Planting Trees in the Developing World: A Sociology of International Organizations - Couverture rigide

Brechin, Steven R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801854393 ISBN 13 : 9780801854392

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Over the past several decades, international and national agencies and organizations have become increasingly aware of the problems of deforestation and desertification in the developing world. Consequently, they have mobilized interests and resources to combat these threats to sustainable economic development through a new activity - the organized planting of trees for people. Reforestation has proven to be difficult, however, because most arable land is already in use for agriculture and because uncertainties exist over land and tree tenure. With forestry institutions in many developing countries weak and ineffective, international organizations have assumed the leadership in promoting this crucial task. In "Planting Trees in the Developing World" Steven R. Brechin draws upon organizational sociology to explain why three international organizations - the World Bank, the Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization, and CARE-USA - performed so differently while promoting rural development forestry projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steven R. Brechin is associate research scientist at the International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a teacher at the Residential College. His books include 'Population-Environment Dynamics: Ideas and Observations'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801854393
• ISBN 13: 9780801854392
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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