Keepers of the forest: Land management alternatives in southeast Asia

TitleKeepers of the forest: Land management alternatives in southeast Asia
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1990
Series EditorPoffenberger, M
Secondary TitleKumarian Press library of management for development
Number of Pages289
Date PublishedDecember 1990
PublisherAteneo De Manila University Press; Kumarian Press
CityManilia, Philipinnes; West Hartford, CT
LanguageEnglish
ISBN971-550-010-2; 9789715500104
Call NumberSD235.A785K44 1989
Keywordsagroforestry; common property; commons; community forestry; cooperatives; deforestation; empowerment; forest management; forestry; land tenure; land use; land use, rural; participatory research; social aspects; southeast Asia; trees
Abstract

Contains following chapters:

  1. The evolution of forest management systems in southeast Asia (Mark Poffenberger);
  2. A history of state forest management in Java (Nancy Lee Peluso);
  3. The changing upland landscape of the northern Philippines (Percy E. Sajise and Elizabeth A. Omegan);
  4. Forces and policy issues affecting forest use in northeast Thailand (James A. Hafner);
  5. Facilitating change in forestry bureaucracies (Mark Poffenberger);
  6. Diagnostic tools for social forestry; (Jefferson Fox)
  7. Communal forest leases as a tenurial option in the Philippine uplands (Luzviminda B. Cornista and Eva F. Escue);
  8. Identifying appropriate agroforestry technologies in Java (Carol Stoney and Mulyadi Bratamihardj);
  9. Evolving management systems in Thailand (Kamon Pragtong and David E. Thoma);
  10. Migrant farmers and the shrinking forests of northeast Thailand (James A. Hafner and Yaoxvalak Apichatvullop);
  11. Reorienting forest management on Java (Nancy Lee Peluso, Mark Poffenberger and Frances Seymour);
  12. Community participation for conservation area management in the Cyclops Mountains, Irian Jaya, Indonesia (Arthur Mitchell, Yance de Fretes, and Mark Poffenberger);
  13. The growth of the Philippine social forest program (Christopher Gibbs, Edwin Payuan, and Romulo del Castill);
  14. Social forestry in Cebu (Salve B. Borlagdan); and
  15. Steps towards establishing collaborative management (Mark Poffenberger).
URLhttp://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20263005
Research Notes

Local system: LIAS1565579 Local system: (OCoLC)20263005 Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Short TitleKeepers of the forest

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