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WORLDWIDE BIODIVERSITY/FOREST CAMPAIGN NEWS
Forestry in the Americas:
Community-Based Management & Sustainability
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Forest Networking a Project of Ecological Enterprises
At the request of the organizer, we are passing this along.
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SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT
FORESTRY IN THE AMERICAS: COMMUNITY-BASED MANAGEMENT AND
SUSTAINABILITY
FEBRUARY 3-4, 1995
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AUDITORIUM
Coordinated by the Institute for Environmental Studies, the Land
Tenure Center, and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program,
in collaboration with Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA.
Funded by the Ford Foundation and the University of Wisconsin
Anonymous and Nave Funds.
- Is community-based forestry a viable approach to sustainable
development?
- How successfully do community forestry enterprises integrate
with indigenous cultures?
- Is community-based forestry an effective tool for conserving
forest ecosystems and their resources?
This working symposium will bring together academic and
practitioner experts to analyze community-based forestry
enterprises in the upper Amazon, Mexico, and the U.S. The
analysis will focus on four themes and seven case studies
(listed below) initially discussed at a November 1994 workshop.
Symposium participants will examine problem areas which affect
community forestry's social, economic and ecological viability and
investigate how constraints can best be overcome. They will also
analyze the central paradigm which currently guides community
forestry in order to develop a more appropriate basis for policy
and project design.
The symposium is a collaborative effort of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Cultural Survival, Inc., Oxfam America (Lima,
Peru), the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples Organizations
for the Amazon Basin (Coordinadora de las Organizaciones
IndI'genas de la Cuenca AmazonI'a, COICA, Quito, Ecuador), and the
Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of
Mexico (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, IIS/UNAM). The
symposium extends recent research coordinated by Oxfam/COICA and
IIS/UNAM.
REDEFINING THE PARADIGM FOR COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT
Three general hypotheses currently guide policy and planning in
community forestry.
(1) Increasing the economic worth of forest resources increases
the extent to which people conserve forests.
(2) A high level of tenure security increases resource
conservation.
(3) The culture and values of indigenous peoples promote forest
use which maintains natural ecosystems.
Experience suggests we have been too optimistic in assuming these
relationships will work almost automatically. Symposium
participants will reexamine the guiding hypotheses and their
linkages in the light of case studies to construct a stronger base
on which to design, implement and operate community forestry
projects.
MANEJO FORESTAL COMUNITARIO EN LAS AMERICAS Y SU SUSTENTABILIDAD
- Puede el manejo forestal comunitario promover el desarrollo
sustentable?
- Con que' exito se integran las empresas forestales comunitarias
con culturas indi'genas?
- Es el manejo forestal comunitario un mecanismo efectivo para
conservar ecosistemas forestales y sus recursos?
La conferencia juntara' expertos profesionales y acade'micos para
analizar el manejo forestal comunitario en la cuenca alta de la
Amazoni'a, Me'xico, y los Estados Unidos. El ana'lisis enfocara'
en cinco temas y en siete estudios de casos (enumerados abajo)
examinados primeramente en un taller que tuvo lugar en noviembre
de 1994. Los participantes examinara'n a'reas problema'ticas que
afectan la viabilidad social, econo'mica, y poli'tica del manejo
forestal comunitario, y investigara'n como se puede mejor superar
los impedimentos.
Adema's, los participantes analizara'n los principios vigentes que
gui'an el trabajo forestal comunitario para desarrollar una base
ma's apto para la poli'tica forestal y la planificacio'n de
proyectos forestales.
La conferencia es un esfuerzo colaborativo de la Universidad de
Wisconsin, Cultural Survival, Inc., Oxfam America (Lima, Peru'),
la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indi'genas de la Cuenca
Amazoni'a, COICA (Quito, Ecuador), y el Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad National Auto'noma
de Me'xico (IIS/UNAM). La conferencia extiende estudios recientes
coordinado por Oxfam/COICA y IIS/UNAM.
