Across the tropics, high rates of forest degradation and deforestation have resulted not only in the loss of large areas of natural forest cover but also in increasing fragmentation of the forests that remain. This chapter examines the underlying governance drivers of forest fragmentation through...

The study of innovation with regard to territorial services is often complicated by the public or quasipublic good character of many territorial services connected to forestry. Although firm-level innovation can and does occur in relation to territorial goods and services, much innovation occurs...

This chapter focuses on the critical aspects of policy, institutional and ownership of planted forests. The different perspectives of private sector corporate and smallholder are highlighted from an investment perspective. An economic valuation of wood and other non-wood-based products is given....

Industrial forestry is a relatively new activity in British Columbia, having started approximately 125 years ago. The Fulton Commission (1909-10) was established as a result of growing public concern about the alienation of forest land from the Crown (government) and public fears over deforestation ...