Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) have been a pervasive, although widely criticized, approach to tropical conservation for more than 20 years. More recently, international conservation discourse has shifted away from project-based approaches and towards reducing emissions f...
Blom, B.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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[Getting REDD to work locally: lessons learned from integrated conservation and development projects]
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Getting REDD to work locally: lessons learned from integrated conservation and development projects
Conservation organisations are faced with the complexities between protecting forests, developing local livelihoods and strengthening institutions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the strategies employed by organisations to implement conservation and development, and to assess how project pro...
Preece, L.
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Herrero Cangas, B.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Achdiawan, R.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Stacey, Natasha
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[Losing less and winning more: project strategies to negotiate between conservation and development in the Lower Mekong]
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Losing less and winning more: project strategies to negotiate between conservation and development in the Lower Mekong
This article reports on findings from a research project, in more than 30 sites in 10 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, aimed at analyzing cases where changes in formal tenure rights for forest-based communities had recently occurred or were in process. Though by far largest proportion...
Larson, A.M.
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Barry, D.M.
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Dahal, G.R.
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[New Rights for forest-based communities?: understanding processes of forest tenure reform]
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New Rights for forest-based communities?: understanding processes of forest tenure reform
Landscape approaches have been identified as a way to address conservation and development issues in biodiversityrich tropical areas. The author conducted a literature review of 51 case studies selected by an independent analyst to evaluate how these approaches have been applied. The case studies...
Pfund, J.L.
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[Landscape-scale research for conservation and development in the tropics: fighting persisting challenges]
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Landscape-scale research for conservation and development in the tropics: fighting persisting challenges
Durante las dos últimas décadas, varios proyectos de carbono enfocados en la aforestación y reforestación (A/R) han sido implementados en América Latina, y en otros países en desarrollo, sobre todo a pequeña escala. Aunque siendo elegibles para ser financiados por el Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpi...
Borner, J.
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Wunder, Sven
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Armas, A.
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[Pagos por carbono en América Latina: de la experiencia de proyectos pilotos a la implementación a gran escala]
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Pagos por carbono en América Latina: de la experiencia de proyectos pilotos a la implementación a gran escala
Noordwijk, Meine van
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Lusiana, B.
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Villamor, G.
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Purnomo, H.
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Dewi, S.
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[Feedback loops added to four conceptual models linking land change with driving forces and actors.]
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Feedback loops added to four conceptual models linking land change with driving forces and actors.
This paper discusses the evolution of the roles of Brazilian women within one of the most prominent organizations of the Amazonian social movement, the National Council of Extractivist Populations (CNS). Between 1990 and 2009, Brazil’s Federal government created 89 extractive and sustainable deve...
Shanley, P.
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Silva, F.C. da
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MacDonald, T.
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[Brazil’s social movement, women and forests: A case study from the National Council of Rubber Tappers]
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Brazil’s social movement, women and forests: A case study from the National Council of Rubber Tappers
Conservation agriculture is a new technique in Northern Lao PDR. This study on the patterns of diffusion and adoption of Conservation Agriculture was conducted in twenty villages of three districts in Xieng khouang province, covering four agro-ecological zones: Pek, northern Kham, Kham basin and ...
Nanthavong, K.
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Keophoxay, Anousith
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Khambanseuang, C.
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Jobard, E.
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Lestrelin, Guillaume
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Castella, J.C.
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[Patterns of diffusion and adoption of Conservation Agriculture: Case studies in Pek, Kham and Nonghet district, Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR]
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Patterns of diffusion and adoption of Conservation Agriculture: Case studies in Pek, Kham and Nonghet district, Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR
The Ngovayang Massif of southern Cameroon is a range of small hills near the Atlantic coast, in the Lower Guinea floristic region. This region is known to harbor forests with high levels of biodiversity and endemism, but this Massif is botanically poorly known. We assessed tree species diversity,...
Gonmadje, C.F.
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Doumenge, C.
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McKey, D.
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Tchouto, G.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Balinga, M.
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Sonke, B.
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[Tree diversity and conservation value of Ngovanyang’s lowland forests, Cameroon]
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Tree diversity and conservation value of Ngovanyang’s lowland forests, Cameroon
The impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and creation of formal Voluntary Conserved Areas (VCAs) on local diets, agricultural practices, subsistence hunting and livelihoods, were assessed in a Chinantec community of southern Mexico. The community has set aside VCAs covering 4 300 ...
Ibarra. J.T.
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Barreau, A.
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Campo, C. del
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Camacho, C.I.
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Martin, G.J.
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Mccandless, S.R.
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[When formal and market-based conservation mechanisms disrupt food sovereignty: Impacts of community conservation and payments for environmental services on an indigenous community of Oaxaca, Mexico]
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When formal and market-based conservation mechanisms disrupt food sovereignty: Impacts of community conservation and payments for environmental services on an indigenous community of Oaxaca, Mexico