1st Edition
Forest Community Connections Implications for Research, Management, and Governance
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. Dependency on timber extraction and timber-related industries is no longer a universal characteristic of the forest community. Remoteness is also a less common feature, as technology, workforce mobility, tourism, and 'amenity migrants'... Read more
Preface
Introduction
1. Community and Forest Connections: Continuity and Change
Part I: Understanding Forest Communities
2. Social Assessment of Forest Communities: For Whom and for What?
3.Socioeconomic Monitoring and Forest Management
4. Engaging Communities Through Participatory Research
Part II: Communities in the Context of Emerging and Persistent Forest Management Issues
5. Evolving Interdependencies of Community and Forest Health
6. Communities and Wildfire Policy
7. Amenity Migration, Rural Communities, and Public Lands
8. Integrating Commercial Nontimber Forest Product Harvesters into Forest Management
9. Job Quality for Forest Workers
Part III: Communities and Forest Governance
10. Institutional Arrangements in Community-based Forestry
11. Family Forest Owners
12. Creating Community Forests
13. Collaborative Forest Management
14. Taking Stock of Community and Forest Connections
Index
Biography
Ellen M. Donoghue is a social scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Her research focuses on the institutional dimensions of community and resource management agency interactions. Victoria E. Sturtevant is professor of sociology in the Department of Environmental Studies at Southern Oregon University. Her research has focused on forest communities in transition; collaborative stewardship, monitoring, and planning; and the social dimensions of wildfire.
'This book provides a comprehensive understanding of what has occurred in what otherwise might be considered tumultuous times. The past two decades have seen a dramatic shift in the social forces that affect natural resources policy. This shift has created many new and innovative relationships among individuals, organizations, communities, and forest ecosystems. Policymakers, forest managers, and community leaders will find the book useful as they work toward understanding the dynamics of natural resources management today.' Gordon Bradley, University of Washington
