Not by timber alone : economics and ecology for sustaining tropical forests /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Panaĭotov, Todor (autor)
Other Authors: Ashton, Peter S. (autor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1992
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview.
  • Tropical forest resources and the timber trade.
  • Natural forest management.
  • Undervaluation of tropical timber.
  • Non-timber forest products.
  • Environmental services.
  • The economics of multiple-use management.
  • silviculture and logging technology for multiple-use management.
  • Plantation forestry.
  • Conservation of genetic resources.
  • Institutional constraints and options: customary rights vs. state ownership.
  • Government policies.
  • International cooperation.
  • An agenda for the future