Without the assistance of Sherry Bryson, PublicationsOfficer of the Institute, this book would never haveappeared in press. Her work in editing and shepherdingthe manuscripts through the •preparation for printing•phase was outstanding. The diligent work of HelenTakeuchi in proofing, typing, and organizing the chaptersis gratefully recognized. And to Marietta Mendoza, whosetyping efforts went beyond the call of duty, a vote ofthanks. The authors and editor are deeply appreciative ofthe contributions of these staff members.

The case studies in this book are authoritative analysis of the extent to which applied scientific and economic information can lead to sustained yields of crops and timber from forest lands in Asia and the Pacific. They also contribute to a better understanding of the actual problems of site management in forestry and watershed rehabilitation projects. The studies from Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Nepal, Sri-Lanka, India and the Philippines show how and why procedures succeed or fail in achieving policy goals and demonstrate clearly that determined efforts are necessary and worthwhile to conserve the productive capacity of forest lands.

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries. In this volume, part of the WIDER Program on the Economics of the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented, and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers.

This book describes the upper watershed technologies and quotes successful examples. It is concerned with the less researched and often less-tractable land-use problems of rural areas involving the management of croplands, plantations, forests, and rangelands.

This ambitious interdisciplinary volume places population processes in their social, political, and economic contexts while it considers their environmental impacts. Examining the multi-faceted patterns of human relationships that overlay, alter, and distort our ties to urban and rural landscapes, the book focuses especially on the essential experi