Contents
Foreword
1 The Plan of the Book
I SETTING THE SCENE
2 What is Community Forestry?
3 Traditional Territories, Industrial Forestry, and the Community Forest
4 Tenure, Property Rights, Community Rights
II ECONOMIC THEORY
5 Forests and Joint Production
6 Human Capital and Social Capital
7 The Efficiency of Community Forestry
8 Externalities and Community Forestry
9 Public goods and public forests
III COMMUNITY
10 Transaction cost theory applied to community forestry
11 The Creative Potential of Community Forestry: the small world phenomenon
12 Coops, worker managed firms and community forests
13 Community Forestry and the Professional Forester
14 Conclusions and Policy Advice
Appendices
Biography
David Robinson teaches resource economics, econometrics and game theory in the School of Northern and Community Studies at Laurentian University in Northern Ontario, Canada.
