Social forestry management : concept and practice / Max Follis Anderson.

Includes index.

Concepts and different practices of social forestry -- Situation of social forestry -- Sustainable forestry and ecosystem management -- Potential for forest plantations -- Deforestation crisis and social forestry -- Forest products and rural poverty -- Differences in the definition of forest classification -- Effects on household farm forestry management -- Community and urban forestry -- Sustainable forest management

“’Social forestry’ purely an Indian concept, has developed under Indian environment and culture. It has been adopted and modified differently by different states. India, second in population in the world, needs social forestry programmes because increasing population forces the forest land to be used for agriculture, industries, housing and urban development. Social forestry also aims at raising plantations by the common man so as to meet the growing demand for timber, fuel wood, fodder, etc., thereby reducing the pressure on the traditional forest area. This concept of village forests to meet the needs of the rural people is not new. It has existed through the centuries all over the country but it was now given a new character. Social forestry programme will ensure involvement of the people and public co-operation in the management and re-generation of forest wealth. Shifting cultivation which is the main hindrance to the development of forests can also be reduced by social forestry programme. The contents in the book covered wide array of subjects, which traced the history of forestry in India and their role coupled with recent plantation activities.”--Book cover

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