A multidisciplinary team evaluated the role and use of exotic and indigenous trees in household livelihood systems in four villages, typical of three distinctly different ecosystems in Quang Tri Province, central Viet Nam. While in each case farmers used a great variety of trees and plants to mee...
Midgley, S.J.
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Byron, R.N.
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Chandler, F.C.
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Ha Huy Thinh
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Tran Hung Son
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Hoang Hong Hanh
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[Do plants need passport?: a socio-economic study of the role of exotic tree and other plants species in Quang Tri province, Vietnam]
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Do plants need passport?: a socio-economic study of the role of exotic tree and other plants species in Quang Tri province, Vietnam
Devolution of authority over natural resource management is now well advanced for the mega-fauna in Zimbabwe, through the CAMPFIRE program. We ask whether models like CAMPFIRE can be applied to a broader spectrum of woodland resources. Problems in applying CAMPFIRE to woodland resources relate to...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Byron, R.N.
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Madzudzo, Pauline H.E.
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Matose, F.
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Wily, L.
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[Moving to local control of woodland resources - Can CAMPFIRE go beyond the mega-fauna?]
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Moving to local control of woodland resources - Can CAMPFIRE go beyond the mega-fauna?
This study outlines a case where the behaviour of farmers in accumulating capital, rather than their poverty as commonly assumed, results in deforestation. Fieldwork was undertaken in the Upper Kerinci region of the island of Sumatera, Indonesia. A financial analysis of the "net income" streams r...
Wibowo, D.H.
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Tisdell, C.A.
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Byron, R.N.
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[Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia]
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Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia
Numerous published economic models of tropical deforestation are reviewed, in four categories: - a Neo-Malthusian approach, often nebulous and imprecise in terms of causal processes, which sees population pressure as the underlying cause of tropical deforestation; - those focusing on government f...
Soekartiko, B
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Byron, R.N.
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[Potential for application and demonstration of SFM at CIFOR's research forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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Potential for application and demonstration of SFM at CIFOR's research forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Proposals for a Legally Binding Global Convention on Forests, debated and rejected at the 1992 UNCED Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, re-surface periodically at international fora. The case for concerted global action rests on the existence of ‘international problems’, where this is the only effec...
Glück, P.
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Tarasoffsky, R.G.
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Byron, R.N.
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Tikkanen, I.
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[Options for strengthening the international legal regime for forests: a report prepared for the European Commission under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 (proposal for a legally-binding instrument on forest)]
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Options for strengthening the international legal regime for forests: a report prepared for the European Commission under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 (proposal for a legally-binding instrument on forest)
This paper explains the ways in which, and the extent to which, public policy measures might be used to reduce inappropriate tropical deforestation.Inappropriate deforestation is a signifanct problem: 1. deforestation generally causes negative externalities that generate cost to society not refle...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Byron, R.N.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Public policies to reduce inappropriate tropical deforestation]
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Public policies to reduce inappropriate tropical deforestation
The importance of forest products to households living in or near forests has been increasingly recognized. Estimates of numbers of people who in some way rely on forests, for survival or livelihoods, vary widely. Yet numbers alone do not reveal the forests' importance to diverse users. A typolog...
Technology will help to address the challenges for sustainable forestry in the 21st century. Some of the challenges will include the shift of production from native forest to plantations in areas of comparative advantage, more efficient processing delinking end-use products from raw wood characte...
Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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Byron, R.N.
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[Technologies for sustainable forest management: challenges for the 21st century. Commonwealth Forestry Congress, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, May 1997]
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Technologies for sustainable forest management: challenges for the 21st century. Commonwealth Forestry Congress, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, May 1997