Tropical countries are expanding plantation forestry to develop sustainable wood production systems. Much of this is based on short rotations of exotic species. These systems require large capital investments, represent intensive land use and increase the demands on the soil. To develop options f...
Hopmans, P.
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Prabhu, R.
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Brand, D.
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Nambiar, S.
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Cossalter, C.
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[Development of C&I for tropical plantation forests]
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Development of C&I for tropical plantation forests
The paper outlines some of the key issues relating to the maintenance of 'healthy forests' in the tropics. It examines the concept of sustainable forestry and its corollary the destruction or degradation of forests, before moving on to discuss some of the challenges faced by the international com...
This paper describes an application of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) in evaluating and selecting criteria and indicators (C&I) of forest sustainability. The method was applied on a case study involving a forest area managed under the Community-Based Forest Management System of the Department of E...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Evaluating and selecting criteria and indicators of forest sustainability: a case study on participatory assessment under CBFM in the Philippines]
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Evaluating and selecting criteria and indicators of forest sustainability: a case study on participatory assessment under CBFM in the Philippines
This paper presents different models designed to operationalize the principle of forest sustainability. Concepts such as resource or environmental utilization space, carrying capacity and critical thresholds are defined. The paper also describes an application of the qualitative and quantitative ...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Hartanto, H.
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Prabhu, R.
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Villanueva, T.
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[Multicriteria and critical threshold value analyses in assessing sustainable forestry: model development and application]
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Multicriteria and critical threshold value analyses in assessing sustainable forestry: model development and application
Criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management are important tools to improve the quality of forest management. In most cases they have been developed by experts, but the participation of stakeholders is essential if the C&I are to be locally relevant and practicable. We asked fo...
Pokorny, B.
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Prabhu, R.
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McDougall, C.
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Bauch, R.
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[Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management]
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Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
Participatory approaches to development in general and natural resource management in particular are now a widely accepted management strategy. Multi-agent system (MAS), a computer-based tool, offers a promising approach for multi-stakeholder management systems such as the case involving communit...
Purnomo, H.
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Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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Yasmi, Y.
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[Developing multi-stakeholder forest management scenarios: a multi-agent system simulation approach applied in Indonesia]
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Developing multi-stakeholder forest management scenarios: a multi-agent system simulation approach applied in Indonesia