European Tropical Forest Research Network

A publication based on the workshop Learning from Resource Users - a Paradigm Shift in Tropical Forestry?
April 28-29, 2000, Vienna, Austria, Organised by the Austrian National Focal Point of ETFRN

ETFRN Series No. 1: Forestry, forest users and research: new ways of learning, edited by Anna Lawrence, can be downloaded as a whole as PDF file (2.6 Mb!), or chapter by chapter, see below.

CONTENTS

Contents and Introduction: Forestry, forest users and research: new ways of learning (185 kb)
ANNA LAWRENCE

SECTION 1: OVERVIEWS
1 Incorporating indigenous knowledge in formal forest management: adaptation or paradigm change in tropical forestry? (186 kb)
K.F. WIERSUM
2 Indigenous forestry: how to turn localised knowledge into a relevant forestry science (140 kb)
GENEVIEVE MICHON
3 Taking local knowledge about trees seriously (168 kb)
FERGUS L. SINCLAIR AND LAXMAN JOSHI
4 Research and participatory forest management: comparing the priorities of resource users and development professionals (155 kb)
ANNA LAWRENCE AND KATE GREEN

SECTION 2: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
5 Associating people and industrial forestry: joint forest management in Lao P.D.R (289 kb)
BÉRÉNICE MURAILLE
6 A case study in the woodcutting industry of two communities around Jozani Conservation Area, Zanzibar (410 kb)
A.U. BASHA, AMOUR B. OMAR, ADRIAN ELY, SAID A. FAKIH AND ROB WILD
7 Learning by doing: participatory research with forest user groups in Nepal (333 kb)
P. BRANNEY, Y.B. MALLA, AND H.R. NEUPANE
8 Learning to learn: working with local people to develop timber and non-timber forest products in Nepal (379 kb)
S.P. DAHAL, H. GIBBON, G. KAFLE AND R. SUBEDI
9 Learning to respect: co-operation with resource users (171 kb)
GUDRUN LETTMAYER
10 A model for integrating indigenous and scientific forest management: potentials and limitations for adaptive learning (127 kb)
REKHA SINGHAL

SECTION 3: ACADEMIC RESEARCH
11 The production of sawn hardwood and regulation of timber extraction from natural forests in Tanzania (266 kb)
DAVID WALL AND JILL WELLS
12 Local ways of life and timber management (137 kb)
SØREN GRAM
13 Indigenous knowledge and the use of fallow forests in Northern Thailand (441 kb)
DIETRICH SCHMIDT-VOGT

SECTION 4: DISCUSSION
Workshop discussion and recommendations (132 kb)
Biographies and Appendix I, II, III (316 kb)