Indonesia has extensive areas of post extraction secondary forests and degraded lands arising from intensive exploitation of forest resources in recent decades. Using the area of forests resulting from selective logging practices as an estimate, in year 2000, post extraction secondary forests cov...
Kartawinata, K.
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Riswan, S.
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Gintings, A.N.
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Puspitojati, T.
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[An overview of post-extraction secondary forests in Indonesia]
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An overview of post-extraction secondary forests in Indonesia
Most forests in tropical Nepal are secondary, resulting largely from episodes of large-scale timber harvesting in the past along with accumulated small scale extraction of timber and non-timber forest products by local people over centuries. Currently in the forest depleted stage, remaining tropi...
Kanel, K.R.
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Shrestha, K.
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[Tropical secondary forests in Nepal and their importance to local people]
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Tropical secondary forests in Nepal and their importance to local people
Community managed forest systems embody a considerable portion of the wisdom, knowledge, and practical skills and management necessary for the sustainability of forest resources globally. These systems, however, are under threat in many ways, including from the rapid rate of change of their polit...
Ritchie, B.
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McDougall, C.
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Haggith, M.
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Burford de Oliveira, N.
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[Criteres et indicateurs de durabilite dans les paysages forestiers geres par les communautes: guide introductif]
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Criteres et indicateurs de durabilite dans les paysages forestiers geres par les communautes: guide introductif
Criteria and indicators to evaluate forest management (C&I) facilitate the understanding of and communication about sustainability. Thus an increasing number of national and international initiatives defined C&I sets for certification, monitoring and auditing of forest management. Because of the ...
Pokorny, B.
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Sabogal, C.
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Camino, Ronnie de
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[Metodologias para evaluar la aplicacion de criterios e indicadores en el manejo forestal de bosques tropicales en America Latina]
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Metodologias para evaluar la aplicacion de criterios e indicadores en el manejo forestal de bosques tropicales en America Latina
This brief article documents author's reasons for considering the answer to be "yes." She draws first on her extensive ethnographic experience in forest communities in the US and in several forested areas of Indonesia, with examples. Her second source of conviction in this view comes from her inv...
This brief article begins with a summary of CIFOR's work on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (C&I). It then discusses how CIFOR programs combined to form the program called Local People, Devolution and Adaptive Collaborative Management of Forests". It briefly describes th...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Center for International Forestry Research
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[Social aspects of tropical forest management]
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Social aspects of tropical forest management
These proceedings present results from research done for a decade in the CIFOR project Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantations. They include papers presented at a workshop in Brazil in November 2004 and then updated at a workshop in November 2006 at Bogor, Indonesia. These papers...
Nambiar, E.K.S.
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[Site management and productivity in tropical plantation forests: Proceedings of Workshops in Piracicaba (Brazil) 22-26 November 2004 and Bogor (Indonesia) 6-9 November 2006]
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Site management and productivity in tropical plantation forests: Proceedings of Workshops in Piracicaba (Brazil) 22-26 November 2004 and Bogor (Indonesia) 6-9 November 2006
Thailand's forest has been steadily declining during the last 50 years. A logging ban in the natural forests of 1989 has not been efficient in reversing this trend. However, the policy is to afforest the country to 40% cover 25% should be protected forest and 15% for production. To consolidate th...
Rasmuseen, J.N.
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Kaosa-ard, A.
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Boon, T.E.
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Diaw, C.
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Edwards, K.
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Kadyschuk, S.
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Kaosa-ard, M.
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Lang, T.
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Preechapanya, P.
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Rerkasem, K.
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Rune, F.
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[For whom and for what? principles, criteria, and indicators for sustainable forest resources management in Thailand]
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For whom and for what? principles, criteria, and indicators for sustainable forest resources management in Thailand
In the past in Africa, State forest administration took nominal control of local forest management from rural populations. This control, based on a European concept of management, gradually deteriorated and the methods of classical forest management are no longer suited to existing conditions. Th...
Antona, M.
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Babin, D.
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[Multiple interest accommodation in African forest management projects: between pragmatism and theoretical coherence]
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Multiple interest accommodation in African forest management projects: between pragmatism and theoretical coherence