Forest and Nature Governance

• Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Prelude to practice: Introducing a practice based approach to forest and nature governance.- 2. From practical science to a practice based approach: A short history of forest policy studies.- Rethinking institutions.- 3. Bricolage practices in local forestry.- 4. What institutions do: Grasping participatory practices in the Water Framework Directive.- 5. Invited spaces and informal practices in participatory community forest management in India.- The global-local nexus.- 6. Global forest governance: Multiple practices of policy performance.- 7. The practice of interaction management: enhancing synergies among multilateral REDD+ institutions.- 8. How do forest markets work? Exploring a practice perspective.- Representing nature? 9. Globalising biodiversity: Scientific practices of scaling and databasing.- 10. Where management practices and experiential practices meet: Public support and conflict in ecosystem management.- 11. Creating scientific narratives: experiences in constructing and interweaving empirical and theoretical plots.- Conclusion.- 12. The promise of practice: The value of the practice-based approach for forest and nature governance studies.

From the reviews: "The goal of this book is to convince academic researchers that governance is best studied through practice-based research. ... The individual chapters, which cover a wide range of topics, could be read separately by individuals more interested in the particular case studies than in the theory behind the practice-based approach. ... The strongest case presented for this approach might be the blend of theory and description in each chapter. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (B. D. Orr, Choice, Vol. 50 (10), June, 2013)