This chapter describes forestry from Gilgamesh and Greeks to Brandis' Scientific Forestry in the tropics; discusses forest policy and administration from the Dalhousie/Brandis Revolution to postmodern dissolution; and explores postmodern post-1970 Timber Bonanza and failing public action. Further,...

This book is the result of the COST Action E51 on 'Integrating Innovation and Development Policies for the Forest Sector', which studied innovation policies and processes in the forest sector in Europe. It contains 18 chapters, which are grouped into 2 parts: one on the innovation field of...

The study of innovation with regard to territorial services is often complicated by the public or quasipublic good character of many territorial services connected to forestry. Although firm-level innovation can and does occur in relation to territorial goods and services, much innovation occurs...

Science is an essential underpinning to sustainable forestry. When a particular scientific discipline is applied, though, the policymaker gets facts, concepts and values of the discipline all mixed up together, making it difficult to apply simultaneously the ideas from different disciplines....

The concept proposed in this chapter is a holistic approach that is appropriate to the location, the community and the market availability. The sustainability of the forest has three elements and the proposal is that these cannot be taken in isolation. To achieve environmental sustainable...

This paper draws on a decade of research at the Center for International Forestry Research on the underlying causes of deforestation in tropical forests, supplemented with selected empirical results from other sources. The impacts of a resource boom as an example of impacts from an extra-sectoral...

This paper presents the lessons emerging from recent research efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization aimed at extending current thinking about the environmental, social and economic roles of agriculture including forestry. It also discusses the effectiveness of cross-sectoral policy...

The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) forestry accounts are described, and the status of current efforts to develop forestry accounts at the global and national levels is reported. This paper concludes that the SEEA can be used to integrate non-market forest goods and services...

This chapter presents and discusses the results of the application of a social accounting matrix (SAM) to show and discusses the linkages between non-wood forest products (NTFPs) and other sectors in the tribal economy of the Western Ghats regions of Karnataka state in India. The Kanara forest...

This chapter examines some basic relationships between people and forest resources in a case study of the Dhuseri community forest in the Terai region of Nepal. The Dhuseri community forest was established in 1996 and is under the jurisdiction of Nawalparasi district. The case study analysed the...