MODIFICACION DE LOS PRINCIPIOS VIGENTES GUIANDO EL MANEJO FORESTAL
COMUNITARIO
Tres principios actualmente gui'an la poli'tica y planificacio'n
del trabajo forestal comunitario.
(1) Un incremento en el valor econo'mico de los recursos
forestales aumenta el esfuerzo por parte de la gente para
conservar los bosques.
(2) Un alto nivel de seguridad en la tenencia de los recursos
aumenta la conservacio'n de los mismos.
(3) La cultura y los valores de la gente indi'gena promueven el
uso de los recursos forestales de manera que se mantienen los
ecosistemas naturales.
Experiencia sugiere un optimismo excesivo en asumir que estas
interacciones funcionara'n casi automaticamente. Los
participantes de la conferencia reexaminara'n los principios
vigentes y su articulacio'n por medio de estudios de caso para
formular una base ma's fuerte para planificar, implementar and
manejar el trabajo forestal comunitario.
THEMES - TEMAS
1. Conservation of ecological processes and biodiversity in
production forests
Conservacio'n de procesos ecolo'gicos y biodiversidad en
bosques usados para el aprovechamiento de productos forestales
- Timothy C. Moermond, Zoologist and Chair of Conservation and
Sustainable Development Program, UW-Madison
- Douglas Mason, Ph.D. candidate in Zoology, UW-Madison
2. Tenure systems for natural resources and their role in
conservation
Sistemas de tenencia para recursos naturales y su papel en la
conservacio'n
- Theodore Macdonald, Anthropologist, Cultural Survival, Inc.
- Nancy Forster, Development Anthropologist, Latin American
and Iberian Studies Program, UW-Madison
- Alberto Vargas, Ph.D. candidate in Forestry and Land
Resources, UW-Madison
3. Integration of market-oriented production forestry with
indigenous cultural, economic, and political structures
Integracio'n de produccio'n forestal comercial con estructuras
culturales, econo'micas y poli'ticas de comunidades indi'genas
- Richard Chase Smith, Anthropologist, Oxfam America
4. Survival of community forestry enterprises in neoliberal
economic systems
Sobrevivencia de empresas forestales comunitarias en sistemas
econo'micas neoliberales
- E. Miguel Szekely, Rural Sociologist, IIS/UNAM
CASES - CASOS
1. Menominee Tribal Enterprises, Wisconsin, USA
- Marshall Pecore, Forester, Menominee Tribal Enterprises
- Paula Rogers Huff, Wildlife Ecologist, College of the
Menominee Nation
2. New San Juan Parangaritcutiro, Michoaca'n, Mexico
- Mari'a Ange'lica Sanchez Pego, Rural Sociologist, IIS/UNAM
- Carlos Solano, Agronomist, IIS/UNAM
3. Oaxaca Forestry Communities, Mexico
- Francisco Abardi'a, Economist, IIS/UNAM
4. Quintana Roo Forestry Communities, Mexico
- Miguel Lanz, IIS/UNAM
- Alfonso Arguelles, Plan Piloto Forestal
5. Lomerio Forestry Project, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Amado Olivera, Forester, APCOB
6. Multiethnic Indigenous Territory, Chimanes Forest, Beni,
Bolivia
- Zulema Lehm, Anthropologist, CIDDEBENI
7. Yanesha Forestry Cooperative, Palcazu Valley, Peru
- Margarita Benavides, Anthropologist, Oxfam America
- Mario Pariona, Forester, Oxfam America
REGISTRATION FORM
Name ___________________________________________________
Affiliation _______________________________________________
Mailing Address __________________________________________
City ____________________ State______ Zip__________________
Telephone(s)_____________________________________________
email address ____________________________________________
FEES: To guarantee your participation, please ensure that your
completed registration arrives at the address below by Jan. 25,
1995. The fee covers all registration materials and the symposium
papers. Day passes without symposium materials are available free
of charge at the symposium. In addition, an optional buffet
reception and dinner are scheduled Friday and Saturday nights,
respectively.
