The book improves our understanding of and ability to manage complex landscapes---mosaics of differing land uses---in a more adaptive and collaborative way that benefits both the environment and local communities. It includes both single country and cross-site analyses, and focuses on themes, such as resettlement, land use planning, non-timber forest product use and management, the disconnect between customary and formal legal systems, and the role of larger scale policies in local level realities. Chapters also analyze experience with monitoring and a local governance assessment tool. The work also provides guidance for those interested in management and governance at lower and intermediate levels (village, district), scales likely to grow in importance in the global effort to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

In particular it:

• Provides a unique emphasis on complex, multi-functional landscape mosaics, with original research from Africa and Asia
• Integrates customary and formal approaches to governance of natural resources
• Shows how the competing claims of local livelihoods, deforestation and biodiversity conservation can be reconciled

'This book provides extremely valuable examples of the problems facing the governance of tropical forests. More importantly it details how these challenges might be resolved. It will help researchers, managers and policy-makers see beyond the rhetoric to concrete actions.'

Dr. John Innes, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia

ISBN: 9781849711777 | December 2010 | £60.00

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