Publication: Managing for timber and biodiversity in the Congo Basin
Managing for timber and biodiversity in the Congo Basin
| dc.contributor.author | Nasi, R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Billand, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vliet, N. van | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-23T18:57:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-23T18:57:58Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/1007 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.rights | Paywalled content | |
| dc.title | Managing for timber and biodiversity in the Congo Basin | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Multiple-use forest management is considered by many as a preferable alternative to single-use, generally timber-dominant, management models. In the Congo Basin rainforests, integration of timber and non-timber forest resources plays a key role in the subsistence and market economies of rural communities. This is however mainly occurring in �ordinary� forest lands and not in formally gazetted forest lands. In this paper we briefly explore the major land-uses in the Congo Basin and their actual or potential for multiple-use. We then focus on the most extant production system (industrial logging concessions) and analyze the existing issues and options for managing actively both timber and biodiversity with a special emphasis on wildlife and the role of certification. A few promising but yet �unfinished� examples do exist in the region and we review these cases to draw lessons and recommendations. We contend however that true multiple-use could only be realized by expanding beyond boundaries of formal management units through new innovative land-use units, allowing a spatial cohabitation of the interests of local people, of conservation proponents and of extractive industries in the same management unit. | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2012 | |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| fsc.evidenceCategory | FSC relevant studies | |
| fsc.focus.forestType | Natural Forest | |
| fsc.focus.forestZone | Tropical | |
| fsc.focus.sustainDimension | (not yet curated) | |
| fsc.focus.tenureManagement | (not yet curated) | |
| fsc.focus.tenureOwnership | (not yet curated) | |
| fsc.issue.environmental | (not yet curated) | |
| fsc.topic.environmental | (not yet curated) | |
| fscdoc.hashidden.admin | yes | |
| fscdoc.hashidden.user | yes | |
| is.coverage.country | Cameroon | |
| is.coverage.country | Central African Republic | |
| is.coverage.country | Congo | |
| is.coverage.country | Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| is.coverage.country | Gabon | |
| is.coverage.region | Africa | |
| is.evaluation.collection | (not yet curated) | |
| is.evidenceSubType | Literature review | |
| is.evidenceType | Synthesis paper | |
| is.extent.pages | 103-111 | |
| is.extent.volume | 268 | |
| is.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.04.005 | |
| is.identifier.fscdoi | http://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international442 |