Despite considerable international attention in the field of forest conservation, tropical forests are still disappearing at an unaltered pace. This book gives an economic perspective on the analysis of deforestation. Following a survey of different deforestation definitions, theories and empiric...
This article focuses on the ecological and economic interactions of woodland use in Western Zimbabwe. One of the aims was to investigate the use of modelling to achieve integration among disciplines. The integrated model draws on the models in the different papers in this issue of the journal. Th...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Costanza, R.
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Belt, M. van den
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[Land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: Introduction, overview and synthesis]
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Land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: Introduction, overview and synthesis
The paper describes the changes in Costa Rican forest policy during the last 30 years from deforestation to payments of environmental services. The current services payment system based on forestry law of 1996 is described. The paper discusses positive and negative experiences of the current paym...
Myatt-Hirvonen, O
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Kanninen, M.
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[Costa Rican metsät tuottavat ympäristöpalveluja [Finnish]]
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Costa Rican metsät tuottavat ympäristöpalveluja [Finnish]
The main challenge that the Amazon region poses is what should be done to avoid that the region will follow the fate of other tropical regions: forest destruction and poverty. The fact that most of 80 percent of the region remains as forest leaves us the opportunity to build the way towards susta...
Alencar, A.
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Nepstad, D.C.
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McGrath, D.
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Moutinho, P.
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Pacheco, P.
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Carmen Vera Diaz, M. del
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Soares Filho, B.
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[Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica"]
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Desmatamento na Amazonia: indo alem da "emergencia cronica"
Newman, M.F.
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Burgess, P.F.
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Whitmore, T.C.
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[Manuals of dipterocarps for foresters: Borneo island light hardwoods: anisoptera, parashorea, shorea (red, white and yellow meranti)]
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Manuals of dipterocarps for foresters: Borneo island light hardwoods: anisoptera, parashorea, shorea (red, white and yellow meranti)
That forest people intimately depend on forests for their livelihoods is widely accepted and, so it is predicted, the rapid pace of deforestation in the humid tropics will soon lead them into utter destitution or, worse, drive them into cities. Socio-economic studies recently carried out among Pu...
Newman, M.F.
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Burgess, P.F.
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Whitmore, T.C.
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[Manuals of dipterocarps for foresters: Borneo island medium and heavy hardwoods]
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Manuals of dipterocarps for foresters: Borneo island medium and heavy hardwoods
Postharvest losses (PHL) result in direct food and income losses to farmers and consumers globally. PHL reduction strategies offer unique opportunities to contribute to sustainable food systems for increased food security and farm incomes for more than 200 million food insecure people in sub-Saha...
Kikulwe, E.
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Okurut, S.
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Ajambo, S.
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Nowakunda, K.
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Stoian, D.
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Naziri, D.
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[Postharvest losses and their determinants: A challenge to creating a sustainable cooking banana value chain in Uganda.]
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Postharvest losses and their determinants: A challenge to creating a sustainable cooking banana value chain in Uganda.
Researchers and decision-makers lack a shared understanding of resilience, and practical applications in environmental resource management are rare. Here, we define social-ecological resilience as a property of social-ecological systems that includes at least three main characteristics — resistan...
Research was undertaken on the economics of crop-livestock integration in the Northern Guinea Savannah of Nigeria. The aim of the study was to quantify the reciprocal contributions of crops and livestock and also the factors affecting the integration of crops and livestock production in the area....
Ndubuisi, A.
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Zeddies, J.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Smith, J.M.
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[Economic analysis of croplivestock integration in the northern Guinea savannah of Nigeria]
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Economic analysis of croplivestock integration in the northern Guinea savannah of Nigeria