Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary material / M.A.F. Ros-Tonen -- Chapter One. Partnerships for sustainable forest and tree resource management in Latin America: The new road towards successful forest governance? / Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen , Heleen Van Den Hombergh and Annelies Zoomers -- Chapter Two. Alliances for sustainable forest management: Lessons from the ecuadorian Chocó rain forest / Laura Rival -- Chapter Three. Organising Partnerships for Ecuador’s emerging bamboo sector / Herwig M. Cleuren -- Chapter Four. Partnership on paper: Power struggles and strategic framing around industrial forestry in southern Costa Rica / Heleen Van Den Hombergh -- Chapter Five. Partnerships for sustainable timber production in Trinidad: Dealing with social and ecological dynamics / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- Chapter Six. Partnerships between forestry companies and local communities: Mechanisms for efficiency, equity, resilience and accountability / Sonja Vermeulen and James Mayers -- Chapter Seven. Do partnerships between large corporations and amazonian indigenous groups help or hinder communities and forests? / Carla Morsello and W. Neil Adger -- Chapter Eight. A company-community partnership for Fsc-Certified non-timber forest product harvesting in Brazilian Amazonia: Requirements for sustainable exploitation / Tinde Van Andel -- Chapter Nine. Sustainable forest management and the Guiana shield initiative / Pitou Van Dijck -- Chapter Ten. Impacts of multi-scale partnerships on Miskitu forest governance in Nicaragua / Mary M. Finley-Brook -- Chapter Eleven. Partnerships across scales: Lessons from extractive reserves in Brazilian Amazonia / Sergio Rosendo -- Chapter Twelve. Partnerships for ecological paper production in the state of Pará, Brazil / Kei Otsuki -- Chapter Thirteen. Negotiating solutions for local sustainable development and the prevention of deforestation in the brazilian Amazon / Imme Scholz -- Chapter Fourteen. Lessons from international community forestry networks / Marcus Colchester -- Index / M.A.F. Ros-Tonen.

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This book brings together experiences with a rich variety of sustainable forest and tree resource management partnerships in various countries in Latin America – Trinidad, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guyana, Brazil and Ecuador. The authors reflect on the scope, objectives, institutional organisation and benefits of partnerships, on the actors involved and excluded, and on the hindrances associated with overcoming cultural differences, institutional barriers, power imbalances and diverging interests. The question that runs as a common thread through this book is whether, and under what conditions, partnerships for sustainable forest and resource management can contribute to pro-poor, socially just and environmentally-friendly forest governance. By presenting the lessons learned from a wide range of partnerships, this book is a valuable resource for students, scholars and practitioners dealing with new governance forms in forest and natural resource management.