The changing role of forests in people’s livelihoods in frontier areas is important from the perspective of poverty alleviation and forest conservation. This study explores the link between expanding economic opportunities, forest dependence, and welfare in 73 villages. Village economic options, ...
Dewi, S.
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Belcher, B.
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Puntodewo, A.
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[Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea’s popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, t...
Ruiz Perez, M.
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Almeida, M.
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Dewi, S.
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Costa, E.M.L.
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Pantoja, M.C.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Postigo, A.A.
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Andrade, A.G. de
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[Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua]
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Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy option...
Sunderlin, William D.
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Dewi, S.
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Puntodewo, A.
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[Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions]
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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions