The renewal of the forestry codes of the countries of the Congo Basin in the 90's has legalized management plans for forest concessions. These plans intend, among other objectives, to ensure the sustainable exploitation of commercial species. Sustainability is assessed using the stock recovery ra...
Picard, N.
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Namkosserena, S.
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Yalibanda, Y.
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Baya, F.
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Gourlet-Fleury, S.
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Nasi, Robert
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[Assesing the sustainable management of Entandrophragma cylindricum using the stock recovery rate]
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Assesing the sustainable management of Entandrophragma cylindricum using the stock recovery rate
Ribot, J.C.
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Larson, A.M.
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[Affirmative policy on an uneven playingfield: implications for REDD]
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Affirmative policy on an uneven playingfield: implications for REDD
This chapter uses an historical case study approach to convey some sense of the kinds of research social scientists do at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). It describes CIFOR's work in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, which led to the cre...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Dounias, E.
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Goloubinoff, M.
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López, C.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Understanding forests-people links: the voice of social scientists]
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Understanding forests-people links: the voice of social scientists
Biodiversity conservation, as one criterion for evaluating forest sustainability, is assessed using a fuzzy analytic hierarchical framework organised around three concepts; criteria, indicators, and verifiers. Following this hierarchical framework, a biodiversity conservation index model was deve...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservation]
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A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservation
The paper examines the implications of using criteria and indicators for sustainable management as tools for policy feedback in the context of India's forests. It explores some of the theoretical underpinnings of developing and implementing policy in the face of complexity and establishes a role ...
Prabhu, R.
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[Need for criteria and indicators for SFM as a means of monitoring the compliance of the national forest policy in India]
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Need for criteria and indicators for SFM as a means of monitoring the compliance of the national forest policy in India
Since the mid-1980s, policy discussions aimed at promoting sustainable forest management in Indonesia have focused almost exclusively on reforming the HPH (Hak Pengusahaan Hutan) timber concession system. Policy interventions proposed by the World Bank and other advocates of the “sustainable logg...
Alexiades, M.N.
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Shanley, P.
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[Productos forestales, medios de subsistencia y conservacion: estudios de caso sobre sistemas de manejo de productos forestales no maderables: introduction]
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Productos forestales, medios de subsistencia y conservacion: estudios de caso sobre sistemas de manejo de productos forestales no maderables: introduction
Research and trainings related to reduced-impact logging have been conducted in CIFOR Malinau Research Forest (MRF), East Kalimantan since 1998. Indonesian selective logging and planting system (called TPTI: Tebang Pilih Tanam Indonesia) is a current silvicultural system in Indonesia. It is stipu...
Priyadi, H.
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Gunarso, P.
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Sist, P.
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Dwiprabowo, H.
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[Reduced-impact logging (RIL) research and development in Malinau research forest, East Kalimantan: a challenge of RIL adoption]
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Reduced-impact logging (RIL) research and development in Malinau research forest, East Kalimantan: a challenge of RIL adoption
Jagger, P.
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[Forest sector reforms, livelihoods and sustainability in Western Uganda]
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Forest sector reforms, livelihoods and sustainability in Western Uganda
The development of appropriate indicators of sustainable forest management is attracting considerable interest, although some controversy still exists regarding their utility. The wrong indicators can lead to negative, destructive effects on the systems whose maintenance they allegedly seek to su...
Prabhu, R.
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Ruitenbeek, H.J.
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Boyle, T.J.B.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Between voodoo science and adaptive management: the role and research needs for indicators of sustainable forest management]
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Between voodoo science and adaptive management: the role and research needs for indicators of sustainable forest management