Who Counts Most? Assessing Human Well-Being in Sustainable Forest Management presents a tool, ‘the Who Counts Matrix’, for differentiating ‘forest actors’, or people whose well-being and forest management are intimately intertwined, from other stakeholders. The authors argue for focusing formal a...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Prabhu, R.
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Günter, M.
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McDougall, C.
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Porro, N.M.
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[Who counts most? assessing human well-being in sustainable forest management]
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Who counts most? assessing human well-being in sustainable forest management
The Basic Assessment Guide for Human Well-Being (or The BAG) focuses on the social criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, a topic that has been the subject of considerable controversy and uncertainty. It is designed for people interested in assessing sustainable forest managem...
The Scoring and Analysis Guide for Assessing Human Well-Being is designed to supplement The BAG and The Grab Bag. It provides a scoring method that can be used with the two manuals, to come to a decision about particular criteria and indicators in particular forest and human settings. Following t...
Salim, A.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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McDougall, C.
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[Scoring and analysis guide for assessing human well-being]
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Scoring and analysis guide for assessing human well-being
The Grab Bag: Supplementary Methods for Assessing Human Well-being is designed to complement The BAG. The Grab Bag is designed for use by social scientists who may find The BAG overly prescriptive. The eight methods presented are either more difficult for non-social scientists to use or, in a cou...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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[The Grab bag: supplementary methods for assessing human well-being]
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The Grab bag: supplementary methods for assessing human well-being
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 proposes a method for identifying and defining the most significant actors in sustain- able forest management. A rationale for the importance of differentiating among various forest stakeholders is first provided. Significant stakeholders identified in forest management units in Kalima...
The studies discussed here were designed to assess previously identified human components of sustainable forest management (SFM). These human components include security of intergenerational access to resources, co-management of forests, and the definition of appropriate stakeholders. A variety o...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Woelfel, J.
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Harwell, E.
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[From bark to hartwood: gender issues in sustainable forest management]
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From bark to hartwood: gender issues in sustainable forest management
This report documents the conduct of the first field tests of criteria and indicators (C&I) at the forest management unit level. Interdisciplinary and international teams of five persons conducted tests of five sets of C&I in four countries (Germany, Indonesia, Brazil, and Cote d’Ivoire). This re...
Prabhu, R.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Venkateswarlu, P.
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Tan, L.C.
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Soekmadi, R.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Testing criteria and indicators for the sustainable management of forests: phase 1. Final Report]
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Testing criteria and indicators for the sustainable management of forests: phase 1. Final Report
Translation of FAO Community Forestry Case Study Series 6: Shifting cultivators of Indonesia: marauders or managers of the forest? Rice production and forest use among the Uma’ Jalan of East Kalimantan (1993). The study examines longitudinal data from four Uma’ Jalan Kenyah Dayak villages in East...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Dudley, R.G.
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Hadikusumah, H.
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Rusydi
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Sakuntaladewi, N.
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Amblani
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[Peladang berpindah di Indonesia: perusak atau pengelola hutan? produksi padi dan pemanfaatan hutan Uma' jalan Kalimantan Timur]
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Peladang berpindah di Indonesia: perusak atau pengelola hutan? produksi padi dan pemanfaatan hutan Uma' jalan Kalimantan Timur