The economic theory of community forestry
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The economic theory of community forestry
(Routledge explorations in environmental economics)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Community forestry is an expanding model of forest management around the world. Over a quarter of forests in developing countries are now owned by or assigned to communities and there is a growing community forestry movement in developed countries such as Canada and the USA. There is, however, no economic theory of community forestry and no systematic treatment of the potential economic advantages of promoting Community forestry in developed countries. As a result much of the policy debate over forest management and forest tenure rests on confused and often erroneous views held by policy makers and encouraged by the dominant forestry industry.
The Economic Theory of Community Forestry aims to address this gap and provides the tools for understanding community forestry movement as an alternative form of ownership that can mobilize community resources and encourage innovation. It uses a wide range of economic principles to show how community forestry can be economically superior to conventional forestry; provides examples from Canadian practice; and discusses the regulatory regime that policy makers must put in place to benefit from community forestry.
This book will be of interest to policy makers, activists, community forestry managers and members, foresters and forestry students.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
1 The Plan of the Book
I SETTING THE SCENE
2 What is Community Forestry?
3 Traditional Territories, Industrial Forestry, and the Community Forest
4 Tenure, Property Rights, Community Rights
II ECONOMIC THEORY
5 Forests and Joint Production
6 Human Capital and Social Capital
7 The Efficiency of Community Forestry
8 Externalities and Community Forestry
9 Public goods and public forests
III COMMUNITY
10 Transaction cost theory applied to community forestry
11 The Creative Potential of Community Forestry: the small world phenomenon
12 Coops, worker managed firms and community forests
13 Community Forestry and the Professional Forester
14 Conclusions and Policy Advice
Appendices
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