Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management: Learning from Latin America

Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen is a Human Geographer with a Ph.D. degree in policy sciences. She is affiliated to the Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam as senior researcher and coordinator of the (Netherlands) Development Policy Review Network (DPRN). Recent publications include African Forests between Nature and Livelihood Resource(with Ton Dietz), published by The Edwin Mellen Press (2005), and ‘The Scope for Improving Rural Livelihoods through Non-Timber Forest Products: An Evolving Research Agenda' (with Freerk Wiersum), published in Forests, Trees and Livelihoods (2005). Mirjam Ros-Tonen is currently engaged in research into forest use and governance in the Brazilian Amazon.

"This is the best work on recent policy debates over sustainable development, conservation, and livelihood in the forest I have read in years. It offers a lucid and unblinking exploration of 'partnership' as a means to reconcile seemly unbridgeable conflicts between states, business interests, forest dwellers, and biodiversity conservation in the interest of sustainable, equitable, and ecologically sound practices in forest land use." – Eduardo Silva, University of Missouri-St. Louis"This is an excellent volume which brings a large range of new case study material from Latin America onto the international stage. It is a significant contribution to the growing debate on cross-sector partnerships in natural resource management and will be of interest to academics, policymakers and practitioners alike for the sensible, cautionary lessons yielded." – Anthony Hall, London School of Economics

• List of FiguresList of Tables List of AcronymsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I – Exploring Potentials and Opportunities1. Partnerships for Sustainable Forest and Tree Resource Management in Latin America: The New Road towards Successful Forest Governance?, Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen, Heleen van den Hombergh and Annelies Zoomers2. Alliances for Sustainable Forest Management: Lessons from the Ecuadorian Chocó Rain Forest, Laura Rival3. Organising Partnerships for Ecuador’s Emerging Bamboo Sector, Herwig M. CleurenPart II – Framing around Public-Private Partnerships4. Partnership on Paper: Power Struggles and Strategic Framing around Industrial Forestry in Southern Costa Rica, Heleen van den Hombergh5. Partnerships for Sustainable Timber Production in Trinidad: Dealing with Social and Ecological Dynamics, James Fairhead and Melissa LeachPart III – Company-Community Partnerships6. Partnerships between Forestry Companies and Local Communities: Mechanisms for Efficiency, Equity, Resilience and Accountability, Sonja Vermeulen and James Mayers7. Do Partnerships between Large Corporations and Amazonian Indigenous Groups Help or Hinder Communities and Forests?, Carla Morsello and W. Neil Adger8. A Company-Community Partnership for FSC-Certified Non-Timber Forest Product Harvesting in Brazilian Amazonia: Requirements for Sustainable Exploitation, Tinde van AndelPart IV – Multi or Intersector Partnerships9. Sustainable Forest Management and the Guiana Shield Initiative, Pitou van Dijck10. Impacts of Multi-Scale Partnerships on Miskitu Forest Governance in Nicaragua, Mary M. Brook11. Partnerships across Scales: Lessons from Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia, Sergio Rosendo12. Partnerships for Ecological Paper Production in the State of Pará, Brazil, Key OtsukiPart V – Political Partnerships13. Negotiating Solutions for Local Sustainable Development and the Prevention of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Imme Scholz14. Lessons from International Community Forestry Networks, Marcus ColchesterIndex