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Rhee, S.[De facto decentralization and community conflicts in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: explanations from local history and implications for community forestry]De facto decentralization and community conflicts in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: explanations from local history and implications for community forestry

Forest devolution is meant to provide communities with greater decision-making power over the use and future of tropical forests. However, devolution policies have not always had the intended effect; in some cases they have caused or furthered the disenfranchisement of the poor, the creation of o...


Evans, K.Jong, W. deCronkleton, P.[Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities]Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities

Community-based forest management has been promoted widely to enable local communities capture the value of the forests they inhabit. Most community forests have focused on non-timber forest products. In Cameroon, the 1994 Forest Law introduced community forestry with a strong emphasis on timber ...


Blas, D.E. dePérez, M.R.Sayer, Jeffrey A.Lescuyer, G.Nasi, RobertKarsenty, A.[External influences on and conditions for community logging management in Cameroon]External influences on and conditions for community logging management in Cameroon

This chapter concludes from a study of the impacts of forest devolution policies in China, India and the Philippines that devolution has had significant impacts, but mostly on increasing forest cover. Changes in livelihoods were mixed, and control over forests was little changed. In some cases, d...


Edmunds, D.Wollenberg, Eva K.Contreras, A.P.Liu DachangKelkar, G.Nathan, D.Sarin, M.Singh, N.M.[Local forest management: conclusion]Local forest management: conclusion

In 2002, mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) was listed on Appendix II of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). This requires that all producing countries define and implement sustainable production systems for mahogany, the most commercially important neotropical timb...


Snook, L.K.Santos Jimenez, M.Carreon Mundo, M.Chan Rivas, C.May Ek, F.J.Mas Kantun, P.Nolasco Morales, A.Hernández Hernández, C.Escobar Ruiz, C.[Managing natural forests for sustainable harvests of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla): experiences in Mexico's community forests]Managing natural forests for sustainable harvests of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla): experiences in Mexico's community forests

Over the last 20 years, transfer of the management of natural resources to local populations has been a major trend in the tropics. Many of these initiatives today incorporate the development of monitoring systems based on Criteria and Indicators (C&I), used to gauge environmental, socio-economic...


García, C.A.Lescuyer, G.[Monitoring, indicators and community based forest management in the tropics: pretexts or red herrings?]Monitoring, indicators and community based forest management in the tropics: pretexts or red herrings?

This book for the first time brings together a suite of effective methods as a guidance on how to deal with the needs of local communities and biodiversity in landscapes required by decision makers. The techniques provide conventional biophysical descriptions of the landscape and explicitly relat...


Sheil, DouglasPuri, R.K.Basuki, I.Heist, M. vanWan, M.Liswanti, N.RukmiyatiSardjono, M.A.Samsoedin, I.Sidiyasa, K.D.ChrisandiniPermana, E.Angi, E.M.Gatzweiler, F.Johnson, B.Wijaya, A.[Explorando la biodiversidad, el medio ambiente y las perspectivas de los pobladores en areas boscosas: metodos para la valoracion multidisciplinaria del paisaje]Explorando la biodiversidad, el medio ambiente y las perspectivas de los pobladores en areas boscosas: metodos para la valoracion multidisciplinaria del paisaje
Prabhu, R.Matose, F.[Adversity and the adaptive possibility of local communities: Setting the scene]Adversity and the adaptive possibility of local communities: Setting the scene

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