Responding to the decline of game, fruit and fiber, post-logging, communities along the Capim River in Pará, Brazil, requested that research be initiated into the value of non-timber forest products. As a first step, an ethnobotanical inventory of one hectare of mature terra firme forest was cond...
This article explores the changing livelihoods and resource management choices of three rural communities in a dynamic logging frontier region along the Capim River in the eastern Amazonian State of Pará, Brazil. A study of 13 successive logging events during a twenty-year time span in a 3,000 ha...
Medina, G.
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Shanley, P.
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[Big trees, small favors: loggers and communities in Amazonia]
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Big trees, small favors: loggers and communities in Amazonia
The potential for combining timber and non-timber forest product extraction has been examined in the context of diversified forest management. Many tropical forests are exploited both commercially for timber and by forest-dependent communities for non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Divergences b...
Rist, L.
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Shanley, P.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Ndoye, O.
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Liswanti, N.
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Tieguhong, J.C.
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[The impacts of selective logging on non-timber forest products of livelihood importance]
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The impacts of selective logging on non-timber forest products of livelihood importance