The New Forester
Berry van Gelder, Phil O'Keefe
Traditionally, subsistence economies in developing countries are biomass economies. Housing itself, energy, furniture and utensils are still biomass products. The yield of trees and shrubs provides thatch, fodder and a host of other products which serve each family household. Deforestation is an erosion of local entitlement to subsistence resources as well as being an environmental problem that destroys local, national and global common property resources. The challenge for foresters, and other rural development professionals, is to build new landscapes which provide a range of biomass products to local users. This book will contribute to that task by helping professionals to see new opportunities by working through, not against, the local people. This book is aimed at foresters, but its practical approach is worth the attention of all rural development practitioners, as well as individuals within a range of professional backgrounds from engineering to sociology.
Published: 1995
Pages: 96
eBook: 9781780444185
Paperback: 9781853392320
| List of boxes iv | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Foreword v | |||
| Preface vi | |||
| 1. Setting the Scene 1 | |||
| The challenge of wood: the biomass economy 1 | |||
| From plantation to fields: location of the problem 2 | |||
| From fuelwood to trees: redefining intervention 8 | |||
| Social forestry 12 | |||
| 2. Tools for Work — Indigenous Knowledge 14 | |||
| Asking questions with people 14 | |||
| Exploring what people know 15 | |||
| Exploring how people are 18 | |||
| 3. The Classical and the Social Forester 23 | |||
| New and old knowledge: traditional versus modern approaches 23 | |||
| The changing role of the forester in forestry 24 | |||
| 4. The Way Forward 31 | |||
| Understanding existing management: the least cost solution 31 | |||
| Traditional versus farm nurseries 42 | |||
| Seedlings or seed? — simplifying tree establishment 45 | |||
| Technical issues: the question of species 45 | |||
| Agroforestry production systems 54 | |||
| 5. The Practicalities of Intervention 60 | |||
| The new forester in action 60 | |||
| A model for participatory development: thinking through the process 61 | |||
| Steps for a participatory process 66 | |||
| Wood beyond forestry: wood in rural development projects 74 | |||
| 6. A New Approach to Training 82 | |||
| New modalities: starting points 82 | |||
| Practical issues 86 | |||
| 7. Conclusion 90 | |||
| And Now? |
Berry van Gelder
Berry van Gelder has over 30 years' of experience in forestry and the wood industry. He graduated form the University of Wageningen and worked for many years in Africa and Asia through international aid agencies like the FAO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and other Dutch Development organisations and companies
Phil O'Keefe
Phil O' Keefe teaches economic development and environmental management at the University of Northumbria. He is also the director of ETC UK.
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