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
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 ...
The authors studied the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project (NKMCAP), Bolivia, to assess whether forest protection carbon (C) projects can significantly benefit local people. They hypothesized that forest protection can only securely deliver C if significant stakeholders are meaningfully a...
This paper describes CIFOR’s experiences in implementing ACM research in two sites in Indonesia; East Kalimantan and Jambi. The focus of this paper is on how joint (or social) learning is designed, implemented and institutionalized in every stage of the research. The methodology of the research w...
Yasmi, Y.
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Kusumanto, Y.
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[Learning in adaptive collaborative management of community forests: lessons from Indonesia]
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Learning in adaptive collaborative management of community forests: lessons from Indonesia
South Africa, influenced by global trends towards good governance and sustainable natural resource management, has begun to adopt a participatory management approach to state-owned indigenous forests. This study, in a remote communal area and State Forest in the Eastern Cape, sought to understand...
Grundy, I.M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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White, R.M.
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Prabhu, R.
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Jensen, S.
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Ngamile, T.N.
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[Participatory forest management in conservation areas: the case of Cwebe, South Africa]
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Participatory forest management in conservation areas: the case of Cwebe, South Africa
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.
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Lescuyer, G.
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[Monitoring, indicators and community based forest management in the tropics: pretexts or red herrings?]
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Monitoring, indicators and community based forest management in the tropics: pretexts or red herrings?
Participatory approaches to forest management have gained wide acceptance and have also become the primary guiding principle in the management of natural resources worldwide. Despite their widespread popularity, participatory methods developed so far have often been criticized as lacking in rigor...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Combining participatory modeling and multi-criteria analysis for community-based forest management]
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Combining participatory modeling and multi-criteria analysis for community-based forest management
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Iwan, R.
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Limberg, G.
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Moeliono, M.
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Sudana, I.M.
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Uluk, A.
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Anau, N.
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Heist, M. van
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[From participation to partnership: devolution, forest communities and CIFOR in Malinau, Indonesia]
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From participation to partnership: devolution, forest communities and CIFOR in Malinau, Indonesia