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Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern
nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for
regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide
opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single
country capabilities. This book illustrates the diversity of
transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience
or the opportunities that exist for multinational regulatory
regimes, monitoring and enforcement. It presents ten case studies
of transborder natural resources that are of interest to two or
more neighboring countries, and that are subject to, or in need of
bilateral or multinational coordinated management. The case studies
include the exploitation of specific marine resources in
international waters, rivers that travel through several countries
and contiguous tropical forests across national borders, and where
commodities, nature conservation or even territorial integrity are
at stake. They are drawn from across the globe, including flood
management in Western Europe, tropical forests in the Western
Amazon, hydropower development in the Mekong region of South-east
Asia, forest conservation in Central Africa and marine resource and
fisheries exploitation in the waters of Japan, South-east Asia and
Australia. Together the chapters provide a review of a wide range
of transborder natural resource examples, and the diverse
regulatory regimes that need to be devised to achieve successful
management. An introductory chapter provides a conceptual and
theoretical underpinning that can guide future research efforts on
similar cases and a concluding chapter draws major conclusions and
implications for related concepts and theories.
Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of
Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues
affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan
region. This book characterizes current biodiversity statuses,
related ecosystem services, and provides new evidence and solutions
for climate change effects on Himalayan animals and plants. Written
by regional and international experts on climate change, ecosystems
and the Himalayas, this book analyzes current species threats, loss
of habitats, and carbon effects. It identifies critical areas
requiring special attention and provides workable solutions for
protection and ecosystem services. As many plant and animal species
continue to be classified as extinct due to climate change,
urbanization, and failing ecosystems, analyses and techniques in
this book offer resolutions for sustaining current risks and
curbing future risks. These can also be applied to other
biodiverse, at-risk regions of the world.
There are many compelling reasons for policymakers to pay more
attention to forested regions and invest more resources there.
Forests provide valuable products and en- ronmental services and
several hundred million extremely poor people live near them.
Perhaps the most compelling reason of all, however, is that unless
policymakers take forest governance seriously and respond better to
the needs of the people living there, these regions will continue
to be breeding grounds for violent con?ict, banditry, and illicit
crops. From Nicaragua s Atlantic Coast to the jungles of Cambodia,
there are several dozen countries around the world that have
experienced severe breakdowns in law and order in their forested
regions. In many of these cases those breakdowns had widespread
economic, social, and political consequences that have threatened
entire societies. You would think that after all of the suffering
over the last few decades in the forested regions of Colombia,
Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, the two Congo s, Liberia, Mozambique,
Philippines, Solomon Islands, Nepal, Angola, Rwanda, Nicaragua,
Cote d Ivoire, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia,
Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, and Vietnam people would
begin to take note. After all, they don t call it jungle warfare
for nothing."
"The book is very effective in communicating the many aspects,
dimensions and interpretations of sustainable forest management
(SFM)...It is clearly born out of an ambitious remit to present an
overview of SFM across all its dimensions. In this, it is by and
large successful... It provides an effective entry into almost any
SFM topic." Review in Scottish Forestry by Professor Jaboury
Ghazoul, ETH Zurich/University of Edinburgh "Achieving Sustainable
Management of Tropical Forests provides an excellent and essential
read for those with responsibility for managing the world's
tropical forests...The editors, Dr Blaser and Dr Hardcastle, are to
be congratulated for editing the chapters into a very consistent
read... Each chapter is authored by an expert or experts in the
particular geography and/or discipline as social, governance,
tenure, biology, rural livelihoods, climate change, products etc."
Journal of Forestry - Society of American Foresters Although global
rates of deforestation have started to decrease, they remain
alarmingly high in many tropical countries. In light of this
challenge, the growing importance of sustainable forest management
(SFM) has been highlighted as a means for improving sustainability
across the sector. Achieving sustainable management of tropical
forests summarises and reviews the rich body of research on
tropical forests and how this research can be utilised to make
sustainable management of tropical forests a standard implementable
strategy for the future. The book features expert discussions on
the economic, political and environmental contexts needed for SFM
to operate successfully, including coverage of the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). With its distinguished editors and
international array of expert authors, Achieving sustainable
management of tropical forests will be a standard reference for
researchers in tropical forest science, international and national
organisations responsible for protection and responsible
stewardship of tropical forests, as well as the commercial sector
harvesting and using tropical forest products.
Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human
well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role
to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention,
however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will
impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these
impacts may, in turn, enhance or undermine the contributions of
forests to climate and development. This book discusses the
conditions that influence how SDGs are implemented and prioritised,
and provides a systematic, multidisciplinary global assessment of
interlinkages among the SDGs and their targets, increasing
understanding of potential synergies and unavoidable trade-offs
between goals. Ideal for academic researchers, students and
decision-makers interested in sustainable development in the
context of forests, this book will provide invaluable knowledge for
efforts undertaken to reach the SDGs. This title is available as
Open Access via Cambridge Core.
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