Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 REGIONAL PORTRAITS -- 1. Roots of Community Forestry: Subsistence and Regional Development in Newfoundland / Sara Carson -- 2. Community Forestry in the Maritimes: Long-Standing Debates and Recent Developments / Thomas Beckley -- 3. Community Forestry in Quebec: A Search for Alternative Forest Governance Models / Sara Teitelbaum -- 4. Community Forestry on Crown Land in Northern Ontario: Emerging Paradigm or Localized Anomaly? / Chander Shahi -- 5. Forests and Communities on the Fringe: An Overview of Community Forestry in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba / Maureen G. Reed -- 6. Community Forestry in British Columbia: From a Movement to an Institution / Lisa Ambus -- pt. 2 CASE STUDIES: CONNECTING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE -- 7. Community Forestry in an Age of Crisis: Structural Change, the Mountain Pine Beetle, and the Evolution of the Burns Lake Community Forest / Michelle Rhodes -- 8. Searching for Common Ground: An Urban Forest Initiative in Northwestern Ontario / Teika Newton -- 9. Community Forestry and Local Development at the Periphery: Four Cases from Western Quebec / Guy Chiasson -- 10. Striking the Balance: Source Water Protection and Organizational Resilience in BC's Community Forests / Evelyn Pinkerton -- 11. Practicing Participatory Governance through Community Forestry: A Qualitative Analysis of Four Canadian Case Studies / Sara Teitelbaum -- pt. 3 COMMUNITY FORESTRY: LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE -- 12. Stronger Rights, Novel Outcomes: Why Community Forests Need More Control over Forest Management / Erik Leslie -- 13. Whither Community Forests in Canada? Scenarios of Forest Governance, Adaptive Policy Development, and the Example of Nova Scotia / L. Kris MacLellan -- 14. Towards an Integrated System of Communities and Forests in Canada / Maureen G. Reed.

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