Ellen M. Donoghue is a social scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Her research focuses on the institutional dimensions of community and resource management agency interactions. Victoria E. Sturtevant is professor of sociology in the Department of Environmental Studies at Southern Oregon University. Her research has focused on forest communities in transition; collaborative stewardship, monitoring, and planning; and the social dimensions of wildfire.
Preface
Introduction
1. Community and Forest Connections: Continuity and Change
Part I: Understanding Forest Communities
2. Social Assessment of Forest Communities: For Whom and for What?
3.Socioeconomic Monitoring and Forest Management
4. Engaging Communities Through Participatory Research
Part II: Communities in the Context of Emerging and Persistent Forest
Management Issues
5. Evolving Interdependencies of Community and Forest Health
6. Communities and Wildfire Policy
7. Amenity Migration, Rural Communities, and Public Lands
8. Integrating Commercial Nontimber Forest Product Harvesters into Forest
Management
9. Job Quality for Forest Workers
Part III: Communities and Forest Governance
10. Institutional Arrangements in Community-based Forestry
11. Family Forest Owners
12. Creating Community Forests
13. Collaborative Forest Management
14. Taking Stock of Community and Forest Connections
Index
