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'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard
poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility
for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are
perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful
guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader,
IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the
catalyst for a real paradigm shift - not just in capital cities and
international conference centres, but also on the ground in
locations where poor people are struggling to make a living.'
Policy Matters (praise for the first edition). High levels of rural
poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and
practical imperative to find more equitable and realistic ways of
achieving conservation. Livelihoods of the rural poor and options
for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity are so
intimately entwined that they are better addressed through an
integrated approach, irrespective of whether the primary motivation
is one of development or one of conservation. This highly
accessible book, a revised edition of the 2005 book Poverty and
Conservation: Landscapes, People and Power, offers a grand overview
of the issues and a conceptual framework for addressing poverty
reduction in the context of conservation, and conservation in the
context of poverty reduction. It will appeal to professionals
working in the field as well as to students across the fields of
conservation, development and sustainability. It looks at the
rationale for addressing the links between conservation and poverty
reduction, arguing that such a focus is both ethically essential
and a source of opportunities. It alsoreviews experiences in
dealing with people and conservation and identifies some key
lessons and concepts. The book presents cases studies illustrating
various approaches and a discussion of some of the issues that
appear when implementing combined conservation and poverty
reduction. The book emphasizes the importance of multiple spatial
scales and negotiating trade-offs between scales. It also tackles
the complex issue of institutional landscapes and the way in which
changes at various institutional levels can lead to different and
often more positive outcomes. The Final part summarizes some of the
main features of the authors' integrated approach and identifies
some of the challenges involved in efforts to combine conservation
and poverty reduction. Published with IUCN - The World Conservation
Union.
At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about
ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being
translated into practical solutions on the ground CLAUDE MARTIN,
WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs
waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates
that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as
ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of
the public JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book
demonstrates that [ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest
management] are neither alternative methods of forest management
nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They
are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of
managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize
benefits to all stakeholders ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM
THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management
and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly
being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in
which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have
occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from
Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and
Central America provide a wealth of international examples of
innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political
ecology and economics of forest management, and review the
information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators
to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter
draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent
decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a
must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers
concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all
those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and
as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR
'This book has been written by a team of experts from a wide
variety of institutions... The result is by far the most
comprehensive and easy to understand treatment of FLR yet written.'
ACHIM STEINER (DIRECTOR GENERAL, IUCN) AND MANOEL SOBRAL FILHO
(EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ITTO), FROM THE PREFACE Forest loss and
degradation have caused a decline in the quality of ecosystem
services around the world. But fixing the problem takes more than
just planting trees; practitioners increasingly realize that a
landscape approach is essential. This handbook, authored and edited
by international authorities in the field of forestry, is the first
practical guide to using forest landscape restoration (FLR) to
repair the damage done to forest lands by poor land management
practice. Using research backed by respected institutions such as
ITTO and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), it explains how to
increase the resilience of landscapes and the communities they
support through FLR. The main aim of FLR is not to re-establish
pristine forest, even if this were possible; rather, the objective
is to make landscapes more resilient and thereby keep future
management options open. It also aims to support communities as
they strive to increase and sustain the benefits they derive from
land management. This book explains the concept of FLR and guides
the reader through the steps that must be taken to put it into
practice. It is an indispensable aid for practitioners in all
aspects of forestry and natural resource management. Published with
ITTO and IUCN
'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard
poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility
for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are
perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful
guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader,
IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the
catalyst for a real paradigm shift - not just in capital cities and
international conference centres, but also on the ground in
locations where poor people are struggling to make a living.'
Policy Matters (praise for the first edition). High levels of rural
poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and
practical imperative to find more equitable and realistic ways of
achieving conservation. Livelihoods of the rural poor and options
for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity are so
intimately entwined that they are better addressed through an
integrated approach, irrespective of whether the primary motivation
is one of development or one of conservation. This highly
accessible book, a revised edition of the 2005 book Poverty and
Conservation: Landscapes, People and Power, offers a grand overview
of the issues and a conceptual framework for addressing poverty
reduction in the context of conservation, and conservation in the
context of poverty reduction. It will appeal to professionals
working in the field as well as to students across the fields of
conservation, development and sustainability. It looks at the
rationale for addressing the links between conservation and poverty
reduction, arguing that such a focus is both ethically essential
and a source of opportunities. It alsoreviews experiences in
dealing with people and conservation and identifies some key
lessons and concepts. The book presents cases studies illustrating
various approaches and a discussion of some of the issues that
appear when implementing combined conservation and poverty
reduction. The book emphasizes the importance of multiple spatial
scales and negotiating trade-offs between scales. It also tackles
the complex issue of institutional landscapes and the way in which
changes at various institutional levels can lead to different and
often more positive outcomes. The Final part summarizes some of the
main features of the authors' integrated approach and identifies
some of the challenges involved in efforts to combine conservation
and poverty reduction. Published with IUCN - The World Conservation
Union.
At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about
ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being
translated into practical solutions on the ground CLAUDE MARTIN,
WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs
waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates
that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as
ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of
the public JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book
demonstrates that [ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest
management] are neither alternative methods of forest management
nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They
are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of
managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize
benefits to all stakeholders ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM
THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management
and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly
being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in
which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have
occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from
Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and
Central America provide a wealth of international examples of
innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political
ecology and economics of forest management, and review the
information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators
to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter
draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent
decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a
must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers
concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all
those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and
as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR
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