Descubre y comparte nuestro conocimiento público

Se han encontrado 319 recursos

Resultados de búsqueda

The purpose of this article is to introduce the dry forest programme and to highlight the importance of the progress to date


Marunda, C.T.Kowero, G.S.Tiveau, D.[Stimulating policy dialogue on the dry forests of Africa: a Sida/CIFOR initiative]Stimulating policy dialogue on the dry forests of Africa: a Sida/CIFOR initiative

Indonesia has extensive areas of post extraction secondary forests and degraded lands arising from intensive exploitation of forest resources in recent decades. Using the area of forests resulting from selective logging practices as an estimate, in year 2000, post extraction secondary forests cov...


Kartawinata, K.Riswan, S.Gintings, A.N.Puspitojati, T.[An overview of post-extraction secondary forests in Indonesia]An overview of post-extraction secondary forests in Indonesia

Most forests in tropical Nepal are secondary, resulting largely from episodes of large-scale timber harvesting in the past along with accumulated small scale extraction of timber and non-timber forest products by local people over centuries. Currently in the forest depleted stage, remaining tropi...


Kanel, K.R.Shrestha, K.[Tropical secondary forests in Nepal and their importance to local people]Tropical secondary forests in Nepal and their importance to local people

Criteria and indicators to evaluate forest management (C&I) facilitate the understanding of and communication about sustainability. Thus an increasing number of national and international initiatives defined C&I sets for certification, monitoring and auditing of forest management. Because of the ...


Pokorny, B.Sabogal, C.Camino, Ronnie de[Metodologias para evaluar la aplicacion de criterios e indicadores en el manejo forestal de bosques tropicales en America Latina]Metodologias para evaluar la aplicacion de criterios e indicadores en el manejo forestal de bosques tropicales en America Latina

This brief article documents author's reasons for considering the answer to be "yes." She draws first on her extensive ethnographic experience in forest communities in the US and in several forested areas of Indonesia, with examples. Her second source of conviction in this view comes from her inv...


Colfer, C.J.P.[Women and forests: does their involvement matter?]Women and forests: does their involvement matter?

This brief article begins with a summary of CIFOR's work on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (C&I). It then discusses how CIFOR programs combined to form the program called Local People, Devolution and Adaptive Collaborative Management of Forests". It briefly describes th...


Colfer, C.J.P.Center for International Forestry Research[Social aspects of tropical forest management]Social aspects of tropical forest management
Putz, F.E.Zuidema, P.A.Pinard, M.A.Boot, R.G.A.Sayer, Jeffrey A.Sheil, DouglasSist, P.Vanclay, J.K.[Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention]Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention

In the past in Africa, State forest administration took nominal control of local forest management from rural populations. This control, based on a European concept of management, gradually deteriorated and the methods of classical forest management are no longer suited to existing conditions. Th...


Antona, M.Babin, D.[Multiple interest accommodation in African forest management projects: between pragmatism and theoretical coherence]Multiple interest accommodation in African forest management projects: between pragmatism and theoretical coherence

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.Fairhead, James[Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management]Plural perspectives and institutional dynamics: challenges for local forest management

Selecciona los documentos para visualizarlos

Nombre del archivo Ver recurso