The annual diameter measurements four years of 75 big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) trees in natural forests in northwestern Belize were analyzed to determine growth rates. Mean diameter increment exceeded 1 cm year-1, with slightly higher growth rates in trees > 50 cm dbh. Inter-ind...
Shono, K.
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Snook, L.K.
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[Growth of big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) in natural forests in Belize]
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Growth of big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) in natural forests in Belize
Murniati
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Padmanaba, M.
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Basuki, I.
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[Forest resources utilization value of the communities living in and around Gunung Lumut protection forest, East Kalimantan]
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Forest resources utilization value of the communities living in and around Gunung Lumut protection forest, East Kalimantan
Lazard, J.
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Baruthio, A.
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Mathé, S.
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Chia, Eduardo
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Rey-Valette, H.
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Clément, O.
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Morissens, P.
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Mikolasek, O.
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Legendre, M.
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Levang, P.
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Slembrouck, J.
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René, F.
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Aubin, J.
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Blancheton, J.P.
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[Diversité des systèmes aquacoles et développement durable: entre structure d’exploitation et représentations]
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Diversité des systèmes aquacoles et développement durable: entre structure d’exploitation et représentations
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
Management means allocating and distributing limited resources to achieve clearly defined targets. This definition helps towards a clear summary of the way ideas to do with forest management have been developing. Areas of concern have been gradually shifting form technical assignments (resource a...
Bertrand, A.
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Babin, D.
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Nasi, Robert
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[Evalution et diversite du concept d'amenagement forestier]
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Evalution et diversite du concept d'amenagement forestier
Reasons for the decline of people’s income from any given non-timber forest product are: over-harvesting of the resource base; capturing of the business by local elite; domestication of the product; decreased demand; or manufacturing of substitutes. In all of these scenarios, income for local col...
Jong, W. de
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Schroder, J.M.
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[Sustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesis]
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Sustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesis
Tropical deforestation is leading to a loss of economically productive timber concessions, as well as areas with important environmental or socio-cultural values. To counteract this threat in Southeast Asia, sustainable forest management (SFM) practices are becoming increasingly important. We ass...
Dennis, R.A.
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Meijaard, E.
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Nasi, Robert
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Gustafsson, L.
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[Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asian timber concessions: a critical evaluation of policy mechanisms and guidelines]
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Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asian timber concessions: a critical evaluation of policy mechanisms and guidelines
Multiple-use forest management (MFM) for timber, non-timber forest products and environmental services is envisioned by many as a preferable alternative to timber-dominant management models. It is praised as a more equitable strategy of satisfying the demands from multiple stakeholders, an ecolog...
García Fernandez, C.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Wunder, Sven
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[Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics?]
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Is multiple-use forest management widely implementable in the tropics?
Criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable resource management were generated under a facilitated community-driven approach where villagers took active roles, not only in the generation of the indicators but also in their subsequent assessment. The general procedure followed a two-stage proces...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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Nyirenda, R.
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Standa-Gunda, W.
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Mutimukuru, T.
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[A community-driven multi-criteria approach to developing indicators of sustainable resource management]
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A community-driven multi-criteria approach to developing indicators of sustainable resource management
Conservation concessions, as advocated by E.Niesten and R.Rice, suggest the paying revenues to populations and the State so that they may renounce income derived from forest exploitation. Apart from the questionable transformation of peasants as renters of conservation, serious questions arise as...
Karsenty, A.
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Nasi, Robert
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[Un commentaire sur l'article de E. Niesten et R. Rice les (concessions de conservation) sonnent-elles le glas de l'amenagement forestier durable?]
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Un commentaire sur l'article de E. Niesten et R. Rice les (concessions de conservation) sonnent-elles le glas de l'amenagement forestier durable?