**Meet the editors**

Dr Jorge Martín García is Assistant Professor in the Forest Engineering and Environmental Department at the University of Extremadura (Spain). He has both experience in International and Spanish Forestry Environmental Sustainability. He has carried out research stays at the University of Aberdeen (UK), Finish Forest Research Institute (Finland), French National Institute

for Agricultural Research (France) and University of San Luis (Argentina) along with some other research universities. He has also worked as a Lecturer at the college of Forestry (León, Spain) and as a Forest Manager for the Government of Spain and for some private companies. He holds a Forest Engineering Degree (Best Student Record Award) and a Master in Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Systems at the University of Valladolid (Spain), and his PhD Topic is "Sustainable Forest Management: in search of indicators".

Julio J. Diez is Professor at the University of Valladolid in the Sustainable Forest Management Institute located at Palencia city. He has 17 years of teaching experience in the field of forestry. He holds a PhD in Forestry from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a Master's Degree in Biology from the University of Salamanca. He published more than 50 scientific papers in peer-re-

viewed journals, been an invited keynote speaker in international symposia and congress around the world. He has coordinated different research projects in forestry, including some international projects in Sustainable Forest Management.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

John Eilif Hermansen

Richard S. Mbatu

**Part 2 America 75** 

Chapter 2 **Obstacles to a Conceptual Framework** 

and Susan Balaba Tumwebaze

Chapter 4 **Sustainable Forest Management of** 

Chapter 1 **Methodology for Forest Ecosystem Mediating** 

**Indicator – Case Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 3** 

**for Sustainable Forest Management Under** 

Chapter 3 **Collaborative Forest Management in Uganda: Benefits,** 

**Native Vegetation Remnants in Brazil 77**  Lucas Rezende Gomide, Fausto Weimar Acerbi Junior, José Roberto Soares Scolforo, José Márcio de Mello,

Natalino Calegário and Antônio Carlos Ferraz Filho

Chapter 5 **Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil:** 

Afonso Figueiredo Filho, Marilice Cordeiro Garrastazú,

Thorsten Beimgraben, Patricia Povoa de Mattos and

Yeda Maria Malheiros de Oliveira

**REDD in Central Africa: A Two-Country Analysis 27** 

**Implementation Challenges and Future Directions 51**  Nelson Turyahabwe, Jacob Godfrey Agea, Mnason Tweheyo

Antônio Donizette de Oliveira, Luis Marcelo Tavares de Carvalho,

**Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning 97**  André Eduardo Biscaia de Lacerda, Maria Augusta Doetzer Rosot,

Evelyn Roberta Nimmo, Betina Kellermann, Maria Izabel Radomski,

**Part 1 Africa 1** 
