This case study covers work in the Malinau catchment in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, a vast area of primary and secondary forest with scattered villages. The project has evolved to focus on key factors underlying poverty and forest loss. Inappropriate harvesting is reducing biodiversity, limiting ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Gunarso, P.
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Kartawinata, K.
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Levang, P.
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Rhee, S.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Sist, P.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Empowering forest dwellers and managing forests more sustainably in the landscapes of Borneo]
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Empowering forest dwellers and managing forests more sustainably in the landscapes of Borneo
Indonesia has a considerable area of degraded land requiring rehabilitation. However, most rehabilitation projects in the past have been government driven, depending on public funding (ndonesian government and international donors), and have focused mainly on technical aspects. As a result people...
Nawir, A.A.
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Gumartini, T.
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[Company--community partnership outgrower schemes in forestry plantations in Indonesia: an alternative to conventional rehabilitation programmes]
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Company--community partnership outgrower schemes in forestry plantations in Indonesia: an alternative to conventional rehabilitation programmes
This document is intended for those interested in gathering natural resource information that reflects the needs of local communities. It describes a multidisciplinary survey developed with indigenous communities in the fores-rich landscapes of the Malinau watershed in East Kalimantan (Indonesian...
Sheil, Douglas
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Puri, R.K.
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Basuki, I.
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Heist, M. van
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Wan, M.
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Liswanti, N.
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Rukmiyati
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Sardjono, M.A.
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Samsoedin, I.
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Sidiyasa, K.D.
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Chrisandini
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Permana, E.
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Angi, E.M.
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Gatzweiler, F.
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Johnson, B.
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Wijaya, A.
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[Exploring biological diversity, environment and local people's perspectives in forest landscapes: methods for a multidisciplinary landscape assessment]
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Exploring biological diversity, environment and local people's perspectives in forest landscapes: methods for a multidisciplinary landscape assessment
Community forestry has transformed over the past 25 years from being an experimental means of providing wood-fuel for the rural poor to a community-led movement demanding reform of the forestry sector. International networks to promote community forestry, which emerged at very different moments i...
Colchester, M.
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Apte, T.
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Laforge, M.
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Mandondo, A.
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Pathak, N.
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[Communautes, forets et reseaux internationux: des liaisons a renforcer]
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Communautes, forets et reseaux internationux: des liaisons a renforcer
Community forestry has transformed over the past 25 years from being an experimental means of providing wood-fuel for the rural poor to a community-led movement demanding reform of the forestry sector. International networks to promote community forestry, which emerged at very different moments i...
Colchester, M.
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Apte, T.
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Laforge, M.
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Mandondo, A.
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Pathak, N.
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[Cerrando la Brech: comunidades, bosques y redes internacionales]
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Cerrando la Brech: comunidades, bosques y redes internacionales
Berau district has been one of East Kalimantan’s largest sources of timber since the mid-1980s. Until the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998, most of the district’s formal timber production was conducted by large-scale HPH concession holders, and the vast majority of the fiscal revenues generated...
Obidzinski, K.
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Barr, C.
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[The effects decentralisation on forests and forest industries in Berau district, East Kalimantan]
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The effects decentralisation on forests and forest industries in Berau district, East Kalimantan
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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[Ordenacion de bosques naturales para la explotacion sostenible de la caoba (Swietenia macrophylla): experiencias en bosques comunales de Mexico: experiencias en bosques comunales de Mexico]
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Ordenacion de bosques naturales para la explotacion sostenible de la caoba (Swietenia macrophylla): experiencias en bosques comunales de Mexico: experiencias en bosques comunales de Mexico
The expansion of agriculture is widely held to be one of the causes of tropical deforestation. Simply stated, the progressive expansion of agriculture into areas of tropical forest can only occur when forests are slashed. There is little doubt that in many places an increased need for agricultura...
This paper examines Cameroon’s model of forest-management decentralisation by characterising its organisational infrastructure and by assessing – and anticipating – the ecological effects of those policy changes. The essay is based on nvironmental governance research conducted in Cameroon during ...
Oyono, P.R.
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[The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon’s forest management decentralisation model]
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The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon’s forest management decentralisation model
Responding to the decline of game, fruit and fiber, post-logging, communities along the Capim River in Pará, Brazil, requested that research be initiated into the value of non-timber forest products. As a first step, an ethnobotanical inventory of one hectare of mature terra firme forest was cond...