Ecological Economic and Socio Ecological Strategies for Forest Conservation

Foreword.- Preface.- Part 1. General thoughts on transdisciplinarity, economics and ecology.- Chapter 1. Towards a transdisciplinary ecological economics: a cognitive approach.- Chapter 2. The 'Tragedy of the Commons' and the role of the money interest rate.- Chapter 3. Allocative efficiency and property rights in ecological economics: why we need to distinguish between man-made capital and natural resources.- Part 2. Chile.- Chapter 4. Subsidizing green deserts in southern Chile - between fast growth and sustainability of Forest Management.- Chapter 5. Land use as a socio-ecological system: developing a transdisciplinary approach to studies of land use change in south-central Chile.- Chapter 6. Between extractivism and conservation: tree plantations, forest reserves, and peasant territorialities in Los Ríos, Chile.- Chapter 7. Land tenure insecurity and forest conservation in Chile: the case of the Mapuche Huilliche indigenous communities in the coastal range rainforests of Mapu Lahual.- Chapter 8. Towards a New Forest Model for Chile: managing forest ecosystems to increase their social, ecological and economic benefits.- Chapter 9. On ecosystem dynamics for the conservation of wetlands and forest.- Part 3. Brazil.- Chapter 10. Transdisciplinary case study approaches to the ecological restoration of rainforest ecosystems.- Chapter 11. Forest governance in Brazil and Chile: institutions and practices in the implementation of sustainable management of native forests.- Chapter 12. Municipal private natural heritage reserves: uses and attributions of Natural Protected Areas in the city of Curitiba (PR).- Chapter 13. Understanding adoption and design of incentive-based forest conservation policies: a case study of the SISA Program in Acre, Brazil.- Conclusions.- Index.

Felix Fuders holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Finance, has a M.A. in International Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics and Social Sciences (both University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany). As Professor and researcher at the Universidad Austral de Chile, he currently serves as Director of the Economics Institute as well as Director of SPRING Latin America, an M.Sc. program in Development Planning for Growing Economies jointly offered with universities in the Philippines, Ghana, Tanzania and Germany. He is also Director of the Economic Policy chapter of the Transdisciplinary Research Center for Socio Ecological Strategies for Forest Conservation (TESES). He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany and the University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany and a researcher at the RLC Campus Bonn, Germany. Felix Fuders is author and co-author of publications regarding Regional Economic Integration (EU and MERCOSUR),Regulatory Economics as well as Ecological Economics and Monetary Policy. Co-author of the book "La Evolución Sostenible II - Apuntes para una salida razonable", which was developed in cooperation with researchers from Universidad Mondragón (Spain) and Manfred Max-Neef (Right Livelihood Award 1983). His main research focuses on studying economic as well as moral-ethic problems inherent in our financial system that he believes to be the most relevant but least recognized reason for market failure. In this context, he currently works on explaining why the privatization of natural resources is neither a sustainable nor an allocative efficient solution to what Hardin once called the 'Tragedy of the Commons', and why we should distinguish between man-made products and pure natural resources concerning the assignation of property rights. He further advocates a model of an economy in which the driver to achieve allocative efficiency is neighborly love instead of competition. Felix is the Chairman of