Participatory mapping and GIS are both necessary to model the interactions betwen humans and their environment. A case study from the forest margin in the Congo Basin demonstrates how data from participatory community mapping and other social science methods can be prepared for quantitative model...
Robligio, V.
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Mala, W.A.
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Diaw, C.
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[Mapping landscapes: integrating GIS and social science methods to model human-nature relationships in southern Cameroon]
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Mapping landscapes: integrating GIS and social science methods to model human-nature relationships in southern Cameroon
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
The humid forest zone of Cameroon is part of the biodiversity rich Congo Basin. Until the mid-1990s, the forests of Cameroon were centrally managed, which excluded communities from accessing forest resources and gaining economic benefits from them. In the early 1990s, more participative forest ma...
Jum, C.N.
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Nguiebouri, J.
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Zoa, M.
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Diaw, C.
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[Building broad-based partnership for sustainable forest management: the Model Forest experience in Cameroon]
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Building broad-based partnership for sustainable forest management: the Model Forest experience in Cameroon