This case study analyses origins and causes of decentralisation in Bolivia, how the process has affected tropical forest management, and initial impacts of decentralisation on distribution of benefits from forests. Impact of the Popular Participation Law of 1994, which bolstered municipal governm...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Flores, G.
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Johnson, J.
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Pacheco, P.
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Pavez, I.
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Roper, J.M.
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Vallejos, C.
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Velez, R.
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[Local government and biodiversity conservation: a case from the Bolivian lowlands]
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Local government and biodiversity conservation: a case from the Bolivian lowlands
This manual provides methods for the development and evaluation of criteria and indicators (C&I) which can then be used to assess the sustainability of forest management. The manual is written primarily for researchers, people or groups interested in evaluating C&I for assessments of forests in n...
Prabhu, R.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Dudley, R.G.
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[Directives pour le développement, le test et la sélection de critères et indicateurs pour une gestion durable des forêts]
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Directives pour le développement, le test et la sélection de critères et indicateurs pour une gestion durable des forêts
Who counts most? Assessing human well being in sustainable forest management presents a tool, 'the Who Counts Matrix', for differentiating 'forest actors', or people whose well-being and forest management are intimately intertwined, from other stakeholders. The authors argue for focusing formal a...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Prabhu, R.
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Günter, M.
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McDougall, C.
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Porro, N.M.
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Porro, R.
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[Qui compte le plus? Evaluer le bien etre social dans la gestion durable des forets]
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Qui compte le plus? Evaluer le bien etre social dans la gestion durable des forets
Tropical forests of the Asia-Pacific region are the most heavily threatened from high population density and rapid economic growth. Extensive forest areas have become degraded as a result of over-exploitation and poor management. Unless these degraded forests are rehabilitated, they will come und...
Appanah, S.
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Nair, C.T.S.
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[FORSPA initiative for rehabilitation of tropical forests in Asia-Pacific region]
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FORSPA initiative for rehabilitation of tropical forests in Asia-Pacific region
A study was conducted on forest rehabilitation based on indigenous species at the Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Sarawak. Areas of open abandoned shifting cultivation, man-made mounds, Macaranga secondary forest and shrubby undergrowth were used for trial planting with different types of pla...
Azani, A.M.
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Majid, N.M.
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Meguro, S.
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[Rehabilitation of tropical rainforests based on indigenous species for degraded areas in Sarawak, Malaysia]
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Rehabilitation of tropical rainforests based on indigenous species for degraded areas in Sarawak, Malaysia
This paper explores the "state of the art" of the two-way causal links between poverty alleviation and natural tropical forests. Microimpacts of rising poverty can increase or slow forest loss. At the macrolevel, poverty also has an ambiguous effect, but it is probable that higher income stimulat...
Wunder, Sven
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[Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?]
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Poverty alleviation and tropical forests - what scope for synergies?
In the past decade, understanding of the importance and role of monitoring in tropical forest management has changed significantly. Monitoring is no longer the exclusive purview of forest managers and scientists. Now local people are working with professionals to develop and implement programs to...
Evans, K.
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Guariguata, M.R.
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[Participatory monitoring in tropical forest management: a review of tools, concepts and lessons learned]
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Participatory monitoring in tropical forest management: a review of tools, concepts and lessons learned
A heated debate has been going on for roughly three decades about who should hold stewardship over Asia’s tropical forests. This essay reviews how the debate evolved. Communal forestry advocates like NGOs point out that local groups living in remote corners of countries like Indonesia, Thailand, ...
Jong, W. de
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[Community forestry and the stewardship of tropical forests in Asia]
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Community forestry and the stewardship of tropical forests in Asia
This paper highlights how early experience gained in north Queensland rainforests provided input to the development of Pacific island codes and the code of conduct for logging of indigenous forests in selected South Pacific countries in the mid-1990s. In a number of these countries, the developme...
Applegate, G.
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[Codes of practice and reduced impact logging in tropical forests: an overview]
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Codes of practice and reduced impact logging in tropical forests: an overview