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SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT 0 CASE STUDIES Edited by Jorge Martín-García and Julio Javier Diez ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ Sustainable Forest Management – Case Studies Edited by Jorge Martín-García and Julio Javier Diez Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Romina Skomersic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published April, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Sustainable Forest Management – Case Studies, Edited by Jorge Martín-García and Julio Javier Diez p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0511-4 ȱ ȱ ȱ Contents ȱ Preface IX Part 1 Africa 1 Chapter 1 Methodology for Forest Ecosystem Mediating Indicator – Case Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 3 John Eilif Hermansen Chapter 2 Obstacles to a Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Forest Management Under REDD in Central Africa: A Two-Country Analysis 27 Richard S. Mbatu Chapter 3 Collaborative Forest Management in Uganda: Benefits, Implementation Challenges and Future Directions 51 Nelson Turyahabwe, Jacob Godfrey Agea, Mnason Tweheyo and Susan Balaba Tumwebaze Part 2 America 75 Chapter 4 Sustainable Forest Management of Native Vegetation Remnants in Brazil 77 Lucas Rezende Gomide, Fausto Weimar Acerbi Junior, José Roberto Soares Scolforo, José Márcio de Mello, Antônio Donizette de Oliveira, Luis Marcelo Tavares de Carvalho, Natalino Calegário and Antônio Carlos Ferraz Filho Chapter 5 Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil: Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning 97 André Eduardo Biscaia de Lacerda, Maria Augusta Doetzer Rosot, Afonso Figueiredo Filho, Marilice Cordeiro Garrastazú, Evelyn Roberta Nimmo, Betina Kellermann, Maria Izabel Radomski, Thorsten Beimgraben, Patricia Povoa de Mattos and Yeda Maria Malheiros de Oliveira VI Contents Chapter 6 Sustainable Forest Management in a Disturbance Context: A Case Study of Canadian Sub-Boreal Forests 118 X. Wei and J. P. Kimmins Part 3 Asia 141 Chapter 7 Sustainability of an Urban Forest: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore 143 Kalyani Chatterjea Chapter 8 Recent Problems and New Directions for Forest Producer Cooperatives Established in Common Forests in Japan 161 Koji Matsushita Chapter 9 Conflict and Corollaries on Forest and Indigenous People: Experience from Bangladesh 183 Nur Muhammed, Mohitul Hossain, Sheeladitya Chakma, Farhad Hossain Masum, Roderich von Detten and Gerhard Oesten Chapter 10 Setting Up Locally Appropriate Ecological Criteria and Indicators to Evaluate Sustainable Forest Management in Dinh Hoa District (Northern Vietnam) 203 Anna Stier, Jutta Lax and Joachim Krug Part 4 Europe 219 Chapter 11 Sustainable Forest Management in Galicia (Spain): Lessons Learned 221 Edward Robak, Jacobo Aboal and Juan Picos Chapter 12 Can Forest Management in Protected Areas Produce New Risk Situations? 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