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
The ongoing expansion of oil palm plantations in the humid tropics, especially in Southeast Asia, is generating considerable concern and debate. Amid industry and environmental campaigners’ claims, it can be hard to perceive reality. Is oil palm a valuable route to sustainable development or a co...
Sheil, Douglas
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Casson, A.
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Meijaard, E.
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Gaskell, J.
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Sunderland-Groves, J.
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Wertz, K.
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Kanninen, M.
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[The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?]
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The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial proportion of the world's population and are the source of many internationally traded commodities. They remain ...
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
We investigated how demand for war derived scrap metal influenced livelihoods, forest use and environmental outcomes near the biodiverse Annamite Mountains in Central Vietnam. We focused on one community, Khe Tran, and interviewed local villagers, active collectors from other communes, traders an...
Boissiere, M.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Basuki, I.
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[A booming trade?: how collection of war residues affects livelihoods and forest in Vietnam]
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A booming trade?: how collection of war residues affects livelihoods and forest in Vietnam