Arrangements for the governance and management of forests have been changing rapidly. This collection of papers on forests, development and livelihoods brings together the thinking on these issues, and gives students and practitioners of forestry and natural resource management a rapid overview of what is changing, how and why.

Challenging the Myths: What is Really Happening in the World's Forests * Part I: The Forest Resource * Forests and Development: Where Do We Stand * Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation * Who Owns the World's Forests? Forest Tenure and Public Forests in Transition * Part II: Forests and Livelihoods * Poverty Alleviation and Tropical Forests: What Scope for Synergies? * Can Non-timber Forest Products Match Tropical Forest * Conservation and Development Objectives? * What Future for the Peoples of the Tropical Forests? * Part III: Threats and Opportunities * Forest Law Enforcement and Rural Livelihoods * The Case for Bushmeat as a Component of Development Policy: Issues and Challenges * Reassessing the Fuelwood Situation in Developing Countries * Forest Fires: A Global Overview * Part IV: The Challenge of Sustainable Management * Public Policies to Reduce Inappropriate Tropical Deforestation * Technologies for Sustainable Forest Management: Challenges for the 21st Century * Sustainable Forestry in the Tropics: Panacea or Folly? * Forest Fragmentation and Biodiversity: The Case for Intermediate-Sized Conservation Areas * Harnessing Carbon Markets for Tropical Forest Conservation: Towards a More Realistic Assessment * Reinventing a Square Wheel: Critique of a Resurgent 'Protection Paradigm' in International Biodiversity Conservation * Part V: The Way Forward: Forestry for the Future * Ecology for Tropical Forest Management * From Meeting Needs to Honouring Rights: The Evolution of Community Forestry * A Strategic Approach to Multistakeholder Negotiations * Protect, Manage and Restore: Conserving Forests in Multifunctional Landscapes * Where Next? Adapting Forest Institutions to Meet New Challenge *