___ General Registration Fee, $25.00 $___________
___ Student Registration Fee, $10.00 $___________
___ Buffet Reception, Friday Evening, $12.00
(cash bar separate) $___________
___ Dinner, Saturday Evening, $15.00
(cash bar separate) $___________
___ Day passes (without symposium materials)
TOTAL ENCLOSED $___________
Make your check, payable in U.S. currency, to the UNIVERSITY OF
WISCONSIN - MADISON. Please mail the check with the completed
registration form (both sides) to:
Community Forestry Symposium
Institute for Environmental Studies
Room 1007 WARF Office Bldg.
Madison, WI 53705, USA
Fax: (608) 262-0014
For more information, contact:
Doug Mason or Gigi Trebatoski
Institute for Environmental Studies
tel (608) 265-5296
fax (608) 262-0014
email: forests@macc.wisc.edu
CONFERENCE MATERIALS REQUESTED
CASE STUDIES (order English or Spanish versions)
Menominee Tribal Enterprises, Wisconsin, USA ___ English ___
Spanish
New San Juan Parangaritcutiro, Mexico ___ English ___
Spanish
Oaxaca Forestry Communities, Mexico ___
Spanish
Quintana Roo Forestry Communities, Mexico ___
Spanish
Lomerio Forestry Project, Santa Cruz, Bolivia ___ English ___
Spanish
Multiethnic Indigenous Territory,
Chimanes Forest, Beni, Bolivia ___ English ___
Spanish
Yanesha Forestry Cooperative, Peru ___ English ___
Spanish
THEME PAPERS (single language only)
___ Can We Have the Forest and Eat it Too: Maintaining the
Ecological Basis for Forestry.
___ The Delicate Balance: Tenure Rights and Responsibilities
in Sustainable Forest Management
___ Land Tenure, Land Use and Indigenous Politics
in the 1990s
___ Community Values, Ethical Choices, and Economic
Development in Indigenous Amazonia
___ Sobrevivencia de Empresas Forestales Comunitarias
en Sistemas de Mercado Abierto
TRANSPORTATION TO MADISON
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is accessible from three
airports: (1) Madison, (2) Milwaukee (90 miles away, with ground
transportation by Badger Bus, (608) 255-6771, $ 7.00 each way),
and Chicago (150 miles away, with bus service available from Van
Galder Bus Company, (800) 747-0994, $17.00 each way). Most major
airlines serve the Madison area. Midwest Express offers
discounted fares with a Friday or Saturday night stayover.
HOTEL INFORMATION
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at two Madison hotels. Both
are conveniently located several blocks from the State Historical
Society Auditorium (the site of the symposium), the University of
Wisconsin Campus, and the State Street pedestrian mall. The
Wisconsin Center Guest House has an indoor pool. WHEN YOU BOOK
YOUR ROOM, REFER TO THE COMMUNITY FORESTRY SYMPOSIUM
WISCONSIN CENTER GUEST HOUSE
Lowell Hall
610 Langdon Street
Reservations (608) 256-2621
Rates:
$38.00 / single
$48.00 / double
MADISON INN
601 Langdon, Madison, WI
Reservations (608) 257-4391
Rates:
$46.00 - 60.00 / single
$51.00 - 65.00 / double
OTHER LODGING ALTERNATIVES
A Howard Johnson Hotel is located at 525 W. Johnson, within
walking distance of the symposium. Conference rates are $63.00 /
single and $ 71 / double. Call (608) 251-5511 for reservations.
Dormitory-style rooms have also been reserved in Jorns Hall and
Humphrey Hall, 650 Babcock Drive. Call Mary Vance at (608) 262-
2270 for more information and to make reservations. She can find
roommates for those who wish to share rooms.
$ 25.00 / single
$ 18.00 per person / double
$ 12.00 per person / triple
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Networked by:
Ecological Enterprises
2701 University Ave., B-368
Madison, WI 53705
USA
(608) 263-3255 daytime phone & fax
gbarry@macc.wisc.edu or switpi@igc.apc.org