Fuel characteristics, fire behaviour and temperature were studied in relation to grazing, dominant grass type and wind direction in West African savanna–woodland by lighting 32 prescribed early fires. Grazing significantly reduced the vegetation height, total fuel load, and dead and live fuel fra...
Savadogo, P.
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Zida, D.
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Sawadogo, L.
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Tiveau, D.
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Tigabu, M.
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Oden, P.C.
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[Fuel and fire characteristics in savanna–woodland of West Africa in relation to grazing and dominant grass type]
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Fuel and fire characteristics in savanna–woodland of West Africa in relation to grazing and dominant grass type
This short article describes an unlikely, but fruitful, collaboration between an anthropologist and an Artificial Intelligence researcher, the purpose of which was to build a model of how indigenous Dayak people in Kalimantan decide on their activities in the forest. The approach and the results ...
The article reviews some of the critical issues for including Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) into a new global climate agreement. Four different REDD models (regimes) are discussed based on two dimensions: scale (national vs. project) and funding (market vs. fu...
Complex ecological and social processes in tropical forests imply that observations on any single element of the system do not provide an adequate basis for sound forest management. A collaborative modelling process engaging all relevant stakeholders led to a shared understanding of how to manage...
Purnomo, H.
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Yasmi, Y.
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Prabhu, R.
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Hakim, S.
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Jafar, A.
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Suprihatin
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[Collaborative modelling to support forest management: qualitative systems analysis at Lumut Mountain, Indonesia]
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Collaborative modelling to support forest management: qualitative systems analysis at Lumut Mountain, Indonesia
Participatory modelling can be a useful process to encourage critical examination of livelihood options and foster sustainable natural resource use through enhanced social learning, collective action and mobilization. The broom-grass group in the Mafungautsi forest reserve serves as a case study ...
Standa-Gunda, W.
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Mutimukuru, T.
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Nyirenda, R.
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Prabhu, R.
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Haggith, M.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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[Participatory modelling to enhance social learning, collective action and mobilization among users of the Mafungautsi forest, Zimbabwe]
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Participatory modelling to enhance social learning, collective action and mobilization among users of the Mafungautsi forest, Zimbabwe
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Johnston, R.
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[Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues.]
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Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues.
Adoption of animal traction in sub-Saharan Africa has historically been slow and stagnant. This is despite considerable efforts by researchers and development planners to introduce the technique among smallholder semi-subsistence farmers in a large number of countries. Based on a simulation model...
Jansen, G.P.
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[Ex-ante profitability of animal traction investments in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger and Nigeria]
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Ex-ante profitability of animal traction investments in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger and Nigeria
OASIS, an irrigation diagnosis model, is applied to the Zhanghe Irrigation System in central China to investigate the contribution of smaller local storages (in �melons on the vine� configuration) as compared with the main reservoir. Results show that local storages are more important in normal-t...
Xueliang Cai
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Yuanlai Cui
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Dai, J.
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Luo, Y.
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[Local storages: the impact on hydrology and implications for policy making in irrigation systems.]
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Local storages: the impact on hydrology and implications for policy making in irrigation systems.
A mixed model simultaneous procedure is described to estimate location parameters for the right-censored and uncensored traits in the practical animal breeding data set for herd-life and milk production. Location parameters of fixed effects represented by herd -year effects and random effects rep...
Togashi, K.
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Rege, J.E.O.
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[An iterative procedure for analyzing a combination of censored and uncensored traits in mixed models: Estimation of location parameters]
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An iterative procedure for analyzing a combination of censored and uncensored traits in mixed models: Estimation of location parameters
Past attempts to alleviate the problems of poor farmers engaged in mixed-crop-livestock production have generally focussed on the design and diffusion of new technologies targeted on specific components of the agroecosystem. Unfortunately, such piece-meal efforts have had little impact in the dev...
Li Pun, H.H.
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Baumgaertner, J.U.
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Greiling, J.
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Gopalan, H.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Mares, V.
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McDermott, John J.
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Odiit, M.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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[Linking natural resources, agriculture and human health: case studies from East Africa]
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Linking natural resources, agriculture and human health: case studies from East Africa