Community and Forestry: continuities in the sociology of natural resources

This book is about the relationship of human communities to forest environments. Resource management issues are human problems that can only be solved with social science knowledge in combination with knowledge from the other sciences. The utilization of these different types of knowledge within the resource management arena depends upon the establishment of a partnership between scientist and managers. Sound management requires agreement on what information is pertinent, how information should be collected, and how information should be employed in decision making. Many applied science volumes in sociology, anthropology, and political science deal with communities, but this volume is original in its exclusive attention to forest depend communities. Community and Forestry: continuities in the sociology of natural resources represents the beginning of a new branch of an old intellectual tradition in applied social science.