The authors studied how the role and perceptions of natural forests have changed in seven villages along the Malinau River, East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Local people consider development projects, logging and mining activities, and floods as having the greatest influence on their liveliho...
Basuki, I.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Padmanaba, M.
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Liswanti, N.
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Mulcahy, G.
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Wan, M.
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[The evolving role of tropical forests for local livelihoods in Indonesia]
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The evolving role of tropical forests for local livelihoods in Indonesia
Good natural resource management is scarce in many remote tropical regions. Improved management requires better local consultation, but accessing and understanding the preferences and concerns of stakeholders can be difficult. Scoring, where items are numerically rated in relation to each other, ...
Sheil, Douglas
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Liswanti, N.
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[Scoring the importance of tropical forest landscapes with local people: patterns and insights]
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Scoring the importance of tropical forest landscapes with local people: patterns and insights
A non-technical account in Indonesian of the development and application of methods to assess biodiversity with the involvement of local communities in the forests of Malinau East Kalimantan. The new methods are shown to offer many benefits over more conventional approaches.
Sheil, Douglas
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Liswanti, N.
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Wan, M.
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Heist, M. van
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Samsoedin, I.
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Kartawinata, K.
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Rukmiyati
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Sardjono, M.A.
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[Prioritas lokal dan keanekaragaman hayati dalam lansekap hutan: apa yang penting menurut masyarakat?]
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Prioritas lokal dan keanekaragaman hayati dalam lansekap hutan: apa yang penting menurut masyarakat?
The sustainable management of biodiversity and productivity in forested lands requires an understanding of key interactions between socioeconomic and biophysical factors and their response to environmental change. Appropriate baseline data are rarely available. As part of a broader study on biodi...
Gillison, A.N.
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Liswanti, N.
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Budidarsono, S.
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Tomich, Thomas P.
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[Impact of cropping methods on biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems in Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Impact of cropping methods on biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems in Sumatra, Indonesia
The study's emphasis was on Dayak Merap and Punan people's perception of the importance of forest. A participatory approach using exercises was completed with seven forest dwelling communities in the tropical landscape of Malinau, East Kalimantan. The findings suggest that un-logged forest was th...
Liswanti, N.
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Indawan, I.
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Sumardjo
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Persepsi masyarakat Dayak Merap dan Punan tentang pentingnya hutan di lansekap hutan tropis, Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur]
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Persepsi masyarakat Dayak Merap dan Punan tentang pentingnya hutan di lansekap hutan tropis, Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur
Tropical forest people often suffer from the same processes that threaten biodiversity. An improved knowledge of what is important to local people could improve decision making. This article examines the usefulness of explicitly asking what is important to local people. Our examples draw on biodi...
Sheil, Douglas
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Puri, R.K.
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Wan, M.
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Basuki, I.
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Heist, M. van
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Liswanti, N.
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Rukmiyati
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Rachmatika, I.
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Samsoedin, I.
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[Recognizing local people’s priorities for tropical forest biodiversity]
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Recognizing local people’s priorities for tropical forest biodiversity
Estimates of the area of swidden fallow secondary forest in Indonesia are inaccurate, partly because swidden agricultural practices giving rise to the secondary forest are heterogeneous. Throughout Indonesia, swidden agriculture is evolving into more intensive land use. A mixed secondary forest t...
A succinct account of the development and application of methods to assess biodiversity with the involvement of local communities in the forests of Malinau East Kalimantan. The new approach is shown to offer many benefits over more conventional approaches.
Sheil, Douglas
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Liswanti, N.
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Heist, M. van
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Basuki, I.
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Syaefuddin
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Samsoedin, I.
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Rukmiyati
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Sardjono, M.A.
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[Local priorities and biodiversity]
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Local priorities and biodiversity
Most biodiversity assessment methods tend to sample isolated areas of land cover such as closed forest or local land use mosaics. Contemporary methods of assessing biodiversity are briefly reviewed and focus on the relative roles of the Linnean species and plant functional types (PFTs). Recent ca...
Gillison, A.N.
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Liswanti, N.
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[Assessing biodiversity at landscape level in northern Thailand and Sumatra (Indonesia): the importance of environmental context]
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Assessing biodiversity at landscape level in northern Thailand and Sumatra (Indonesia): the importance of environmental context