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Community and forestry: continuities in the sociology of natural resources
| Author: |
Lee, R.G.; Field, D.R.; Burch, W.R. |
| Date: |
1990 |
| Periodical: |
Boulder, CO: Westview Press |
| Abstract: |
This volume was assembled to address the need for a better understanding of recent changes in forest-based communities. Unprecedented patterns of growth and decline, together with the complexity of the social and economic processes causing these changes, require a broad description of communities and the changes affecting them. Traditional stereotypes of forestry and the human communities that depend on it will no longer suffice. The primary purpose of this volume is to represent a spectrum of changes affecting people in communities. We did not address policy alternatives for attempting to manage such changes. A subsequent volume will be devoted to policy issues and action strategies. Our present objective is limited to describing changes in communities and the economic activity upon which they have depended. We have given special attention to the need to define forestry and community, and to show how natural resources sociology can be used to study the linkage between forestry and community. |
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