Co-management approaches in forestry have frequently failed to fulfill their promise and have generated unexpected conflicts. This is partly because they intersect with a plurality of interests and concerns, in settings that are more socially, institutionally and ecologically differentiated and d...
Leach, M.
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Fairhead, James
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[Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management]
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Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management
CIFOR facilitated 27 communities in the Upper Malinau watershed to develop agreements about their village boundaries and map them through participatory methods. Decentralization reforms created new values of forest resources and uncertainties that increased conflict over local resources. The auth...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Anau, N.
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Iwan, R.
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Heist, M. van
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Limberg, G.
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Sudana, M.
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[Building agreements among stakeholders]
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Building agreements among stakeholders
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
Forest devolution is meant to provide communities with greater decision-making power over the use and future of tropical forests. However, devolution policies have not always had the intended effect; in some cases they have caused or furthered the disenfranchisement of the poor, the creation of o...
Evans, K.
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Jong, W. de
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Cronkleton, P.
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[Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities]
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Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities
Community-based forest management has been promoted widely to enable local communities capture the value of the forests they inhabit. Most community forests have focused on non-timber forest products. In Cameroon, the 1994 Forest Law introduced community forestry with a strong emphasis on timber ...
Blas, D.E. de
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Pérez, M.R.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Lescuyer, G.
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Nasi, Robert
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Karsenty, A.
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[External influences on and conditions for community logging management in Cameroon]
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External influences on and conditions for community logging management in Cameroon
In 2002, mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) was listed on Appendix II of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). This requires that all producing countries define and implement sustainable production systems for mahogany, the most commercially important neotropical timb...
Snook, L.K.
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Santos Jimenez, M.
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Carreon Mundo, M.
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Chan Rivas, C.
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May Ek, F.J.
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Mas Kantun, P.
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Nolasco Morales, A.
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Hernández Hernández, C.
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Escobar Ruiz, C.
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[Managing natural forests for sustainable harvests of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla): experiences in Mexico's community forests]
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Managing natural forests for sustainable harvests of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla): experiences in Mexico's community forests
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?
Forest exploitation has been the main economic driver in the northern Bolivian Amazon. The country enacted changes in legislation and policies affecting natural resource governance. These changes increase the control of the forestry sector by rural communities. Conflicts characterize these change...
Jong, W. de
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Ruiz, S.
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Becker, M.
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[Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia]
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Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia
Decentralization in post-Soeharto Indonesia has not only changed state and society relations at the local level, but brought increased control over forests at the district level. Local social forces gained more influence because of their close relations with local government and acted to limit th...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Moeliono, M.
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Limberg, G.
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Iwan, R.
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Rhee, S.
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Sudana, M.
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[Between state and society: Local governance of forests in Malinau, Indonesia]
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Between state and society: Local governance of forests in Malinau, Indonesia