From pdh@u.washington.edu Tue Jan 3 10:17:02 PST 1995 >From pdh@u.washington.edu Tue Jan 3 10:17:02 1995 Return-Path: Received: from stein3.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA29288; Tue, 3 Jan 95 10:17:02 -0800 Received: by stein3.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA00145; Tue, 3 Jan 95 10:16:59 -0800 X-Sender: pdh@stein3.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:16:57 -0800 (PST) From: Preston Hardison To: indknow@u.washington.edu Subject: Community Forestry Symposium Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 3 Jan 95 08:37:54 -0800 From: Tom K. Sinclair To: Multiple recipients of list 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 *********************************** Tom Sinclair Public Information Manager Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Email: tksincla@facstaff.wisc.edu Phone: (608) 263-5599 *********************************** .