European colonial efforts to pacify ‘rebellious’ Iban in western Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced chronic resource insecurity and may have contributed to the recorded destructiveness of Iban swidden cultivation. Negative European opinions towards swiddening...
Wadley, R.L.
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[Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries]
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Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Shifting cultivation is practiced by millions of farmers in the tropics and has been accused of causing deforestation and keeping farmers in poverty. The assumed positive relationship between fallow length and crop yields has long shaped such negative opinions on the sustainability and environmen...
Mertz, O.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Nielsen, U.
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Bruun, T.B.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Neergaard, Andreas de
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Jepsen, M.R.
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Martinussen, T.
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Qiang Zhao
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Noweg, G.T.
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Magid, J.
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[A fresh look at shifting cultivation: fallow length an uncertain indicator of productivity]
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A fresh look at shifting cultivation: fallow length an uncertain indicator of productivity
Danau Sentarum National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia is bordered on three sides by Iban settlements and the forests they manage. The forest management system practiced by an Iban community on the northeastern periphery of the reserve is described here. Iban agroforestry is based on two prin...
Wadley, R.L.
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[Iban forest management and wildlife conservation along the Danau Sentarum periphery, West Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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Iban forest management and wildlife conservation along the Danau Sentarum periphery, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Development of management plans collaboratively with local people (e.g. co-management) is now an important means of protected area conservation. Yet formal protected area managers often need more specific information about the local people with whom they want to co-manage resources. We propose wi...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Venkateswarlu, P.
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[Understanding local people's use of time: a pre-condition for good co-management]
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Understanding local people's use of time: a pre-condition for good co-management