Contents

Preface

Maps

INTRODUCTION
The Challenge of Sustainable Forest Use

ONE
The Ramón Tree and the Maya

TWO
Mexican Bark Paper
Commercialization of a Pre-Hispanic Technology

THREE
Camu-camu
Fruits, Floods, and Vitamin C

FOUR
Fruits from the Amazon Floodplain

FIVE
Forest Fruits of Borneo

SIX
Homemade Dayak Forests

SEVEN
Sawmills and Sustainability in Papua New Guinea

EIGHT
Collaborative Conservation in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Reserve

NINE
A Renewable Supply of Carving Wood

TEN
Caboclo Forestry in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve

ELEVEN
Measuring Tree Growth with Maya Foresters

TWELVE
Managing Agave, Distilling Mescal

THIRTEEN
Landscape Dynamics in Southwestern China

FOURTEEN
The World of Rattan

FIFTEEN
Community Forestry in Myanmar

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index