Not by Timber Alone: Economics And Ecology For Sustaining Tropical Forests
by Peter Ashton and Theodore Panayotou
Island Press, 1992 Paper: 978-1-55963-196-9 | eISBN: 978-1-61091-292-1 | Cloth: 978-1-55963-195-2 Library of Congress Classification SD247.P68 1992 Dewey Decimal Classification 333.750913
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Not by Timber Alone presents the findings of the Harvard Institute for International Development study, commissioned by the International Tropical Timber Organization, that examined the economic value of tropical hardwood forests as productive living systems and the potential for their multiple use management.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Theodore Panayotou is a fellow of the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Center for Tropical Forest Science. A specialist in environmental and resource economics, environmental policy analysis, and development economics, Dr. Panayotou has advised governments and institutes in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe as well as numerous other national and international institutions, on the interactions between the natural resource base and economic development. He received the 1991 Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for Conservation Biology for his wide-ranging efforts to use economic analysis as a tool for conservation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About International Tropical Timber Organization
List of Tables
Table of Figures
Foreword \ B. C. Y. Freezailah
Foreword \ Dwight H. Perkins
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2. Tropical Forest Resources and the Timber Trade
Chapter 3. Natural Forest Management
Chapter 4. Undervaluation of Tropical Timber
Chapter 5. Non-timber Forest Products: A Major Component of Total Forest Value
Chapter 6. Environmental Services: Another Major Component of Forest Value
Chapter 7. The Economics of Multiple-Use Management
Chapter 8. Sylviculture and Logging Technology for Multiple-Use Management
Chapter 9. Plantation Forestry
Chapter 10. Conservation of Genetic Resources
Chapter 11. Institutional Constraints and Options: Customary Rights vs. State Ownership
Chapter 12. Government Policies
Chapter 13. International Cooperation
Chapter 14. An Agenda for the Future
Bibliography
Index
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Not by Timber Alone: Economics And Ecology For Sustaining Tropical Forests
by Peter Ashton and Theodore Panayotou
Island Press, 1992 Paper: 978-1-55963-196-9 eISBN: 978-1-61091-292-1 Cloth: 978-1-55963-195-2
Not by Timber Alone presents the findings of the Harvard Institute for International Development study, commissioned by the International Tropical Timber Organization, that examined the economic value of tropical hardwood forests as productive living systems and the potential for their multiple use management.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Theodore Panayotou is a fellow of the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Center for Tropical Forest Science. A specialist in environmental and resource economics, environmental policy analysis, and development economics, Dr. Panayotou has advised governments and institutes in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe as well as numerous other national and international institutions, on the interactions between the natural resource base and economic development. He received the 1991 Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for Conservation Biology for his wide-ranging efforts to use economic analysis as a tool for conservation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About International Tropical Timber Organization
List of Tables
Table of Figures
Foreword \ B. C. Y. Freezailah
Foreword \ Dwight H. Perkins
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2. Tropical Forest Resources and the Timber Trade
Chapter 3. Natural Forest Management
Chapter 4. Undervaluation of Tropical Timber
Chapter 5. Non-timber Forest Products: A Major Component of Total Forest Value
Chapter 6. Environmental Services: Another Major Component of Forest Value
Chapter 7. The Economics of Multiple-Use Management
Chapter 8. Sylviculture and Logging Technology for Multiple-Use Management
Chapter 9. Plantation Forestry
Chapter 10. Conservation of Genetic Resources
Chapter 11. Institutional Constraints and Options: Customary Rights vs. State Ownership
Chapter 12. Government Policies
Chapter 13. International Cooperation
Chapter 14. An Agenda for the Future
Bibliography
Index
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