Biodiversity is often ill-defined and subjectively surveyed, resulting in inefficient and ambiguos estimates. Strengths and deficiencies of prevailing survey techniques are appraised through a review of selected literature. Analogies with forest inventory are used to suggest options for more effi...
Menz, K.M.
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Grist, P.
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[Assessing the opportunities for smallholders to combine pulpwood trees and food crops]
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Assessing the opportunities for smallholders to combine pulpwood trees and food crops
This paper examines the nexus between milk production and water use in India. The nexus is examined in the context of extended consumptive water use (CWU) of milk production beyond drinking water. It includes the real CWU (evapotranspiration (ETa) that occurs during the production of green fodder...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Water-milk nexus in India: a path to a sustainable water future?]
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Water-milk nexus in India: a path to a sustainable water future?
South America is blessed with both world-leading levels of biodiversity, and world-record breaking levels of habitat conversion in some areas. Under this highly dynamic context, sound conservation planning is needed and one component of effectively prioritising conservation interventions is throu...
Jarvis, Andy
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Touval, Jerome L.
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Castro, M.
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Sotomayor L
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Hyman, Glenn
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[Assessment of threats to ecosystems in South America]
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Assessment of threats to ecosystems in South America
Total Factor Productivity (TFP) measures the growth in output which is not accounted for by inputs. Data Envelopment Analysis which forms the basis for the computation of Malmquist TFP index is used in this paper to study the performance of different river basins in Andhra Pradesh state, India. T...
Kuppannan, Palanisami
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Ranganathan, C.R.
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[Measuring the performance of river basins: application of total factor productivity approach to Andhra Pradesh, India.]
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Measuring the performance of river basins: application of total factor productivity approach to Andhra Pradesh, India.
Maredia, Mywish K.
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Raitzer, David A.
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[CGIAR and NARS partner research in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence of impact to date]
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CGIAR and NARS partner research in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence of impact to date
Previous research identified three important issues of relevance to forest people's roles in sustain- able forest management which we address here: the presence of a Conservation ethics, a feeling of closeness to the forest, and a significant forest-culture link. In this paper we examine a method...
In a year marked by several formal expert-level meetings on certification of forest management and criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (C&I), most of which were related to the mandate of the Inter-governmental Panel on Forests (IPF), CIFOR and CATIE decided to lead off by ho...
Lay Cheng Tan
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[Initiatives on assessing sustainability: status and future directions. Summary of the Open Session of the Third International Project Advisory Panel (IPAP) meeting on Testing Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Forests, Turrialba, Costa Rica, February 29 - March 1, 1996. CIFOR/ CATIE Special Publication]
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Initiatives on assessing sustainability: status and future directions. Summary of the Open Session of the Third International Project Advisory Panel (IPAP) meeting on Testing Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Forests, Turrialba, Costa Rica, February 29 - March 1, 1996. CIFOR/ CATIE Special Publication
The preoccupation of many conservation planners with the refinement of systematic assessment techniques has manifested an “implementation crisis” in conservation planning. This preoccupation has provided systematic assessments with well-tested tools (e.g., area selection algorithms) and principle...
Knight, A.
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Cowling, R.M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[An operational model for implementing conservation action]
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An operational model for implementing conservation action