Panwar / Kozak / Hansen Forests, Business and Sustainability

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-67526-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: The Earthscan Forest Library

Forests are under tremendous pressure from human use of all kinds, but a significant threat to their sustainability comes from commercial interests. This book presents a comprehensive examination of the interaction between commercial interests and sustainability within the forestry domain.

It captures, both philosophically and practically, the genesis of sustainability concerns in the forest sector and various sustainability-oriented initiatives that occur within it. Experts from around the world provide analysis from a variety of standpoints including ethics and business management, and consider topics such as global forest ownership patterns, consumption and commercialization of forest resources, corporate responsibility, governance and policy and the contributions of small enterprises and local communities.

The book paves a way forward by critically examining the efficacy of existing dominant business models in addressing sustainability issues and proposing alternatives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panwar, Rajat

Kozak, Robert

Hansen, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstwirtschaft, Forstwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Many Paths to Sustainability, but Where Are We Going?

Rajat Panwar, Eric Hansen and Robert Kozak

2. The Spectrum of Forest Usage: From Livelihood Support to Large-scale Commercialization

Kathryn Fernholz and Jim Bowyer

3. The Regulatory and Policy Interventions for Achieving Sustainability

Constance L. McDermott

4. Achieving Sustainability through Market Mechanisms

Benjamin Cashore, Chris Elliott, Erica Pohnan, Michael Stone and Sébastien Jodoin

5. On Corporate Responsibility

Anne Toppinen, Katja Lähtinen and Jani Holopainen

6. Opportunities and Challenges in Community Forest Tenure Reform

Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque, Jenny Springer, Andy White and D. Bryson Ogden

7. Enabling Investment for Locally Controlled Forestry

Duncan Macqueen and Peter deMarsh

8. Decentralization and Community-based Approaches

Reem Hajjar and Augusta Molnar

9. Promises and Perils of Plantation Forestry

Jacki Schirmer, Romain Pirard and Peter Kanowski

10. The Emerging Bio-economy and the Forest Sector

Anders Roos and Matti Stendahl

Über Autor(innen)

Rajat Panwar is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Forest Resource Management and Wood Science in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is also Editor of the Journal of Forest Products Business Research.

Robert Kozak is Professor and Head of the Department of Wood Science in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Eric Hansen is Professor of Forest Products Marketing at the Department of Wood Science and Engineering in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, USA.