Co-management approaches in forestry have frequently failed to fulfill their promise and have generated unexpected conflicts. This is partly because they intersect with a plurality of interests and concerns, in settings that are more socially, institutionally and ecologically differentiated and d...
Leach, M.
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Fairhead, James
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[Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management]
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Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol raised the hopes of many, that payment for carbon sequestration services would provide a significant incentive for sustainable management practices in industrial forestry in tropical countries. Data to assess how realistic these hopes ar...
Smith, J.
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Applegate, G.
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[Trading forest carbon to promote the adoption of reduced impact logging]
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Trading forest carbon to promote the adoption of reduced impact logging
This study was carried out in Ghana with two communities managing two forest reserves. Two sets of participatory criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management have been defined: the communities themselves decided what their own C&I would be. This gives an example of what partici...
Louvet, S.
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[Criteria & indicators for community forest management: building-up criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management at community level: a case in Ghana]
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Criteria & indicators for community forest management: building-up criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management at community level: a case in Ghana
Community-based fire management in parts of Indonesia can have both positive and negative impacts on the forest environment, and can lead to short-and long-term changes in income. This paper examines two examples from Lampung province in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia and in Sekincau, located in a n...
Suyanto, S.
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Applegate, G.
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Tacconi, L.
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[Community-based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Community-based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra, Indonesia
To determine the regeneration dynamics and growth rate of mahogany in the natural tropical forests of Quintana Roo, oral histories were used to find essentially even-aged stands that had become established naturally between 2 and 75 years ago, after a hurricane, forest fires, or mechanical distru...
Snook, L.K.
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[Regeneracion y crecimiento de la caoba (Swietenia macrophylla King) en selvas de Quintana Roo]
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Regeneracion y crecimiento de la caoba (Swietenia macrophylla King) en selvas de Quintana Roo
Colan, V.
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Catpo, J.
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Pokorny, B.
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Sabogal, C.
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[Costos del aprovechamiento forestal para seis empresas concesionarias en la región Ucayali, Amazonía Peruana]
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Costos del aprovechamiento forestal para seis empresas concesionarias en la región Ucayali, Amazonía Peruana
Many studies have suggested various kinds of forest policies, management planning and practices to help forests adapt to climate change. These recommendations are often generic, based mostly on case studies from temperate countries and rarely from Africa. We argue that policy and management recom...
Kalame, F.B.
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Nkem, J.
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Idinoba, M.
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Kanninen, M.
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[Matching national forest policies and management practices for climate change adaptation in Burkina Faso and Ghana]
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Matching national forest policies and management practices for climate change adaptation in Burkina Faso and Ghana
The research was carried out with the general objectives of contributing to the definition of sustainable forest management in the region of Central America, determining guidelines for the ecological sustainability of forest management that include elements for adaptive management and developing ...
McGinley, K.
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Finegan, B.
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[Evaluacion de la sostenibilidad para el manejo forestal: determinacion de un estandard integrato y adaptativo para la evaluacion de la sostenibilidad ecologica del manejo forestal en Costa Rica]
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Evaluacion de la sostenibilidad para el manejo forestal: determinacion de un estandard integrato y adaptativo para la evaluacion de la sostenibilidad ecologica del manejo forestal en Costa Rica
The research was carried out with the general objectives of contributing to the definition of sustainable forest management in the region of Central America, determining guidelines for the ecological sustainability of forest management that include elements for adaptive management and developing ...
McGinley, K.
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Finegan, B.
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[Evaluations for sustainable forest management: towards an adaptive standard for the evaluation of the ecological sustainability of forest management in Costa Rica]
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Evaluations for sustainable forest management: towards an adaptive standard for the evaluation of the ecological sustainability of forest management in Costa Rica
This chapter reviews the literature on natural resource decentralization with an emphasis on forests in developing countries. This literature can be located at the intersection between discussions of good governance and democracy, development, and poverty alleviation, on the one hand, and common ...