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COMMUNITY FORESTS IN CANADA AND ABROAD:<br />

EXPERIMENTS AND EXPERIENCES IN PURSUIT<br />

OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />

PETER N. DUINKER<br />

Director and Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University,<br />

1312 Robie St., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5<br />

phone: 902-494-7100; fax: 902-494-3728, Courriel: peter.duinker@dal.ca<br />

Résumé<br />

While community forests have existed in some parts of the world for many centuries, experiences and<br />

experiments with community forests have expan<strong>de</strong>d recently. Invariably, community forests are<br />

attempts to improve community economic <strong>de</strong>velopment and environmental protection through<br />

localization of control over forest <strong>la</strong>nd and its resources. In essence, this can be seen as a search for local<br />

sustainable <strong>de</strong>velopment. In this paper, I review some basic concepts about community forests, and then<br />

summarize recent literature that <strong>de</strong>scribes community forests in Canada, Italy and Swe<strong>de</strong>n. In<br />

particu<strong>la</strong>r, I search for lessons about local sustainable <strong>de</strong>velopment that might be helpful in furthering<br />

the concept of community forest in Canada.<br />

La foresterie communautaire existe <strong>de</strong>puis plusieurs siècles dans certaines régions du mon<strong>de</strong> et tend à<br />

se répandre récemment. Dans tous les cas les projets visent à améliorer le développement économique<br />

<strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> communauté et <strong>la</strong> protection <strong>de</strong> l'environnement via le contrôle local du territoire et <strong>de</strong> ses<br />

ressources. Ce sont donc <strong>de</strong>s projets <strong>de</strong> développement durable et local. Dans le cadre <strong>de</strong> cette<br />

conférence je vais discuter <strong>de</strong> certains concepts <strong>de</strong> base <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> foresterie communautaire et <strong>de</strong> certains<br />

projets au Canada, en Italie et en Suè<strong>de</strong>. Je vais chercher tout particulièrement à tirer <strong>de</strong>s leçons à<br />

propos du développement durable local qui peuvent être utiles à <strong>la</strong> promotion <strong>de</strong> ce concept au Canada.<br />

Corporation <strong>de</strong> Gestion <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> Forêt <strong>de</strong> l'Aigle<br />

19 Octobre: matin<br />

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