Can We See the Forest for the Trees?: a Case Study of Marketing Non-timber Forest Products
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Over the past five decades, the importance of rain forests has reached beyond their boundaries to play a critical role in national and international trade, economic development, and politics. This increased dependency on rain forests by national governments has to led to extensive deforestation throughout the world. The destruction of rain forests has caused concern among forest dwellers, environmentalists, scientists, politicians, and international development specialists about the long-term implications of deforestation. As a result, development projects have been initiated to encourage the sustainable development of rain forests. Conservation International and Cultural Survival have initiated two such projects. The projects are based on the establishment of international markets for non-timber forest products harvested by forest dwellers. They are designed to stem rain forest destruction by increasing the economic strength of those most threatened--forest dwellers. To evaluate the projects, I compare them to a set of sustainable development principles. The analysis shows four issues to be critical to the development of a sustainable development model: 1) participation of forest dwellers; 2) environmental sustainability; 3) economic sustainability; and 4) project replicability. I conclude that, Conservation International and Cultural Survival offer an unique model of development, an "altruistic" sustainable development model. Thesis Supervisor: H. Patricia Hynes Title: Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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