Description
Providing a critical and incisive examination of community forestry, this is a detailed study of complex issues in local forest governance, community sustainability and grassroots environmentalism. It explores community forestry as an alternative form of local collaborative governance in globally significant developed forest regions, with examples ranging from the Gulf Islands of British Columbia to Scandinavia. Responding to the global trend in devolution of control over forest resources and the ever-increasing need for more sustainable approaches to forest governance, the book highlights both the possibilities and challenges associated with community forestry implementation. It features compelling case studies and accounts from those directly involved with community forestry efforts, providing unique insight into the underlying social processes, issues, events and perceptions. It will equip students, researchers and practitioners with a deep understanding of both the evolution and management of community forestry in a pan-national context.
Chapter
2 Putting community forestry into place: implementation and conflict
THE IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGE
THE CHARACTER OF CONFLICT
CONFLICT AS A DYNAMIC ELEMENT IN COMMUNITY FOREST GOVERNANCE
Personal dynamics (values, beliefs and interests)
3 Keeping New England’s forests common
THE "TOWN FOREST" MOVEMENT
CONSERVING OPEN SPACE THROUGH PUBLIC–PRIVATE–CIVIC COLLABORATION
The Freedom Town Forest, New Hampshire
(Bruce) Lacroix Farm and Family Forest, Moretown, Vermont
4 Experiments and false starts: Ontario’s community forestry experience
APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN ONTARIO
The Agreement Forest Program, 1922–2001
The Algonquin Forest Authority/Agence de foresterie du parc Algonquin, 1974 to present
Wendaban Stewardship Authority, 1990–1995
Ontario Community Forest Pilot Program, 1991–1994
Westwind Stewardship Incorporated, 1996 to present
SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES WITH COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN ONTARIO
5 A “watershed” case for community forestry in British Columbia’s interior: the Creston Valley Forest Corporation
COMMUNITY CONTEXT, TOWN OF CRESTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA
INTEGRATING COMMUNITY WATERSHED AND FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE EMERGENCE OF THE CRESTON VALLEY FOREST CORPORATION
IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES
Local competition for tenure
Contentious area and degraded site conditions
Weak provincial support and bureaucracy
Unrealistic goals and objectives
Inadequate financing and skills
Unsupportive stumpage appraisal system
Poor markets and no economy of scale
Biophysical context: difficult operating area and site conditions
6 Contested forests and transition in two Gulf Island communities
EMERGENCE OF THE DENMAN COMMUNITY FOREST COOPERATIVE
CASE 2: KLAHOOSE FIRST NATION AND CORTES ECOFORESTRY SOCIETY PARTNERSHIP, CORTES ISLAND
ORIGINS OF THE KLAHOOSE FIRST NATION/CORTES ECOFORESTY SOCIETY PARTNERSHIP
TWO ISLANDS, TWO OUTCOMES
Land ownership and stakeholders
Local decision-making structures and processes
MOTIVATIONS FOR LOCAL CONTROL: NATURAL RESOURCE AND AMENITY DEVELOPMENT PRESSURE
7 The southwestern United States: community forestry as governance
A STORY FROM THE US SOUTHWEST
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LIMITS
8 Community access and the culture of stewardship in Finland and Sweden
THE EVOLUTION OF SWEDISH POLICY: FROM DICTATES TO PERSUASIVE PLANNING
FINNISH POLICY AND PLANNING: THE HIERARCHICAL DISINTEGRATION OF PARTICIPATION
BUILDING A CULTURE OF STEWARDSHIP
9 Community forestry: a way forward
ADDRESSING LOCAL VALUES AND CONFLICT THROUGH COMMUNITY FORESTRY
ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN FOREST GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT
Community Forestry
：Local Values, Conflict and Forest Governance
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