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
Places experience forest transitions when declines in forest cover cease and recoveries in forest cover begin. Forest transitions have occurred in two, sometimes overlapping circumstances. In some places economic development has created enough non-farm jobs to pull farmers off of the land, thereb...
Rudel, Thomas K.
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Coomes, O.T.
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Moran, E.
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Achard, F.
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Angelsen, A.
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Jianchu Xu
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Lambin, E.F.
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[Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change]
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Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change
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?
The current theory and narrative states that democratic decentralization of forest management leads to sustainable forest management and improved livelihoods. Three assumptions underlie this theory and narrative: i) democratic decentralization is a means of institutionalizing and scaling up commu...
Tacconi, L.
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Siagian, Y.
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Syam, R.
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[On the theory of decentralization, forests and livelihoods]
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On the theory of decentralization, forests and livelihoods
The most prominent international responses to climate change focus on mitigation (reducing the accumulation of greenhouse gases) rather than adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of society and ecosystems). However, with climate change now inevitable, adaptation is gaining importance in the poli...
Locatelli, Bruno
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Kanninen, M.
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Brockhaus, M.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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Santoso, H.
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[Face à un avenir incertain: comment les forêts et les populations peuvent s’adapter au changement climatique]
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Face à un avenir incertain: comment les forêts et les populations peuvent s’adapter au changement climatique
In this paper, I illustrate the dynamics of frontier development in the Redencao area in southern Para, one of the oldest agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon. This frontier has evolved from a landscape initially dominated by large-scale corporations investing in cattle ranching, to ano...
Pacheco, P.
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[Agrarian change, cattle ranching and deforestation: Assessing their linkages in Southern Para]
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Agrarian change, cattle ranching and deforestation: Assessing their linkages in Southern Para
Barr, C.
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Dermawan, A.
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Purnomo, H.
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Komarudin, H.
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[Kesiapan untuk menghadapi REDD: tata kelola keuangan dan pelajaran dari Dana Reboisasi (DR) di Indonesia]
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Kesiapan untuk menghadapi REDD: tata kelola keuangan dan pelajaran dari Dana Reboisasi (DR) di Indonesia
Conservation efforts at local, regional, and global scales often focus on threatened species despite recent calls to adopt more equitable and potentially more economically rational approaches. Critics contend that conservation planning centered only on threatened species fails to deliver cost-eff...
Drummond, S.P.
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Wilson, K.A.
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Meijaard, E.
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Watts, M.
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Dennis, R
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Christy, L.
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Possingham, H. P.
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[Influence of a threatened-species focus on conservation planning]
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Influence of a threatened-species focus on conservation planning
This infobrief provides an early snapshot of 17 REDD+ pilots under development in Indonesia in mid 2009. There is great variety in and experimentation by the proponents of REDD+ pilots. Three key dimensions useful for categorising early pilots are: 1) degree of spatial planning and heterogeneity ...
Madeira, E.M.
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Sills, E.
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Brockhaus, M.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Kanninen, M.
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[What is a REDD+ pilot?: a preliminary typology based on early actions in Indonesia]
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What is a REDD+ pilot?: a preliminary typology based on early actions in Indonesia
This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Through a meta-analysis of published case-studies, we compare land use/ cover change data for these two broad types of forest management and assess their performan...
Porter-Bolland, L.
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Ellis, E.A.
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Guariguata, M.R.
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Ruiz Mallén, I.
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Negrete-Yankelevich, S.
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Reyes García, Victoria
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[Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics]
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Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics