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The Red List Categories and the accompanying five criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) provide an authoritative and comprehensive methodology to assess the conservation status of organisms. Red List criterion B, which principally uses distribution data, ...


Dauby, G.Stévart, T.Droissart, V.Cosiaux, A.Deblauwe, V.Simo-Droissart, M.Sosef, M.S.M.Lowry, P.P.Schatz, G.E.Gereau, R.E.Couvreur, T.L.P.[ConR: An R package to assist large-scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data]ConR: An R package to assist large-scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data

Informed plantation management requires a good database, since the quality of information depends on the quality of data, growth models and other planning tools. There are several important questions concerning permanent plots: how many plots, where to put them, and how to manage them. Plot measu...


Vanclay, J.K.Skovsgaard, J.P.Hansen, C.P.[Assessing the quality of permanent sample plot databases for growth modelling in forest plantations]Assessing the quality of permanent sample plot databases for growth modelling in forest plantations
Vanclay, J.K.[Assessing the sustainability of timber harvests from natural forests: limitations of indices based on successive harvests]Assessing the sustainability of timber harvests from natural forests: limitations of indices based on successive harvests

In 1995 a survey of research capacity was conducted at institutions undertaking forestry-related research in the SADC countries. This document presents a review of the methods available for the assessment of research capacity and summarizes previous efforts to assess research capacity in the regi...


Kowero, G.S.Spilsbury, M.J.[Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community]Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community

A Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) was undertaken in two logging concessions bounding the Kerinci Seblat National Park in Central Sumatra. The REA was implemented by WWF Indonesia and funded by the World Bank. CIFOR together with LIPI advised on survey method as part of a wider study involving b...


Gillison, A.N.Liswanti, N.Rachman, I.A.[Rapid ecological assessment Kerinci Seblat National Park buffer zone: report on plant ecology.]Rapid ecological assessment Kerinci Seblat National Park buffer zone: report on plant ecology.

The need for new criteria and indicators for the assessment of biodiversity conservation as part of sustainable forest management of tropical forests has been identified as a priority by many international organisations. Those biodiversity criteria and indicators which formed part of a much broad...


Stork, N.E.Boyle, T.J.B.Dale, V.Eeley, H.Finegan, B.Lawes, M.Manokaran, N.Prabhu, R.Soberon, J.[Criteria and indicators for assessing the sustainability of forest management: conservation of biodiversity]Criteria and indicators for assessing the sustainability of forest management: conservation of biodiversity

This working paper contains proposals for specific genetic criteria and indicators (C&I) which are expected to be part of a more general set of biological C&I. These proposals are intended for use in guiding tropical forest management but the indicators and verifiers we describe are not in the fo...


Namkoong, G.Boyle, T.J.B.Gregorius, H.R.Joly, H.Savolainen, O.Ratnam, W.Young, A.[Testing Criteria and Indicators for assessing the sustainability of forest management: genetic criteria and indicators]Testing Criteria and Indicators for assessing the sustainability of forest management: genetic criteria and indicators

This paper reports the results of a pre-test in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, of four methods designed to assess the level and nature of participation by local people in forest management quickly and easily. Two of the methods - the "Iterative Continuum Method" (ICM) and the participatory card sort...


Colfer, C.J.P.Wadley, R.L.[Assessing "participation" in forest management: workable methods and unworkable assumptions]Assessing "participation" in forest management: workable methods and unworkable assumptions

The Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) is designed to minimize the shortage of drinking water in the Kathmandu valley. Although the project was supposed to be completed by 2008, due to various problems, it is still diffi cult to forecast the exact date of completion. This paper quantifi es the ...


Gurung, PabitraBharathi L.[Downstream impacts of the Melamchi Inter-Basin Water Transfer Plan (MIWTP) under current and future climate change projections.]Downstream impacts of the Melamchi Inter-Basin Water Transfer Plan (MIWTP) under current and future climate change projections.
Karki, M.Gasparatos, A.Senaratna Sellamuttu, SonaliKohsaka, R.Thaman, R.Leimona, B.Opgenoorth, L.Han, K.H.Magni, P.Saito, O.Talukdar, G.Zadegan, S.S.Pandit, R.Hyakumura, K.Isa, S.S.Lasmana, F.[Setting the scene]Setting the scene

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