In the growing literature at the interface of rural livelihood improvement and conservation of natural forests, two overarching issues stand out: (1) How and to what extent use of forest resources do and can contribute to poverty alleviation and (2) How and to what extent poverty alleviation and ...
Sunderlin, William D.
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Angelsen, A.
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Belcher, B.
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Burgess, P.
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Nasi, Robert
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Santoso, L.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview]
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Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview
Sunderlin, William D.
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[Poverty alleviation through community forestry in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam: an assessment of the potential]
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Poverty alleviation through community forestry in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam: an assessment of the potential
One of the key goals of social forestry is to involve the poor as project beneficiaries. It is possible to measure the degree of attainment of this goal by collecting socioeconomic data before and after project implementation. This approach cannot be applied at the many sites where ex-ante data w...
Sunderlin, William D.
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[An ex-post methodology for measuring poor people's participation in social forestry: an example from Java, Indonesia]
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An ex-post methodology for measuring poor people's participation in social forestry: an example from Java, Indonesia
This paper highlights the spatial linkages of forest quality with poverty incidence and poverty density in Vietnam. Most of the Vietnamese poor live in densely populated river deltas and cities while remote upland areas have the highest poverty incidences, gaps, and severities. Forests of high lo...
Muller, D.
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Epprecht, M.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Where are the poor and where are the trees?: targeting of poverty reduction and forest conservation in Vietnam]
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Where are the poor and where are the trees?: targeting of poverty reduction and forest conservation in Vietnam
In Vietnam, as in many developing countries, there is an emerging interest in knowing to what extent and in what ways poverty alleviation can be achieved through use of forest resources, and to what extent poverty alleviation and maintenance or expansion of forest cover are compatible goals. This...
In Vietnam, as in many developing countries, there is an emerging interest in knowing to what extent and in what ways poverty alleviation can be achieved through use of forest resources, and to what extent poverty alleviation and maintenance or expansion of forest cover are compatible goals. This...
This paper highlights the spatial linkages of forest quality with poverty incidence and poverty density in Vietnam. Most of the Vietnamese poor live in densely populated river deltas and cities while remote upland areas have the highest poverty incidences, gaps, and severities. Forests of high lo...
Muller, D.
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Epprecht, M.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Where are the poor and where are the trees?: targeting of poverty reduction and forest conservation in Vietnam (Vietnamese)]
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Where are the poor and where are the trees?: targeting of poverty reduction and forest conservation in Vietnam (Vietnamese)
This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy option...
Sunderlin, William D.
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Dewi, S.
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Puntodewo, A.
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[Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions]
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Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions
Forests have been declared important for the well-being of the poor because of the kinds of goods and services that they provide. We asked whether forests are important for the poor not only because of the kinds of goods and services they provide, but also because they tend to be located where th...
Sunderlin, William D.
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Dewi, S.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Muller, D.
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Angelsen, A.
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Epprecht, M.
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[Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: a spatial explanation]
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Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: a spatial explanation
Jagger, P.
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Luckert, M.K
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Duchelle, Amy E.
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Lund, J.F.
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Sunderlin, William D.
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[Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty]
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Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty