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa). The Guatemalan case suggests a relatively high degree of compatibility due to low timber harvesting intensities, coupled with temporal, spatial, and social segregation of xate extraction in a well-defined land tenure system. In northern Bolivia, forest management regulations pay little attention to NTFPs and land tenure issues and related conflict complicate efforts to limit timber harvesting impacts on Brazil nut trees. The introduction of timber management plans overlain on customary property rights systems in which the extraction of Brazil nut is organized could undercut its management system. The two case studies suggest that specific legislative, education, and project interventions may help to promote the compatibility of timber and NTFP extraction and management. These include formal training of foresters on NTFP ecology and management while taking into account the perspectives of multiple stakeholders in the design of management plans. Tropical forest users, research managers, and policy makers will also better understand the need for integrated management of timber and NTFPs, if the trade-offs and potential economic benefits from NTFP extraction are clarified. 相似文献
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Community-Based Forest Enterprises in Nepal: An Analysis of Their Role in Increasing Income Benefits to the Poor 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
This paper examines the effective practices and constraints of community-based forest management enterprises (CBFEs) in Nepal
in providing income benefits to the poor. The tenure reform clarity and strengthening of tenure rights at community level
through various CBFM programs in Nepal in the last few decades has enhanced opportunities for the rural people to benefit
from forest-based enterprises. However, a key concerns as these programs have advanced over the years has been whether the
poor benefit from them given their high dependence on the forests. To examine this question, 28 CBFE from Nepal’s mid-hills
and mountain districts were selected purposively from among forest user groups (FUGs) engaged in income-generating activities,
varying in their size of membership, use of forest products and stage of growth. These CBFEs have been broadly categorised
into FUGs, networks, cooperatives and companies. The contribution from enterprises to the household economy was found to be
greatest from companies, followed by cooperatives and then networks. The effective practices of the CBFEs in increasing income
benefits were found to include representation of the poor and marginalized groups in executive committees in the FUGs-based
enterprises, targeted employment of the poorest in the collection of non-timber forest products and in processing units in
networks, and enabling the poor to own share capital in cooperatives and companies. The common constraint across all these
categories was found to be lack of adequate capital to sustain the enterprises without external support.The specific constraints
were small membership and land size among FUGs, lack of legal recognition of networks, lack of management skills and member
discipline for cooperatives, and lack of raw materials and marketing capacity for companies. The paper also discusses: the
importance of further policy support to formalize forest user groups into networks, cooperatives and private companies; value
addition to forest products; and capacity building for CBFEs, government line agencies and business services providers. 相似文献
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Farm and Village Forest Use Practice in Ekiti State: Analysis of Government Policy and Tenure Issues
Joshua Kayode 《Journal of Sustainable Forestry》2013,32(4):321-328
This study analyzed the influence of government policy and tenure issues on farm and village forest use practices in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Three rural communities that were still far from urban influence were selected from each of the 16 local government areas of the state. In each community, 20 household heads were selected and interviewed with the aid of a semi-structured matrix. The interviews aimed at the determination of respondents' socioeconomic status, awareness and belief in the effectiveness or otherwise of the forest laws and regulations, land use, tenure and property rights. Results obtained revealed that the awareness of forest laws and regulations cut across the socio-economic categories. Most of these laws and regulations that were considered to be necessary could also constitute disincentives to sustainable forest development. Three types of land tenure niches—private holdings, commons, and government reserves—exist in the state. These led to land fragmentations in which individuals are now left with small holdings. Individuals with small and medium landholdings found it difficult to invest in tree planting; hence, they meet their subsistence use of wood and non-wood forest products from diverse sources. Individuals with large landholdings were found cultivating cash tree crops; timber species were not cultivated though their wildlings were preserved. Also, when land is let or leased out, tenants were not allowed to invest in tree planting on such land. 相似文献
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Lloyd C. Irland 《Journal of Sustainable Forestry》2013,32(3):189-223
ABSTRACT Forest policies are failing in large areas of the world. In too many nations, forest area is declining, timber revenues are not capturing actual economic values, management plans—where they exist at all—are ignored, and ecologically significant areas are being degraded. In many places, public lands and even national parks cannot be protected against encroachment. Bitter local controversies over forest tenure and use rights persist. In many places, the underlying preconditions for sustainability do not exist in the face of state weakness and failure, corruption, and war. States generally recognized as failed or fragile encompass 15% of the world's forest. A cross tab of forest area (2005) against the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly half of the world's forest is in nations with what TI calls “rampant” corruption. This includes several major nations with extensive forests and important biodiversity hotspots. An encouraging upsurge of willingness to face this issue has occurred in the development community. But uprooting corruption and fixing state failure is easier said than done. Considering this fact, the outlook for more than half of the world's forest area—important to indigenous and forest-dependent people, and containing critical reserves of biodiversity—is grim. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT Diversification in resource management can serve as a strategy to increase both economic well-being and environmental sustainability in rural communities, especially in tropical forested regions. This paper documents and analyzes the recent and rapid regional commercialization of small diameter, lesser-known tropical hardwood species as polewood in Quintana Roo, Mexico, presenting the promises and perils for sustainable management and resource diversification in the context of Mexican economic development and community forestry. We present data from interviews with local farmers and forestry officials involved in community management of timber resources to reveal baseline information regarding the use and management of polewood, locally called palizada. We found the same permitting system used for high-value timber was implemented for polewood without recognizing the complex ecological characteristics of polewood and the different metrics by which polewood and high-value timber are bought and sold. These factors, coupled with an unstable market for this new forest product and potential for overexploitation, present a difficult situation for the sustainable management of polewood. We conclude that incorporating local ecological knowledge in devising polewood management strategies can strengthen local governance and is an essential aspect of managing this emerging market of forest products. 相似文献
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The Russian forest is the last big wood basket of the international timber market and the conservation of the Russian forest
is critical to protect global environment. There is a strong need to analyze present situation of forest policy and forest
industry in Russia. The basic direction of forest policy reform of Russia is decentralization and introduction of market principles.
However, the lack of specialists in forest policy in the regions and the conflict between central and regional governments
has accelerated the confusion of forest policy. Forest management organizations cannot spare enough money for forest management
because of the financial crisis of Russian government. Forest industry has also deteriorated. Although privatization of the
forest industry was completed, it did not improve the management of enterprises and they could not survive the economic crisis.
Output of the forest industry has decreased and most enterprises came close to bankruptcy. Under these circumstances, the
former regional amalgamation of forest industry, which has accumulated hard currency earned by timber export, re-took control
of the industry and tried to increase timber exports even more. However, logging enterprises, facing economic crises, cannot
observe forest regulations and forest management organization cannot control these violations. A recovery of forest industry
may accelerate the degradation of forest resources in Russia. 相似文献
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Farmers’ Fruit Tree-growing Strategies in the Humid Forest Zone of Cameroon and Nigeria 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Ann Degrande Kathrin Schreckenberg Charlie Mbosso Paul Anegbeh Victoria Okafor Jacques Kanmegne 《Agroforestry Systems》2006,67(2):159-175
Many studies have stressed the importance of trees to rural households. Few, however, have focused on actual numbers and densities
of trees in different land-use systems. Based on community-level participatory research in six communities, semi-structured
household interviews and full-farm fruit tree inventories, this study aims to understand farmers’ tree-planting strategies.
