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Journal Article 2000

Autor: Putz, F.E. Dykstra, D.P. Heinrich, R.

Despite abundant evidence that both the environment damage and the financial costs of logging can be reduced substantially by training workers, pre-planning skid trails, practicing directional felling, and carrying out a variety of other well-known forestry practices, destructive logging is still...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/18132

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Putz, F.E. ,  Dykstra, D.P. ,  Heinrich, R. ,  [Why poor logging practices persist in the tropics] ,  Why poor logging practices persist in the tropics
Journal Article 2000

Autor: Ekoko, F.

The formulation of Cameroon's 1994 Forestry Law was influenced by the World Bank, the Government of Cameroon and French politicians, as well as by logging companies and individual Cameroonian politicians. Development objectives, direct material interests and political concerns motivated their act...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/18299

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Ekoko, F. ,  [Balancing politics, economics and conservation: the case of the Cameroon forestry law reform] ,  Balancing politics, economics and conservation: the case of the Cameroon forestry law reform
Book Chapter 2002

Autor: Campbell, Bruce M. Luckert, M.K.

To understand the role of forest products in households people need to understand the nature of rural livelihoods and the characteristics of forest products. Rural households typically have a wide livelihood portfolio, encompassing a range of activities. They also generally face low availability ...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/18475

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Campbell, Bruce M. ,  Luckert, M.K. ,  [Towards understanding the role of forests in rural livelihoods] ,  Towards understanding the role of forests in rural livelihoods
Journal Article 2002

Autor: Kaimowitz, D.

This paper reviews the shifts in thinking as reflected in eight recent books that discuss deforestation in the Amazon. It looks first at whether the land uses that replace forests are profitable and sustainable without subsidies and then examines how technology, tenure, credit, and roads affect d...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/18571

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Kaimowitz, D. ,  [Amazon deforestation revisited] ,  Amazon deforestation revisited
Book 2005

Autor: Wunder, Sven

Payments for environmental services (PES) are part of a new and more direct conservation paradigm, explicitly recognizing the need to bridge the interests of landowners and outsiders. Eloquent theoretical assessments have praised the absolute advantages of PES over traditional conservation approa...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/19193

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Wunder, Sven ,  [Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts] ,  Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts
Journal Article 2006

Autor: Tacconi, L. Vayda, A.P.

A paper published in Ecological Economics [Varma, A. 2003. The economics of slash and burn: a case study of the 1997–1998 Indonesian forest fires. Ecological Economics 46,159–171] claims to show that slash and burn agriculture is socially inefficient and should be banned. However, its conclusions...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/19353

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Tacconi, L. ,  Vayda, A.P. ,  [Slash and burn and fires in Indonesia: a comment] ,  Slash and burn and fires in Indonesia: a comment
Book Chapter 2005

Autor: Diaw, C.

Cuatomary tenure, mingled with state law and occasional private titling, continue predominantly to govern African rural and forest lands. This is in spite of evolutionist theories that predicted its demise and colonial and post-colonial policies that tried actively to accelerate it. The chapter d...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/19395

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Diaw, C. ,  [Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies] ,  Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies
Journal Article 2009

Autor: Pacheco, P.

This paper examines the interactions between state-led land reform, agrarian structures, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Land reform tends to promote land redistribution through regularization of smallholder land invasions of large-scale landholdings, and by redistribution of public la...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/20184

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Pacheco, P. ,  [Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Amazon: its implications for land distribution and deforestation] ,  Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Amazon: its implications for land distribution and deforestation
Journal Article 2010

Autor: Wunder, Sven

Since the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change (Stern 2006), many have seen avoiding deforestation of tropical forests as arguably the fastest way and cheaper to mitigate climate change. The idea is that the richest countries - which were the largest emitters of greenhouse ...

Enlace original: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/20625

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Wunder, Sven ,  [REDD: de boas idéias a realidades complicadas] ,  REDD: de boas idéias a realidades complicadas

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