This paper recounts of a household survey done in Long Segar, East Kalimantan, in June 1997, covering the period from 1991-1997. This survey is a follow-up survey of land use, conducted first in 1980 (1962-1980) and again in 1991 (1981-1991). The initial purpose of the 1997 survey was to assess c...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Salim, A.
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[Kenyah forest use in East Kalimantan: responses to El Nino, transmigration and HTI]
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Kenyah forest use in East Kalimantan: responses to El Nino, transmigration and HTI
This chapter describes Colfer’s experience doing fieldwork in the village of Pulai, in West Sumatra. She describes the early stages of her research when the community approached her with great suspicion, fearing that she was there to proselytize the Christian religion. She documents her persisten...
This paper provides three types of evidence demonstrating women’s importance in forest management. The first draws on Colfer’s extensive, long term ethnographic experience in the forests of the United States and Indonesia---showing the various ways in which women participate in local, informal fo...
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa. Part I is a set of synthesis chapters, addressing policy, public health, environmental conservation, and ecological perspe...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Human health and forests: a global overview of issues, practice and policy]
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Human health and forests: a global overview of issues, practice and policy
Elias, Marlène
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Basnett, B.S.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Looking forward in gender and forestry related research and praxis]
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Looking forward in gender and forestry related research and praxis
Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combine...
From a broad review of 670 publications on gender and forests, ~130 were found to address the world’s dry forests. These were examined with the intent to extract gendered social, cultural, political and economic patterns of relevance in such forests. Seven interrelated themes recurred in this lit...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Elias, Marlène
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Jamnadass, Ramni H.
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[Women and men in tropical dry forests: a preliminary review]
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Women and men in tropical dry forests: a preliminary review
There is currently much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource management, including forestry. This reader provides a collection of key articles on gender and forests published over the last 30 years. Including an editorial introduction and overview, it provides an accessible collec...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Elias, M.
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Sijapati Basnett, B.
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Hummel, S.S.
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[The Earthscan reader on gender and forests]
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The Earthscan reader on gender and forests