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JK Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2010: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line

by Barbara Weltman

The tax facts and strategies that every small business owner needs to know

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this reliable resource offers a complete overview of small business tax planning and...


Coppicing and Coppice Crafts: A Comprehensive Guide

by Rebecca Oaks & Edward Mills

Coppicing is an ancient method of enhancing woodland biodiversity. The key to successful coppicing is to nurture the new coppice shoots. In return, a coppice will provide an endless supply of wood for a wide...


Lessons from Forest Decentralization: "Money, Justice and the Quest for Good Governance in Asia-Pacific"

by Carol Colfer Pierce J, Ganga Dahal Ram & Doris Capistrano

The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of...


Global Environmental Forest Policies: An International Comparison

by Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore & Peter Kanowski

Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and...


Woodland Management: A Pratical Guide

by Chris Starr

Woodland Management - A Practical Guide contains a wealth of information on all the key areas including: Management objectives; the factors influencing the choice of tree species and how to develop a management...


Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market: Opportunities Under REDD

by Margaret Skutsch

Recent developments in international policy on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries (REDD) open the way for crediting of carbon saved by rural communities through management of the forests...


The Decentralization of Forest Governance: Politics, Economics and the Fight for Control of Forests in Indonesian Borneo

by Eva Karoline Karoline Wollenberg

'This book provides an excellent overview of more than a decade of transformation in a forest landscape where the interests of local people, extractive industries and globally important biodiversity are in conflict....


Policy That Works for Forests and People: Real Prospects for Governance and Livelihoods

by Stephen Bass & James Mayers

Since its original publication by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1999, Policy That Works for Forests and People has been recognised as the most authoritative study to date of...


Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights

by Thomas Sikor & Johannes Stahl

A human rights-based agenda has received significant attention in writings on general development policy, but less so in forestry. Forests and People presents a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda...


Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming

by Professor Malcolm Cairns

This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the...


Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

by Laura Anne Anne German, Alain Karsenty & Anne Marie Marie Tiani

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest...


Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests

by J?rgen Bauhus, Peter Van der Van der Meer & Markku Kanninen

Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking...


The Dry Forests and Woodlands of Africa: Managing for Products and Services

by Emmanuel N. N. Chidumayo & Davison J. J. Gumbo

The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact. However, few people are aware of their importance,...


The Global Economics of Forestry

by William F. F. Hyde

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from...


Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies

by David Stuart Stuart Edmunds & Eva Karoline Karoline Wollenberg

'A well written book, astutely organized.' Development and Change Local Forest Management is built around careful and illuminating case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests...


Partnerships for Empowerment: Participatory Research for Community-based Natural Resource Management

by Carl Wilmsen

Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and it is often...


Forest Quality: Assessing Forests at a Landscape Scale

by William Jackson, Bill Jackson & Nigel Dudley

Deforestation is frequently a topic of discussion in the environmental arena, but it is not just the number of trees that matters; the quality of the forest is also important. Even where the forest area is stable...


Illegal Logging: "Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade"

by Luca Tacconi

'This book carefully blends conceptual insights with extensive empirical evidence to navigate the reader through an issue that is still poorly understood [and is] a valuable reference for the development practitioner...


Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance

by David Humphreys

Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2008 for the best book on international environmental problems. This pioneering study examines the impacts of neoliberal global...


The Forest Certification Handbook

by Ruth Nussbaum

First published in 1995, The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues....