Estimating the incomes of people whose livelihoods depend on the forests is a key to understanding their well being and the use of the forest. Yet there has been little agreement about the methods to undertake such assessment. This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the methods availab...
Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasize internal dynamics. We show how scenario methods can be used to 1) enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholder...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Buck, L.
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[Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting]
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Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting
The CIFOR-ITTO project's general objective is to achieve long-term forest management for multiple uses, integrating social and silvicultural objectives in Malinau, Kalimantan, Indonesia. To achieve this objective there are complicated issues to be dealt with and requires integrated research that ...
Kartawinata, K.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Levang, P.
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Sist, P.
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[Overview of approaches and methods]
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Overview of approaches and methods
The purpose of this concept paper is to propose a methodology for enchancing the policy-making process in local forest management (LFM). Local forest management is defined here as the involvement of people living near a forest in activities intended to maintain or enhance the forest and improve l...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Decision-making among diverse interests: the use of future scenarios in local forest management policy, a proposed methodology]
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Decision-making among diverse interests: the use of future scenarios in local forest management policy, a proposed methodology