This research project was initiated in 1995 to address some concerns of many people, including scientists, who were questioning the prospects of tropical plantations established in short-rotation forestry as a sustainable natural resource. It is an international partnership of public and private ...
Nambiar, E.K.S.
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Kallio, M.H.
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[Increasing and sustaining productivity in subtropical and tropical plantation forests: Making a difference through research partnership]
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Increasing and sustaining productivity in subtropical and tropical plantation forests: Making a difference through research partnership
Governments around the world increasingly seek to manage their forests with the collaboration of the people living nearby. Ministries of forestry or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or oppor...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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Edmunds, D.
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Shanley, P.
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[Collaborative management of forests]
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Collaborative management of forests
This paper describes the experience of CIFOR research team in facilitating local communities to manage their natural resources in Malinau District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia during the Otonomi Daerah reform period (1998-present). The case examines how the CIFOR team used informal, shared learnin...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Iwan, R.
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Limberg, G.
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Moeliono, M.
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Rhee, S.
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Sudana, M.
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[Muddling towards cooperation: a CIFOR case study of shared learning in Malinau district, Indonesia]
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Muddling towards cooperation: a CIFOR case study of shared learning in Malinau district, Indonesia
Conservation concessions, as advocated by E.Niesten and R.Rice, suggest the paying revenues to populations and the State so that they may renounce income derived from forest exploitation. Apart from the questionable transformation of peasants as renters of conservation, serious questions arise as...
Karsenty, A.
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Nasi, Robert
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[Un commentaire sur l'article de E. Niesten et R. Rice les (concessions de conservation) sonnent-elles le glas de l'amenagement forestier durable?]
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Un commentaire sur l'article de E. Niesten et R. Rice les (concessions de conservation) sonnent-elles le glas de l'amenagement forestier durable?
Indonesia has experienced a rapid change in governance since the fall of President Suharto, with a profound shift to regional autonomy and decentralised management that rests primarily with the 420 or so districts (kabupaten) and municipalities (kota) in the country. In exercising this new author...
Brown, D.
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Schreckenberg, Kate
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Bird, N.
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Cerutti, P.O.
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Gatto, F.D.
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Diaw, C.
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Fomete, T
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Luttrell, C.
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Navarro, G.
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Oberndorf, R.
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Thiel, H
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Wells, A.
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[Legal timber: verification and governance in the forest sector]
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Legal timber: verification and governance in the forest sector
Tropical forest area is disappearing at the rate of 13.5 million ha each year, due mainly to clearing for agriculture and shifting cultivation. Timber harvesting results in more than 5 million ha of tropical forest annually being transformed into degraded, poorly managed, logged-over forests. The...
Kobayashi, S.
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[Landscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of the CIFOR/Japan project in Indonesia and Peru]
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Landscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of the CIFOR/Japan project in Indonesia and Peru
China’s south-western province of Yunnan is a mountainous area of high biological and cultural diversity that was annexed into China relatively late in Chinese history. The province has lost over two thirds of its original forest cover and lost half of what remained in the last fifty years. Ethni...
Wulan, Y.C.
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Yasmi, Y.
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Purba, C.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[An analysis of forestry sector conflict in Indonesia 1997 - 2003]
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An analysis of forestry sector conflict in Indonesia 1997 - 2003
This book presents a technical review of ecological and life history information on a range of Bornean wildlife species, aimed at identifying what makes these species sensitive to timber harvesting practices and associated impacts. It addresses three audiences: 1) those involved in assessing and ...
Meijaard, E.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Nasi, Robert
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Augeri, D.
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Rosenbaum, B.
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Iskandar, D.
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Setyawati, T.
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Lammertink, A.
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Rachmatika, I.
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Wong, A.
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Soehartono, T.
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Stanley, S.
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O'Brien, T.
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[Life after logging: reconciling wildlife conservation and production forestry in Indonesian Borneo]
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Life after logging: reconciling wildlife conservation and production forestry in Indonesian Borneo