The book includes a selection of 37 contributions (all in the original language - 16 in Portuguese, 13 in English and 8 in Spanish - but with abstracts in English) presented to the International Symposium “Integrated Management of Neotropical Rainforests by Industries and Communities: Applying Re...
Sabogal, C.
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Macedo Silva, J.N.
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[Manejo integrado de florestas umidas neotropicais por industrias e comunidades: aplicando resultados de pesquisa, envolvendo atores e definindo politicas publicas: Simposio Internacional da IUFRO, Belem PA, Brazil, 4-7 Decembre, 2000]
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Manejo integrado de florestas umidas neotropicais por industrias e comunidades: aplicando resultados de pesquisa, envolvendo atores e definindo politicas publicas: Simposio Internacional da IUFRO, Belem PA, Brazil, 4-7 Decembre, 2000
One of the main technical knowledge gaps for sustainable timber production in tropical forests is the lack of reliable information on tree growth, which is indispensable for defining cutting cycles and estimating harvest volumes. We applied dendroecological methods to measure and model the diamet...
Martínez Prera, A.
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Finegan, B.
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Snook, L.K.
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[Using dendroecology to determine growth rates of mahogany and cedar in community forestry in Guatemala]
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Using dendroecology to determine growth rates of mahogany and cedar in community forestry in Guatemala
Es difícil imaginar que el clima no sea importante para los mixtecos, dado que se llaman a sí mismos “el Pueblo de la Lluvia”. El elemento que más caracteriza el clima de esta región es la alternancia entre la estación de lluvia y la estatción de sequía. El principal cultivo de subsistencia, el m...
Katz, E.
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[Ritos, representaciones y meteorología en la Tierra de la Lluvia (Mixteca, México)]
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Ritos, representaciones y meteorología en la Tierra de la Lluvia (Mixteca, México)
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy option...
This book is a compilation of the abstracts of in-house and external publications produced in the year 2002 by CIFOR scientists and their collaborators. The abstracts are grouped into seven themes: general, biodiversity, forest governance and community forestry, forest management, non-timber fore...
Stoian, D.
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Rodas, A.
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[Successful community stewardship of tropical forests: Evidence from community forest concessions in Petén, Guatemala]
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Successful community stewardship of tropical forests: Evidence from community forest concessions in Petén, Guatemala
This report presents the results of a socio-economic study conducted in three communities in Nicaragua's North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN), as part of the fourth component (Value Chains) of the project "Forestry to enhance livelihoods and sustain forests in Mesoamerica:
How institut...
Arguello Perez, J.
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Stoian, D.
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[Socio-economic benefits of community forestry in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. Report submitted to the ADA Community Forestry Project in Mesoamerica.]
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Socio-economic benefits of community forestry in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. Report submitted to the ADA Community Forestry Project in Mesoamerica.
Stoian, D.
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Rodas, A.
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[Optimizing synergies between livelihoods development and forest conservation: evidence from Community Forest Enterprise Development in Peten, Guatemala.]
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Optimizing synergies between livelihoods development and forest conservation: evidence from Community Forest Enterprise Development in Peten, Guatemala.