Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword, by Hon. Jorge Viana -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Neotropical Working Forests: Concepts and Realities, by Daniel J. Zarin -- Part I. Industrial Forestry as a Tropical Conservation Strategy -- 2. Are You a Conservationist or a Logging Advocate?, by Francis E. Putz -- 3. National Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities and Challenges, by Adalberto Veríssimo and Paulo Barreto -- 4. Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon: Carbon Budgets and Remote Sensing as Tools for Evaluation of Logging Effects, by Michael Keller, Gregory P. Asner, Natalino Silva and Michael Palace -- 5. Forest Science and the BOLFOR Experience: Lessons Learned about Natural Forest Management in Bolivia, by Francis E. Putz, Michelle A. Pinard, Todd .S. Fredericksen, and Marielos Peña-Claros -- 6. The Business of Forest Certification, by Joshua C. Dickinson, John M. Forgach, and Thomas E. Wilson -- Part II. Working Forests and Community Development in Latin America -- 7. Communities, Forests, Markets, and Conservation, by Mariane Schmink -- 8. Making Markets Work for Forest Communities, by Sara J. Scherr, Andy White, and David Kaimowitz -- 9. Inside the Polygon: Emerging Community Tenure Systems and Forest Resource Extraction, by Thomas Ankersen and Grenville Barnes -- 10. Aiming for Sustainable Community Forest Management: The Experiences of Two Communities in Mexico and Honduras, by Catherine Tucker -- 11. Community Forestry for Small-Scale Furniture Production in the Brazilian Amazon, by David McGrath, Charles Peters, and Antônio José Mota Bentes -- Color Plates -- 12. Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management: Perspectives from Quintana Roo, by David Bray -- 13. Carbon Sequestration Potential through Forestry Activities in Tropical Mexico, by Bernardus de Jong.

14. Axing the Trees, Growing the Forest: Smallholder Timber Production in the Amazon Várzea, by Robin Sears and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez -- Part III. Working Forest Paradoxes -- 15. Neotropical Working Forests: For What and For Whom?, by Janaki Alavalapati and Daniel J. Zarin -- 16. On Defying Nature's End, by Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, Aaron Bruner, Russell A. Mittermeier, Keith Alger, Clau -- 17. Selective Logging, Forest Fragmentation and Fire Disturbance: Implications of Interaction, by Mark A. Cochrane, David L. Skole, Eraldo A. T. Matricardi, Christopher Barber, and Walter Chomentowski -- 18. Limited or Unlimited Wants in the Presence of Limited Means? Inquiries into the Role of Satiation in Affecting Deforestation, by Arild Angelsen and Martin K. Luckert -- 19. From Staple to Fashion Food: Shifting Cycles and Shifting Opportunities in the development of the Açaí Palm Fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) Economy in the Amazon Estuary, by Eduardo S. Brondizio -- 20. The Homogeocene in Puerto Rico, by Ariel E. Lugo -- Part IV. Envisioning a Future for Sustainable Tropical Forest Management -- 21. Conventional Wisdom about Sustainable Forest Management and a Pro-Poor Forest Agenda, by David Kaimowitz -- 22. Governing the Amazon Timber Industry, by Daniel Nepstad, Ane Alencar, Ana Cristina Barros, Eirivelthon Lima, Elsa Mendoza -- Index.