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Uncovering the hidden harvest : valuation methods for woodland and forest resources / edited by Bruce M. Campbell and Martin K. Luckert.
LIBRA SD393 .U48 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- People and plants conservation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forests and forestry--Economic aspects.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forest products--Economic aspects.
- Forest products.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, [2002]
- Summary:
- Forests and woodlands provide an enormous range of goods and services to society, from timber and firewood to medicinal plants, watershed protection, destinations for tourists and sacred sites. Only when these are understood and valued can forests and their resources be properly managed and conserved. This work shows how the complicated network of benefits can be untangled and sets out the different approaches needed to value them. It covers the analysis of plant-based markets, non-market valuation and decision frameworks such as cost-benefit analysis.
- Contents:
- The People and Plants Initiative / Alan Hamilton xiv
- People and Plants partners xv
- 1 Towards understanding the role of forests in rural livelihoods / Bruce M Campbell, Martin K Luckert 1
- Introduction: the partially hidden harvest 1
- Characteristics of rural households and woodland products 7
- Linking to broader issues 8
- Purpose and scope of the book 11
- Importance of remaining observant and critical 12
- 2 Quantitative methods for estimating the economic value of resource use to rural households / William Cavendish 17
- What this chapter covers 19
- Data collection, recall, cross-checking and the unit of analysis 20
- A taxonomy of environmental resource use 29
- Constructing environmentally augmented household income data 34
- Valuing environmental goods 41
- How should labour be handled? 52
- Comparing incomes across households 55
- 3 Understanding local and regional markets for forest products / Michele Veeman 66
- Some basic concepts of resource markets 69
- Some features of rural markets 90
- Analysing markets: marketing efficiency and performance measures 92
- 4 An introduction to approaches and issues for measuring non-market values in developing economies / Peter C Boxall, Tom Beckley 103
- Values and measures of welfare 108
- Stated preference methods: contingent valuation 110
- Revealed preference methods 125
- 5 Economic decision-making frameworks for considering resource values: procedures, perils and promise / Terrence S Veeman, Martin K Luckert 141
- Three frameworks for considering benefits and costs 141
- The background essentials of using benefit and cost information 153
- Cautions in using benefit and cost information 165
- 6 Participatory methods for exploring livelihood values derived from forests: potential and limitations / Nontokozo Nemarundwe, Michael Richards 168
- What is participation? 169
- The background, history and principles of PRA 171
- PRA tools and techniques for quantifying and valuing forest benefits 175
- Strengths and weaknesses of PRA for understanding forest values 186
- The way forward 196
- 7 Searching for synthesis: integrating economic perspectives with those from other disciplines / Beu Sithole, Peter Frost, Terrence S Veeman 198
- The need for disciplinary integration 198
- Multidisciplinarity or interdisciplinarity? 202
- Incorporating stakeholders in the research agenda 205
- Some concepts that promote interdisciplinarity 206
- Approaches and methods to foster interdisciplinarity 216
- Constraints to interdisciplinarity 226
- 8 Expanding our conceptual and methodological understanding of the role of trees and forests in rural livelihoods / Martin K Luckert, Bruce M Campbell 228
- Models of behaviour 230
- Trying to address the whole system 234
- Facilitating development beyond the 'Field of Dreams' 237.
- Notes:
- "WWF, UNESCO, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1853838098
- OCLC:
- 46812005
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