City Dwellers and the Central African Tropical Forest: resource use and perceptions

Brussels June 1994
Submited to European Commission DG XI, contract no B-8110-93-000284

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Summary of principal results

2. Recommendations

3. Introduction

3.1 Research imperatives
3.2 Working hypotheses

4. Trends in conservation strategies

5. Research venue

5.1 Central Africa
5.2 Contrasts and comparisons: Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire

6. Urbanisation

7. Findings

7.1 Use of forest products

7.1.1 Fuelwood
- Kinshasa
- Yaoundé
- Libreville
7.1.2 Bushmeat
- Libreville
- Yaoundé
- Kinshasa
- Kisangani

7.1.3 Other forest products

7.2 Anthropological perceptions

7.2.1 The forest space
7.2.2 Wildlife
7.2.3 Trees, timber and the environment
7.2.4 Forest peoples

8. Research support structure

8.1 Data accumulation and documentation
8.2 Creation of research task force

9. Evaluation of results

Appendices

1. Bibliography
2. Principal participants in study
3. Intermediary report
4. Terms of reference