Estimates of the area of swidden fallow secondary forest in Indonesia are inaccurate, partly because swidden agricultural practices giving rise to the secondary forest are heterogeneous. Throughout Indonesia, swidden agriculture is evolving into more intensive land use. A mixed secondary forest t...
A main target of environmental campaigns to save the rainforest has been to stop oil operations from damaging tropical forests. However, there is more to the oil-and-forest story than meets the eye. A comprehensive study of long-run land use changes in eight tropical oil-producing countries shows...
Resin producing agroforestry in the Krui area of Sumatra in Indonesia is presented as an environmentally friendly, income generating land-use system which contributes to both development and conservation objectives. We studied the change in household income portfolios in three communities in the ...
Kusters, K.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Foresta, H. de
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Dietz, T.
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Ros-Tonen, M.A.F.
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Belcher, B.
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Manalu, P.
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Nawir, A.A.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Will agroforests vanish? the case of damar agroforests in Indonesia]
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Will agroforests vanish? the case of damar agroforests in Indonesia
Within the Kyoto Protocol, the clean development mechanism (CDM) is an instrument intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while assisting developing countries in achieving sustainable development, with the multiple goals of poverty reduction, environmental benefits and cost-effective emissio...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Climate change mitigation: a spatial analysis of global land suitability for Clean Development Mechanism afforestation and reforestation]
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Climate change mitigation: a spatial analysis of global land suitability for Clean Development Mechanism afforestation and reforestation
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of leguminous fallows on ethane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), N oxides (N2O and NO) fluxes.We measured CH4, N2O, NO, and CO2 fluxes from improved fallows of Inga edulis and Acacia mangium during two successive fallow periods in an old agricult...
Verchot, Louis V.
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Brienza, S.
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Oliviera, V.C. de
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Mutegi, J.K.
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Cattanio, J.H.
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Davidson, E.A.
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[Fluxes of CH4, CO2, NO, and N2O in an improved fallow agroforestry system in Eastern Amazonia]
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Fluxes of CH4, CO2, NO, and N2O in an improved fallow agroforestry system in Eastern Amazonia
This book critically investigates the proposition that commercialisation of forest products contribute to both enhancing people's income and to conservation of tropical forests, using evidence from a case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It draws the main conclusion that promoting commercia...
Jong, W. de
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[Forest products and local forest management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: implications for conservation and development]
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Forest products and local forest management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: implications for conservation and development
Termites are major decomposers in tropical regions and play an important role in soil processes. This study measured the impact of land-use intensification on the termite assemblage of lowland rain fores in Jambi Province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Termite composition was assessed in s...
Jones, D.T.
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Susilo, F.X.
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Bignell, D.E.
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Hardiwinoto, S.
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Gillison, A.N.
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[Termite assemblage collapse along a land-use intensification gradient in lowland central Sumatra, Indonesia]
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Termite assemblage collapse along a land-use intensification gradient in lowland central Sumatra, Indonesia
Porto de Moz is a small municipality (22.460 inhabitants) bordered by the Xingu and Amazonas Rivers, in the state of Pará. The local economy is based on small-scale agriculture, fishing, and timber extraction. Land ownership is extremely concentrated, and a large part of the municipal lands are u...
In this chapter, the authors discuss the history of decentralization in Brazil, analyze the institutional and legal characteristics of the Brazilian political system concerning decentralization and build a theoretical framework for the case studies. Brazil has experienced cycles of centralization...
Toni, F.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[Municipios e gestao florestal na Amazonia: introducao e marco teorico]
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Municipios e gestao florestal na Amazonia: introducao e marco teorico
A succinct account of the development and application of methods to assess biodiversity with the involvement of local communities in the forests of Malinau East Kalimantan. The new approach is shown to offer many benefits over more conventional approaches.
Sheil, Douglas
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Liswanti, N.
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Heist, M. van
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Basuki, I.
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Syaefuddin
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Samsoedin, I.
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Rukmiyati
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Sardjono, M.A.
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[Local priorities and biodiversity]
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Local priorities and biodiversity