To meet the challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability, a more integrated approach to research is required. Such an approach must embrace the complexity of systems and redirect research towards the greater inclusion of issues such as participatory approaches, multi-scale analysis and ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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[Integrated natural resource management: linking productivity, the environment and development]
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Integrated natural resource management: linking productivity, the environment and development
This paper examines the needs for forest science for the 21st century and ways of organising research to meet them. The world of the 21st century will be one of knowledge-based societies and globalised economies. The need for global stewardship of the environmental and social values of forests is...
Byron, R.N.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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[Organising forestry research to meet the challenges of the information age]
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Organising forestry research to meet the challenges of the information age
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Hagmann, J.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Stroud, Ann
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Thomas, R.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[What kind of research and development is needed for natural resource management?]
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What kind of research and development is needed for natural resource management?
The world is moving towards knowledge-based societies. Economies are globalising. The global public goods value of forests is being recognised at the same time that traditional role of state forest agencies in production forestry is declining, in part being taken over by multi-national corporatio...
Byron, R.N.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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[Forest science research needs and priorities for sustainable forest management]
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Forest science research needs and priorities for sustainable forest management
Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Byron, R.N.
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[Forest resources, science and technology, and sustainable development]
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Forest resources, science and technology, and sustainable development
Long and consultative planning processes have been undertaken to develop priorities for strategic forestry research in Africa. The results have contributed to the development of CIFOR's medium-term plan, so that there seems to be a good match between Africa's needs and CIFOR's intentions. The pol...
Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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[Forestry research within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research]
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Forestry research within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
There is a considerable gap between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. Science is often failing to inform the practice of conservation, which remains largely experience-based. The main reason is the poor accessibili...
Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Minh-Ha, H.
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[Evidence-based conservation: lessons from the Lower Mekong]
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Evidence-based conservation: lessons from the Lower Mekong