What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes

Sammanfattning

Forests have long been locations of contestation between people and state bureaucracies, and among the knowledge frameworks of local users, foresters, ecologists, and conservationists. An essential framing of the debate has been between the categories of primary and secondary forest. In this introduction to a collection of papers that address the questions of what basis, in what sense, and for whom primary forest is 'primary' and secondary forest is 'secondary,' and whether these are useful distinctions, we outline this debate and propose a new conceptual model that departs from the simple binary of primary and secondary forests. Rather, we propose that attention should be given to the nature of the disturbance that may alter forest ecology, the forms of regeneration that follow, and the governance context within which this takes place.

Nyckelord

Secondary forest; Forest landscapes; Disturbance; Regeneration; Public authority; Subsistence livelihoods

Publicerad i

Human Ecology
2020, volym: 49, nummer: 3, sidor: 239-247

SLU författare

• Pain, Adam

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Marquardt, Kristina

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Lindh, Arvid

  • Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Hasselquist, Niles

  • Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald

UKÄ forskningsämne

Annan biologi
Ekologi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-020-00203-y

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/109620