This study in the wake of 1990s fire catastrophes identifies and analyzes underlying causes of vegetation fires in eight locations across Borneo and Sumatra. Multidisciplinary and multiscale analysis integrates geospatial technologies with varied social research approaches and participatory mappi...
Dennis, R.A.
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Mayer, J.
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Applegate, G.
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Chokkalingam, U.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Kurniawan, I.
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Lachowski, H.
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Maus, P.
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Permana, R.P.
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Ruchiat, Y.
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Stolle, F.
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Suyanto
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Tomich, Thomas P.
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[Fire, people and pixels: linking social science and remote sensing to understand underlying causes and impacts of fires in Indonesia]
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Fire, people and pixels: linking social science and remote sensing to understand underlying causes and impacts of fires in Indonesia
FLORES (the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System) was initially constructred by 50 people during a multidisciplinary workshop in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, in 1999. It proved that a model of a complex system could be constructed in a participatory way by a diverse team; that it could be do...
Vanclay, J.K.
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Haggith, M.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Participation and model-building: lessons learned from the Bukittinggi workshop]
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Participation and model-building: lessons learned from the Bukittinggi workshop
Carrying out action research with forest dependent communities calls for special attention to their tenure arrangement, power relations, heterogeneity and the governance arrangements of the forests they use or manage. This is what over four years of CIFOR s research on adaptive collaborative mana...
Prabhu, R.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Diaw, C.
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McDougall, C.
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Fisher, R.
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[Action research with local forest users and managers: global lessons from CIFOR’s research on Adaptive Collaborative Management]
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Action research with local forest users and managers: global lessons from CIFOR’s research on Adaptive Collaborative Management
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Achdiawan, R.
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Adnan, H.
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Erni Yuliani, L.
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Balang
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LepMil
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[Gender and natural resource governance indicators: a need to assess and address 'sensitive and taboo' topics]
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Gender and natural resource governance indicators: a need to assess and address 'sensitive and taboo' topics
This chapter reports the results of research in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, originally designed to assess quickly and easily the level and nature of participation by local people in forest management. The authors briefly describe pertinent results from their assessment methods. Although the funct...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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[From "participation" to "rights and responsibilities" in forest management: workable methods and unworkable assumptions in West Kalimantan, Indonesia]
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From "participation" to "rights and responsibilities" in forest management: workable methods and unworkable assumptions in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
This paper briefly reviews CIFOR’s experience using participatory action research working with communities, user groups within communities, and with governments at various levels, in Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, and Zimbabwe. The...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Komarudin, H.
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German, L.
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Nyangas, S.
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Siagian, Y.
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Tanui, J.
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[Participatory forest management, equity and local governance – keynote address]
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Participatory forest management, equity and local governance – keynote address
This paper reports the results of a pre-test in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, of four methods designed to assess the level and nature of participation by local people in forest management quickly and easily. Two of the methods - the "Iterative Continuum Method" (ICM) and the participatory card sort...
This paper provides three types of evidence demonstrating women’s importance in forest management. The first draws on Colfer’s extensive, long term ethnographic experience in the forests of the United States and Indonesia---showing the various ways in which women participate in local, informal fo...