Relationships between the diversity, number and density of fruit trees and farm size, land-use system, land tenure, distance
from the homestead, proximity to the forest, market access and household characteristics are investigated. The key factors
determining the differences in tree-growing strategies between communities appear to be market access, land use and access
to forest resources. Within communities, differences between individual households were less easy to explain but tenure was
important as was farm size. Smaller farms had higher fruit tree densities, a relationship that was particularly strong in
communities with good market access. Overall there was a great deal of variability both within and between communities and
many of the factors affecting tree-planting decisions were found to be highly inter-related. Despite this complexity, trees
on farm play an important role in rural household's livelihoods. Therefore, expansion of tree cultivation should be recognized
as a promising pathway to achieve increased income and food production by policy makers and extensionists alike. In addition
to improved tree propagation and management techniques, farmers should be strengthened in the processing and marketing of
agroforestry tree products and more emphasis should be placed on the development of tree enterprises. By doing so, farmers
will be able to earn a more important and consistent income from fruit trees, contributing to the Millennium Development Goals. 相似文献
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无人为干扰下不同生境阔叶林的群落结构特征 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
以江西武夷山国家级自然保护区核心区为无干扰环境,选取河岸带、内陆森林和林线3种生境阔叶林群落为研究对象。群落结构特征分析结果显示：1）不同生境类型的群落建群种不同,但群落各层主要优势种的重要值均呈差异不显著,物种组成上均以壳斗科、樟科、山茶科、山矾科、杜鹃花科、蔷薇科、冬青科等为常见,且种属数较多。2）立木总株数（乔灌木）林线群落高于其他生境群落,但不同生境类型的群落间乔木与灌木平均株数均呈差异不显著。3）群落各层物种的种数及各物种多样性指数均有河岸带＆gt;内陆森林＆gt;林线,乔木层、草本层与层间植物物种种数以及物种多样性Patrick、Gleason、Margalef和Shannon-Weiner指数,河岸带均与其他生境类型群落差异呈显著性;而灌木层物种种数及多样性Simpson和Pielou指数差异不呈显著性。4）散点图和线性回归得出林线群落活立木平均高度和平均胸径均高于其他生境类型的群落。 相似文献
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南方集体林区是我国速生丰产用材林建设的重点地区。通过对江西、福建、广东、广西速生丰产用材林经营模式的问卷调查,探讨了集体林权制度改革对南方速生丰产用材林经营的影响。调查分析认为,林改后南方集体林区营造速生丰产用材林必须达到一定的规模,以合作组织方式组织经营生产和木材供应;应克服各种影响因素,集约经营,开拓融资渠道,通过高投入高收入的经济模式,不断提高林农经济收入。 相似文献
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集体林权制度改革对农户采伐行为的影响 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
使用2005和2010年江西省集体林区调查数据,运用Probit模型研究集体林权制度改革对农户采伐决策的影响,运用FE和RE研究林改对木材和竹材采伐量的影响。结果表明:集体林权制度改革可显著增加木材和竹材的采伐量,其中林下资源的使用权可以延迟农户对木材的采伐,农户倾向于在产权明确的林地上进行采伐,同时家庭经营林业的方式不利于木材供给的增加。基于本文的实证,建议在勘界发证的工作中应首先确保用材林地,提倡以林地流转的方式实现林地的规模经营。 相似文献
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集体林是我国众多林权农户的重要生计来源。为了实现农户增收和森林资源增长,我国从2008年开始全面启动了新一轮集体林权制度改革。集体林改政策可以分为主体改革和配套改革2类。主体改革通过下放林权和分权到户,为新一轮集体林改奠定了基石,并于2013年我国基本完成林权主体改革任务;其后,各地逐步进行配套改革,主要解决主体改革后在集体林地流转、社会化服务、林权抵押贷款、集体林采伐管理等方面仍存在的问题。集体林改政策效应研究可为集体林权制度深化改革提供理论依据与决策参考,但已有相关文献尚缺乏对新一轮集体林改整体上的经济社会以及生态效应的研究。文中在简要回顾集体林改研究进程的基础上,系统梳理集体林改的经济、社会、生态绩效政策效应相关文献,分析已有研究的贡献和不足,以期为后续研究提供参考。 相似文献
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《Journal of Sustainable Forestry》2013,32(2):15-44
Abstract In many countries of Africa and Asia, timber production is dominated by concession contracts in public forests. In the neo-tropics, however, timber production occurs on both public and private lands; a mixture that moves countries of the neo-tropics towards the complex systems of forestry sectors in the developed world. Therefore, much of the forest taxation and public forest management literature that currently exists is pertinent to new forest policy decisions in developing countries. Unfortunately, the similarities between forest policies in the neo-tropics and those of developed countries have largely been ignored. This paper begins the process of bridging that gap to show how existing literature is important to the design of timber concessions and accompanying policy instrument design. Although the principles we discuss here apply in any mixed harvest forest economy, we use Brazil as an example because it is in the process of adopting a system of timber concessions in national forests. In our discussion, we suggest that concessions are not a perfect substitute for private forestry in the neo-tropics; concession and other instrument policies must be designed jointly; and because concession policies and government revenue objectives may be linked, the expansion of concessions must be carefully monitored. 相似文献