The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Criteria and Indicators (C&I) research responded to an international demand for science to help clarify the assessment of sustainable forest management through development and improvement of C&I. C&I help define standards for sustainable fore...
Spilsbury, M.J.
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[The sustainability of forest management: assessing the impact of CIFOR criteria and indicators research]
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The sustainability of forest management: assessing the impact of CIFOR criteria and indicators research
The development of appropriate indicators of sustainable forest management is attracting considerable interest, although some controversy still exists regarding their utility. The wrong indicators can lead to negative, destructive effects on the systems whose maintenance they allegedly seek to su...
Prabhu, R.
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Ruitenbeek, H.J.
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Boyle, T.J.B.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Between voodoo science and adaptive management: the role and research needs for indicators of sustainable forest management]
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Between voodoo science and adaptive management: the role and research needs for indicators of sustainable forest management
The manual reflects the results of a 3-year participatory learning process that comprised many meetings, workshops, village case studies, a baseline survey of 20 poor villages, two monitoring trials in another 20 villages, and a full monitoring survey of all 223 villages in Kutai Barat. The princ...
Cahyat, A.
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Gonner, C.
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Haug, M.
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[Assessing household poverty and wellbeing: a manual with examples from Kutai Barat, Indonesia]
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Assessing household poverty and wellbeing: a manual with examples from Kutai Barat, Indonesia
Prabhu, R.
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[Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management: a global overview]
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Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management: a global overview
This paper describes the general concepts, meaning, and definitions of sustainability and proposes the use of soft methodologies, particularly fuzzy set theory, for its assessment. Basic elements and concepts of fuzzy sets are described, including membership functions and their interpretations in...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Fuzzy methods for assessing criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management]
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Fuzzy methods for assessing criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management
This paper examines the need to develop criteria and indicators (C&I) to assess the sustainability of tropical timber plantations. It does this in the light of expectations that such plantations are going to play an increasing role in meeting the demand for forest products, environmental services...
Hopmans, P.
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Prabhu, R.
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Brand, D.
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Nambiar, E.K.S.
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Cossalter, C.
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[Development of criteria and indicators for sustainable management of tropical plantation forests]
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Development of criteria and indicators for sustainable management of tropical plantation forests
If one is of the mindset that the world is fundamentally chaotic and irrational, then the discpline of economics probably has little to offer. But if one accepts the notion that there is some method to the apparent madness of individuals, governments and organizations, then economic inquiry does ...
Cahyat, A.
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Gonner, C.
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Haug, M.
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[Mengkaji kemiskinan dan kesejahteraan rumah tangga: sebuah panduan dengan contoh dari Kutai Barat, Indonesia]
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Mengkaji kemiskinan dan kesejahteraan rumah tangga: sebuah panduan dengan contoh dari Kutai Barat, Indonesia
The development of criteria and indicators (C&I) for good forest management was identified as one of the essential components of a research and demonstration project in the Brazilian Amazon under the leadership of Embrapa Eastern Amazon and CIFOR. Four steps were envisaged: (1) Definition of a pr...
Pokorny B.
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Sabogal, C.
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Prabhu, R.
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Silva, J.N.M.
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[Introducing criteria and indicators for monitoring and auditing forest management in the Brazilian Amazon]
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Introducing criteria and indicators for monitoring and auditing forest management in the Brazilian Amazon
Assessing the performance of management is central to natural resource management, in terms of improving the efficiency of interventions in an adaptive-learning cycle. This is not simple, given that such systems generally have multiple scales of interaction and response; high frequency of non-lin...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Frost, P.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Cunningham, A.B.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Assessing the performance of natural resource systems]
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Assessing the performance of natural resource systems