The purpose of forests : follies of development

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The purpose of forests : follies of development

Jack Westoby ; with a foreword by A.J. Leslie

B. Blackwell, 1987

  • pbk.

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ISBN 9780631156574

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This volume brings together, for the first time, the principal writings of arguably the most important figure in the developmental aspects of international forestry in the postwar period. Jack Westoby was the first to argue that forest resources could be harnessed to Third World development. For three decades he has been at the centre of debates about the role of forestry in socio-economic development and his writings, speeches and comments have advanced theory and influenced practice. He has continually posed new questions about the role of forest development in the third world. Papers in this collection not only summarized the issues and the experience gained; often they changed the direction of the debate. The book is in three parts. The seminal paper in the first chapter held out the promise that forest industries could be mechanisms for development, and the rest of the first part elaborates this idea. Part Two reveals the author's growing doubts about the consequences of the forestry development projects which were actually being implemented. These doubts led eventually to his famous denunciation of tropical forest development which impoverished the many and enriched the few. This and other chapters in the third part look to an alternative, a forestry oriented towards people's needs. The book should be of interest to academic and professional foresters, forest managers and administrators, development economists, sociologists, political economists, rural sociologists, and conservation groups.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The Promise: The Role of the Forest Industries in the Attack on Underdevelopment
  • Prospects for Expanding Forest Products Exports from Developing Countries
  • The Forester as Agent of Change
  • World Forest Development - Markets, Men and Methods
  • One World Forestry - New Zealand's Role. Part 2 Rethinking: Changing Objectives of Forest Management
  • Forestry Education
  • A Note for Discussion
  • On Behalf of the Uninvited Guests
  • Responsibility
  • Making Trees Serve People. Part 3 New Directions: "Making Green the Motherland" - Forestry in China
  • Forestry and the Chinese Revolution
  • Forest Industries for Socio-Economic Development
  • Forestry, Foresters and Society
  • Forestry and Underdevelopment Revisited
  • Foresters and Politics.
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pbk. ISBN 9780631171430

Description

This volume brings together the principal writings of an important figure in the developmental aspects of international forestry in the postwar period. Jack Westoby was the first to argue that forest resources could be harnessed to Third-World development. For three decades he was at the centre of debates about the role of forestry in socio-economic development and his writings, speeches and comments have advanced theory and influenced practice. He continually posed new questions about the role of forest development in the Third World. Papers in this collection not only summarized the issues and the experience gained, often they changed the direction of the debate. The book is in three parts. The seminal paper in the first chapter held out the promise that forest industries could be mechanisms for development, and the rest of the first part elaborates this idea. The second part reveals the author's growing doubts about the consequences of the forestry development projects which were actually being implemented. These doubts led eventually to his famous denunciation of tropical forest development which impoverished the many and enriched the few. This and other chapters in the third part look to an alternative, a forestry oriented towards people's needs.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The promise
  • the role of the forest
  • industries in the attack on underdevelopment
  • prospects for expanding forest products exports from developing countries
  • the forester as agent of change
  • world forest development - markets, men and methods
  • one world forestry - New Zealand's role. Part 2 Rethinking: changing objectives of forest management
  • forestry education
  • a note for discussion
  • on behalf of the uninvited guests
  • responsibility
  • making trees serve people. Part 3 New directions: "making green the Motherland" - forestry in China
  • forestry and the Chinese Revolution
  • forest industries for socio-economic development
  • forestry, foresters and society
  • forestry and underdevelopment revisited
  • foresters and politics.

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