Several Indonesian plywood industry companies involved in logging are beginning to adopt improved harvesting practices. A number of organizations and individuals have undertaken analyses of the costs and impacts of implementing selected reduced impact logging (RIL) components. These analyses incl...
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
Large scale, catastrophic fires have become a significant and visible part of the tropical forest landscape in the past two decades with increased commercial exploitation of forests, forest conversion and increased population pressure. Secondary forests are an increasingly prominent feature of tr...
Dennis, R.A.
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Hoffmann, A.
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Applegate, G.
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Gemmingen, G. von
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Kartawinata, K.
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[Large-scale fire: creator and destroyer of secondary forests in Western Indonesia]
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Large-scale fire: creator and destroyer of secondary forests in Western Indonesia
Under the Kyoto Protocol industrialized countries will be able to meet carbon emission reduction commitments by financing forestry projects that sequester carbon in developing countries. While this mechanism would compensate for missing markets in forest environmental services, it could also enab...
Smith, J.
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Applegate, G.
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[Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management?]
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Could payments for forest carbon contribute to improved tropical forest management?