@article{fdi:010042463,
  title = {{D}omestic forests : a new paradigm for integrating local communities ' forestry into tropical forest science},
  author = {{M}ichon, {G}enevi{\`e}ve and {F}oresta, {H}ubert de and {L}evang, {P}atrice and {V}erdeaux, {F}ran{\c{c}}ois},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{D}espite a long history of confrontation between forest agencies and forest people, "indigenous" or "local" practices are increasingly considered as a viable alternative of forest management. {T}his paper is a synthesis derived from various long-term research programs carried out by the authors in {S}outheast {A}sia and {A}frica on forests managed by farmers. {T}hese researches looked at local practices and underlying science, including their social, political, and symbolic dimensions. {T}hey also addressed evolutionary trends and driving forces, as well as potential and limits for forest conservation and development, mitigation of deforestation, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in a context of global environmental, political, and social change. {W}e discuss how forest management by local communities, contrary to the unified models of professional forest management, exhibits a high historical and geographical diversity. {T}he analysis we draw from the various examples we studied reveals several invariants, which allows proposing the unifying paradigm of "domestic forest." {T}he first universal feature concerns the local managers themselves, who are, in their vast majority, farmers. {M}anagement practices range from local interventions in the forest ecosystem, to more intensive types of forest culture, and ultimately to permanent forest plantation. {B}ut in all cases, forest management is closely integrated with agriculture. {T}he second universal feature concerns the conceptual continuity of planted forests with the natural forest, in matters of vegetation's structure and composition as well as economic traits and ecosystem services. {T}he resulting forest is uneven-aged, composed of several strata, harboring a large diversity of species, and producing a wide range of products, with timber seldom being the dominant one. {T}he term "domestic forest" aims at highlighting the close relationship the domestication process establishes between a specific human group, including its elementary units, the "domestic units," and the forest, transformed and managed to fulfill the needs of that group. {T}he domestic forest paradigm calls for the integration into forest science of a new concept of land management in which production and conservation are compatible, and in which there is no choice to be made between people and nature. {I}t does not aim at contesting the value of conventional forest science, but it proposes domestic forests as a new scientific domain, for the combined benefit of forest science and of forest people. {I}t does not contest the value of conventional forest management models, but pushes towards more equitable relations between forest agencies and farmers managing forest resources on their own lands.},
  keywords = {forest management paradigms ; indigenous forest management ; local forest management ; tropical forestry ; {ZONE} {TROPICALE} ; {AFRIQUE} {SUBSAHARIENNE} ; {ASIE} {DU} {SUD} {EST}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}cology and {S}ociety},
  volume = {12},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {art no 1 :  {NIL}_29--{NIL}_52},
  ISSN = {1708-3087},
  year = {2007},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010042463},
}