This paper looks at the experience of designing and implementing policy reforms in the Bolivian forestry sector. It does not attemp to evaluate the process of reform itself but rather to examine the main obstacles faced in its planning and implementation and how the lessons of the Bolivian experi...
Contreras-Hermosilla, A.
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Vargas Rios, M.T.
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[Las dimensiones sociales, ambientales y economicas de las reformas a la politica forestal de Bolivia]
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Las dimensiones sociales, ambientales y economicas de las reformas a la politica forestal de Bolivia
Illegal logging is a cause for widespread concern. It has negative environmental impacts, results in the loss of forest products used by rural communities, creates conflicts, and causes significant losses of tax revenues that could be used for development activities. The Nature Conservancy and Wo...
Tacconi, L.
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Obidzinski, K.
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Agung, F.
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[Proses pembelajaran (learning lessons) promosi sertifikasi hutan dan pengendalian penebangan liar di Indonesia]
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Proses pembelajaran (learning lessons) promosi sertifikasi hutan dan pengendalian penebangan liar di Indonesia
The Chinese government is aggressively promoting development of a domestic wood pulp industry, integrated with a plantation-based fiber supply and downstream paper production. It is doing so by providing discounted loans from state banks, fiscal incentives, and capital subsidies for establishment...
Barr, C.
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Cossalter, C.
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[China's development of a plantation-based wood pulp industry: government policies, financial incentives, and investment trends]
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China's development of a plantation-based wood pulp industry: government policies, financial incentives, and investment trends
Gabon’s oil wealth coincides with the fact that it is one of the most forested countries in Africa; about four-fifths of its land area is covered by forests. But this is not really a coincidence. The central hypothesis of this report is that oil rents have enabled a series of pro-urban, anti-rura...
Wunder, Sven
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[When the Dutch disease met the French connection: oil, macroeconomics and forests in Gabon]
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When the Dutch disease met the French connection: oil, macroeconomics and forests in Gabon
Gabon’s oil wealth coincides with the fact that it is one of the most forested countries in Africa; about four-fifths of its land area is covered by forests. But this is not really a coincidence. The central hypothesis of this report is that oil rents have enabled a series of pro-urban, anti-rura...
Wunder, Sven
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[Quand le syndrome Neerlandais: petrole, macroeconomie et forets au Gabon]
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Quand le syndrome Neerlandais: petrole, macroeconomie et forets au Gabon
Rattan cultivated as part of the traditional swidden agricultural system has been a major source of internationally traded rattan raw material and, more recently, the basis of a strong domestic furniture and handicrafts industry. The rattan gardens of Kalimantan provide an example of an intermedi...
Pambudhi, F.
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Belcher, B.
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Levang, P.
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Dewi, S.
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[Rattan (Calamus spp.) gardens of Kalimantan: resilience and evolution in a managed non-timber forest product system]
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Rattan (Calamus spp.) gardens of Kalimantan: resilience and evolution in a managed non-timber forest product system
China’s south-western province of Yunnan is a mountainous area of high biological and cultural diversity that was annexed into China relatively late in Chinese history. The province has lost over two thirds of its original forest cover and lost half of what remained in the last fifty years. Ethni...
Colchester, M.
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[Community forestry in Yunnan: the challenge for networks [Chinese]]
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Community forestry in Yunnan: the challenge for networks [Chinese]
This article examines the institutional matrix associated with logging and forest pioneering in a district on Sumatra. It draws together theoretical approaches to develop a framework for analysing the operation of competing forms of institutional power and control. The article argues that the gov...
McCarthy, J.F.
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[Power and interest on Sumatra’s rainforest frontier: clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas valley]
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Power and interest on Sumatra’s rainforest frontier: clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas valley
Jintao Xu
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Bull, G.Q.
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Nilsson, S.
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White, A.
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Pottinger, A.J.
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[Forestry in China - policy, consumption and production in forestry's newest superpower]
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Forestry in China - policy, consumption and production in forestry's newest superpower
Viewing resource management essentially through a biophysical lens has provided too restricted a perspective for understanding complex political processes surrounding forest management. The case of community forestry in Nepal demonstrates a range of experiences of complex political processes, inc...
Ojha, H.
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Paudel, N.S.
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Banjade, M.R.
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McDougall, C.
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Cameron, J.
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[The deliberative scientist: integrating science and politics in forest resource governance in Nepal]
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The deliberative scientist: integrating science and politics in forest resource governance in Nepal