This paper describes the effects of the colonial and post-colonial land policies and legislation on the management and utilisation of natural woodlands in Malawi and Zimbabwe. The two countries share similar patterns of land ownership; customary or tribal trust land designated by colonial governm...
Mataya, C.
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Gondo, P.
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Kowero, G.S.
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[Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development]
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Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development
Over the last three decades, forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon has diminished the availability of some widely used medicinal plant species. Results of a 9-year market study suggest that forests represent an important habitat for medicinal plants used in eastern Amazonia: Nine of the twel...
Shanley, P.
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Luz, L.
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[The impacts of forest degradation on medicinal plant use and implications for health care in Eastern Amazonia]
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The impacts of forest degradation on medicinal plant use and implications for health care in Eastern Amazonia
The article first reviews rates and definitions of tropical deforestation and the environmental implications in terms of climate change, biodiversity loss, and reduced supply of forest products. Tropical deforestation and other land use changes contributed about 20% of the global anthropogenic CO...
Bank Mandiri, the largest bank in Indonesia, was the latest government institution to provide financial subsidies to Indonesian forestry conglomerates by writing off major part of their debts. Before Bank Mandiri, IBRA, under the pressure by the IMF for the “quick sales” of its assets, had writte...
Barr, C.
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Setiono, B.
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[Writing off Indonesia’s forestry debt: how the IMF, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and Bank Mandiri are financing forest destruction]
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Writing off Indonesia’s forestry debt: how the IMF, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and Bank Mandiri are financing forest destruction
The main challenge that the Amazon region poses is what should be done to avoid that the region will follow the fate of other tropical regions: forest destruction and poverty. The fact that most of 80 percent of the region remains as forest leaves us the opportunity to build the way towards susta...
Alencar, A.
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Nepstad, D.C.
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McGrath, D.
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Moutinho, P.
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Pacheco, P.
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Carmen Vera Diaz, M. del
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Soares Filho, B.
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[Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica"]
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Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica"
Wunder, Sven
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[Policy options for stabilising the forest frontier: a global perspective]
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Policy options for stabilising the forest frontier: a global perspective
This chapter examines the policy debate related to the links between forests and water in Central America and the approaches that policymakers and others have used to address the perceived problems, with emphasis on the siltation of large reservoirs. It shows how political, institutional, and tec...
Kaimowitz, D.
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[Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the links between forests and water in Central America]
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Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the links between forests and water in Central America
Global deforestation and forest degradation rates have a significant impact on the accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that during the 1990s 16.1 million hectares per year were affected by deforestation, most of them in the tro...
Schlamadinger, B.
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Ciccarese, L.
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Dutschke, M.
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Fearnside, P.M.
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Brown, S.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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[Should we include avoidance of deforestation in the international response to climate change?]
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Should we include avoidance of deforestation in the international response to climate change?
In this paper, I examine patterns of wealth accumulation and their influence on deforestation among smallholders at Uruará and Redenção, in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon. I argue that the development of the smallholder economy has not been a linear process, and the diversity o...
Pacheco, P.
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[Smallholder Livelihoods, Wealth and Deforestation in the Eastern Amazon.]
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Smallholder Livelihoods, Wealth and Deforestation in the Eastern Amazon.