This study analyzes how long-run macroeconomic fluctuations have affected timber production levels in five tropical oil-producing countries: Gabon, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Venezuela, and Ecuador. The core hypothesis is that oil booms, foreign borrowing and other major foreign exchange i...
Wunder, Sven
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[Macroeconomic change, competitiveness and timber production: a five-country comparison]
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Macroeconomic change, competitiveness and timber production: a five-country comparison
Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea’s popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, t...
Ruiz Perez, M.
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Almeida, M.
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Dewi, S.
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Costa, E.M.L.
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Pantoja, M.C.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Postigo, A.A.
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Andrade, A.G. de
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[Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua]
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Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua
In situ conservation of tropical forests often requires restricting human use and occupancy within protected areas by enforcing regulations. However, law enforcement interventions that seek to prevent deforestation rarely have been evaluated. Conservationists increasingly recognize the need to me...
Gaveau, D.L.A.
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Linkie, M.
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Suyadi
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Levang, P.
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Leader-Williams, N.
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[Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty]
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Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty
Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is one of several schemes designed to conserve the environment by means of a market-based approach which also incorporate The PES framework and depends upon a number of criteria, namely: (a) A voluntary transaction where (b) a well defined environmental se...
Prasetyo, F.A.
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Suwarno, A.
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Purwanto
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Hakim, M.R.
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[Making policies work for Payment for Environmental Services (PES): an evaluation of the experience of formulating conservation policies in districts of Indonesia]
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Making policies work for Payment for Environmental Services (PES): an evaluation of the experience of formulating conservation policies in districts of Indonesia
Indonesia's 1999-2004 decentralization reforms created opportunities for land-use planning that reflected local conditions and local people's needs. We report on seven years of work in the District of Malinau in Indonesian Borneo that attempted to reconnect government land-use plans to local peop...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Dounias, E.
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Gunarso, P.
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Moeliono, M.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Interactive land-use planning in Indonesia rainforest landscapes: reconnecting plans to practice]
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Interactive land-use planning in Indonesia rainforest landscapes: reconnecting plans to practice
Campese, J.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Greiber, T.
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Oviedo, G.
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[What have we learned and where do we go from here?]
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What have we learned and where do we go from here?
One reason for the rapid loss of species-rich tropical forests is the high opportunity costs of forest protection. In Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), the expansion of high-revenue oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations currently threatens 3.3 million ha of forest. We estimate that payments for ...
Venter, O.
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Meijaard, E.
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Possingham, H.
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Dennis, R.A.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Wich, S.
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Hovani, L.
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Wilson, K.A.
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[Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals]
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Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals
Poor peasants – particularly rainforest colonists, who were heralded as pioneers until quite recently – are often blamed for the destruction of the world’s remaining tropical forests. This chapter uses a political ecology approach to examine rainforest colonization in the buffer zone of Nicaragua...
Larson, A.M.
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[The “demonization” of rainforest migrants, or: what conservation means to poor colonist farmers]
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The “demonization” of rainforest migrants, or: what conservation means to poor colonist farmers
Ghazoul, J.
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Koh, L.P.
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[Reply to Sloan and Stork: spatially explicit scenario analysis for reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection, and carbon conservation in Indonesia]
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Reply to Sloan and Stork: spatially explicit scenario analysis for reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection, and carbon conservation in Indonesia