Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry

<p>This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry. </p><p>Containing contributions from academics practitioners and professionals the <em>Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry</em> presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa Asia Europe and the Americas. The <em>Handbook</em> begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry conservation and ecosystem management relationships with industrial forestry trade and supply systems land tenure and land grabbing and climate change are addressed. The <em>Handbook</em> also focuses on governance looking at the range of approaches employed including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The <em>Handbook</em> reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly the <em>Handbook</em> not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions. </p><p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry</em> is essential reading for academics professionals and practitioners interested in forestry natural resource management conservation and sustainable development.</p>