How does an oil boom affect the forest cover of tropical oil exporting-countries? Are they more or less likely than non-oil countries to experience forest loss? What macro-economic linkages and policies are decisive? This article summarises research on land-use changes in eight tropical developin...
Wunder, Sven
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages]
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Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages
This paper describes the effects of the colonial and post-colonial land policies and legislation on the management and utilisation of natural woodlands in Malawi and Zimbabwe. The two countries share similar patterns of land ownership; customary or tribal trust land designated by colonial governm...
Mataya, C.
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Gondo, P.
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Kowero, G.S.
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[Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development]
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Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development
People have tastes in landscapes. This paper provides examples of different groups’ with lanscape tastes. It discusses, for instance, the Javanese preference for symmetry vis-à-vis the dayak’s appreciation of wildness, the ecologists’ enjoyment of natural chaos compared to the plantation speciali...
The sustainable management of biodiversity and productivity in forested lands requires an understanding of key interactions between socioeconomic and biophysical factors and their response to environmental change. Appropriate baseline data are rarely available. As part of a broader study on biodi...
Gillison, A.N.
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Liswanti, N.
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Budidarsono, S.
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Tomich, Thomas P.
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[Impact of cropping methods on biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems in Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Impact of cropping methods on biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems in Sumatra, Indonesia
This article discuss a search for a common understanding of three environmental problems linked to land use change in Southeast Asia: smoke pollution, degradation of biodiversity functions, and degradation of watershed functions. The objectives of this special issue are to identify usable data an...
Tomich, Thomas P.
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Chomitz, K.
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Francisco, H.
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Izac, N.A.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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Ratnere, B.D.
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Thomas, D.E.
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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[Policy analysis and environmental problems at different scales: asking the right questions]
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Policy analysis and environmental problems at different scales: asking the right questions
Community forests and protected areas have each been proposed as strategies to stop deforestation. These management strategies should be regarded as hypotheses to be evaluated for their effectiveness in particular places. We evaluated the community-forestry hypothesis and the protected-area hypot...
Bray, D.B.
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Durán, E.
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Ramos, V.H.
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Mas, J.F.
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Velásquez, A.
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McNab, R.B.
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Barry, D.M.
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Radachowsky, J.
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[Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, and Protected Areas in the Maya Forest]
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Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, and Protected Areas in the Maya Forest
Senda, Trinity S.
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Robinson, Lance W.
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Gachene, C K.K
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Kironchi, G.
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Doyo, J.
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[An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems]
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An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems
According to the latest report of the Intergovern- mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), emissions must be cut by 41–72 % below 2010 levels by 2050 for a likely chance of containing the global mean temperature increase to 2 ◦C. The AFOLU sector (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use) contribu...
Román Cuesta, Rosa Maria
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Herold, Martin
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Ogle, Stephen M.
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Li C
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Poulter B
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Martius, Christopher
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Stuiver J
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Bruin, S. de
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[Hotspots of gross emissions from the land use sector: patterns, uncertainties, and leading emission sources for the period 2000–2005 in the tropics]
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Hotspots of gross emissions from the land use sector: patterns, uncertainties, and leading emission sources for the period 2000–2005 in the tropics
The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in soils under a yam cropping system in four agroecologies of Nigeria was investigated. Soil samples were collected from yam fields at Onne (humid forest, high rainfall area), Ibadan (derived savanna), Abuja (Guinea savanna) and Ubiaja (humid for...
Dare, M.O.
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Abaidoo, R.C.
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Fagbola, O.
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Asiedu, Robert
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[Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of yam (Dioscorea spp.) cropping systems in four agroecologies of Nigeria]
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Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of yam (Dioscorea spp.) cropping systems in four agroecologies of Nigeria
Reduced river runoff and expected upstream infrastructural developments are both potential threats to irrigation water availability for the downstream countries in Central Asia. Although it has been recurrently mentioned that a reduction in water supply will hamper irrigation in the downstream co...
Bekchanov, Maksud
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Lamers, J.P.A.
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[Economic costs of reduced irrigation water availability in Uzbekistan (Central Asia)]
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Economic costs of reduced irrigation water availability in Uzbekistan (Central Asia)