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Kothari, A.Cooney, R.Hunter, D.Mackinnon, K.Muller, E.Nelson, F.Oli, K.P.Pandey, S.Rasheed, T.Vavrova, L.[Managing resource use and development]Managing resource use and development

This paper examines the validity of data from the 12 case studies in six Central African parks cited by Cernea and Schmidt-Soltau (2003, 2006) and Schmidt-Soltau (2003). The same data are used for multiple papers to support the authors’ arguments relating to the human welfare costs of protected a...


Maisels, S.Sunderland, T.C.H.Curran, B.Loebenstein, K. vonOates, J.Usongo, L.Dunn, A.Asaha, S.Balinga, M.Defo, L.Telfer, P.[Central Africa’s protected areas and the purported displacement of people: a first critical review of existing data]Central Africa’s protected areas and the purported displacement of people: a first critical review of existing data

This chapter looks at the municipal government of Riberalta, Bolivia and its role in forest management. Riberalta is located in the northern Bolivian Amazon and depends heavily on Brazil nuts harvesting and processing, as well as logging and agriculture. The traditional local elite has maintained...


Kaimowitz, D.Bojanic Helbingen, A.J.[Riberalta: extractivistas bajo una élite tradicional]Riberalta: extractivistas bajo una élite tradicional

This chapter summarizes CIFOR’s work on social criteria and indicators (C&I), developed within commercial establishments oriented toward timber harvesting. These C&I are then examined from the point of view of protected areas, based on Colfer’s experience managing an Indonesian wildlife reserve i...


Colfer, C.J.P.Prabhu, R.Wollenberg, Eva K.McDougall, C.Edmunds, D.Kowero, G.S.[Toward social criteria and indicators for protected areas: one cut on adaptive co-management]Toward social criteria and indicators for protected areas: one cut on adaptive co-management

Extensive areas of forest in the tropics have been legally classified as protected areas: however, in many cases it has been difficult to achieve their conservation. This paper argues that the priority for forest conservation should not be maximising the area totally protected but rather to focus...


Sayer, Jeffrey A.[Forest protected areas: time is running out]Forest protected areas: time is running out

China has serious environmental problems but China has begun to address some of them. The data for environmental assesments of China's forests are sparse at best, therefore, the authors survey general impressions before focusing on one representative topic, the loss of biodiveristy that necessari...


Sayer, Jeffrey A.Changjin Sun[Impacts of policy reforms on forestry environments and biodiversity]Impacts of policy reforms on forestry environments and biodiversity

This paper analyzes the growing role of municipal governments in Bolivia and Nicaragua in forest-related issues on the basis of some thirty case studies. It first provides background information on forest issues and legislation concerning municipal involvement in forest issues in the two countrie...


Kaimowitz, D.Pacheco, P.Mendoza, R.Barahona, T.[Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua]Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua

In the 1980s, Nicaragua's Sandinista government faced armed mestizo and indigenous insurgencies in much of the nation's central and eastern region. After the Sandinistas lost the 1990 elections, the in-coming government signed peace agreements with the insurgents and facilitated their return to c...


Kaimowitz, D.Faune, A.[Contras and comandantes: armed movements and forest conservation in Nicaragua's Bosawas biosphere reserve]Contras and comandantes: armed movements and forest conservation in Nicaragua's Bosawas biosphere reserve

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