Forests and People

Thomas Sikor has conducted research on forest tenure and politics over the past two decades, including fieldwork in Vietnam, Albania, and Romania. He holds a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley and currently is Reader in International Development at the University of East Anglia. Sikor has guest-edited a number of special journal issues and books on topics ranging from community and land reform to property theory. In his activist work, he promotes the expansion of economic, political and cultural rights to disadvantaged people in Vietnam. Johannes Stahl works on natural resource governance and institutions in agriculture and forestry. He holds PhD and MA degrees in Agriculture and Social Anthropology and was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California at Berkeley from 2007 to 2009. Stahl's research has examined forest use practices and institutions in Bolivia and Albania. He lives and works in Montreal, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: The Rights-Based Agenda in International Forestry Part 1: Global Perspectives 2. The Global Forest Tenure Transition: Background, Substance, and Prospects 3. Indigenous Peoples' Rights and the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System 4. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Conservation Promise, Progress... and Pitfalls? Part 2: What Claims Find Support? 5. Affirmative Policy on an Uneven Playing Field: Implications for REDD 6. Advancing Human Rights Through Community Forestry in Nepal 7. Forest Devolution and Social Differentiation in Vietnam Part 3: Whose Claims Are Considered to Constitute Rights? 8. The Challenges of Developing a Rights-based Approach to Conservation in Indonesia 9. Rights Evolution and Contemporary Forest Activism in the New Forest, England 10. Advocating for Traditional Native American Gathering Rights on US Forest Service Lands Part 4: What Authorities Recognize Forest People's Rights? 11. Who Represents the Collective? Authority and the Recognition of Forest Rights 12. Tenure Rights, Environmental Interests, and the Politics of Local Government in Romania Part 5: What Political Strategies Serve Rights Recognition by the State? 13. Women's Action and Democratic Spaces Across Scales in India 14. Building Coalitions Across Sectors and Scales in Cambodia 15. Forest Based Social Movements in Latin America 16. A Way forward: Forest Rights in Times of REDD+. Index

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