Problem definition for integrated natural resource management in forest margins in the humid tropics: characterisation and diagnosis of land use practices

Abstract

We would like to introduce this series of lecture notes on the need and options for integrated natural resource management in forest margins of the humid tropics, by presenting side by side a number of perspectives. The issues will cover •the need for better ways of dealing with the remaining forest resources in the humid tropics, •climate change as a development problem, •perceptions that shifting cultivation is part of the problem. We suppose that the following list can easily be updated by reading the newspapers, checking WWW sites and following public debate. Please read the following text and try to relate the perspective presented to the source