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Autor: Vanclay, J.K.

Incentives intended to stimulate better land use practices often don't work as intended, and can have undesirable side effects that were not foreseen. How can we better equip policy makers and their advisors to envisage fully the efficacy and consequences of initiatives? One way is to provide a d...


Vanclay, J.K.[FLORES: for exploring land use options in forested landscapes]FLORES: for exploring land use options in forested landscapes
Vanclay, J.K.[Living on the edge: evaluating options for people and ecosystems at the forest edge.]Living on the edge: evaluating options for people and ecosystems at the forest edge.
Kvist, L.P.Gram, S.Vanclay, J.K.[Estimating the importance of Amazonian flood plain forest for Peruvian flood plain inhabitants]Estimating the importance of Amazonian flood plain forest for Peruvian flood plain inhabitants
Skovsgaard, J.P.Vanclay, J.K.García, O.[An overview of approaches to evaluating forest growth models (Abstract only)]An overview of approaches to evaluating forest growth models (Abstract only)

Use-values have been advocated as a tool to compare the value of not just individual species, but also of plant families and forest types to local people, e.g. to identify species or habitats in need of special management or conservation. We estimated use-values in three forest types (upper resti...


Kvist, L.P.Andersen, M.Hesselsoe, M.Vanclay, J.K.[Estimating use-values and relative importance of Amazonian flood plain trees and forests to local inhabitants]Estimating use-values and relative importance of Amazonian flood plain trees and forests to local inhabitants

Sustainability in the context of development and forest management is a concept defined by human-beings. As human needs change across space and time, so will the expectations of what benefits and services of forests need to be sustained. Much of CIFOR's research focuses on providing a better unde...


Prabhu, R.Vanclay, J.K.[Pinning down a moving target: sustainability, people and forests]Pinning down a moving target: sustainability, people and forests

Effective model evaluation is not a single, simple procedure, but comprises several interrelated steps that cannot be separated from each other or from the purpose and process of model construction. We draw attention to several statistical and graphical procedures that may assist in model calibra...


Vanclay, J.K.Skovsgaard, J.P.[Evaluating forest growth models]Evaluating forest growth models

The paper outlines some of the key issues relating to the maintenance of 'healthy forests' in the tropics. It examines the concept of sustainable forestry and its corollary the destruction or degradation of forests, before moving on to discuss some of the challenges faced by the international com...


Vanclay, J.K.Prabhu, R.[Healthy forests: sound economics, social justice]Healthy forests: sound economics, social justice

FLORES, the Forest Land Oriented Resurce Envisioning System, is a framework to facilitate quantitative modelling of ecological, economic and social issues at the landscape scale. This special issue of journal describes the evolution of FLORES from a concept to a series of models calibrated for di...


Vanclay, J.K.Prabhu, R.Sinclair, Fergus L.[Participatory modelling of community forest landscape]Participatory modelling of community forest landscape

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