Conservation organisations are faced with the complexities between protecting forests, developing local livelihoods and strengthening institutions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the strategies employed by organisations to implement conservation and development, and to assess how project pro...
Preece, L.
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Herrero Cangas, B.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Achdiawan, R.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Stacey, Natasha
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[Losing less and winning more: project strategies to negotiate between conservation and development in the Lower Mekong]
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Losing less and winning more: project strategies to negotiate between conservation and development in the Lower Mekong
Since 2009, CIFOR has initiated the Global Comparative Study of REDD+ in six countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, Tanzania and Vietnam. In analysing national REDD+ policy arenas and emerging strategies, CIFOR researchers have developed five areas of work for each country. These includ...
Knowledge of wood production, and particularly of diameter increment of trees, is central to forest management. This is one of the parameters contributing to determination of the length of the felling cycle as well as the maximum allowable cut without impoverishment of forest stands. Two techniqu...
Detienne, P.
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Oyono, F.
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Durrieu de Madron, L.
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Demarquez, B.
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Nasi, Robert
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[L'analyse de cernes: applications aux études de croissance de quelques essences en peuplements naturels de forét dense africaine]
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L'analyse de cernes: applications aux études de croissance de quelques essences en peuplements naturels de forét dense africaine
Biodiversity conservation, as one criterion for evaluating forest sustainability, is assessed using a fuzzy analytic hierarchical framework organised around three concepts; criteria, indicators, and verifiers. Following this hierarchical framework, a biodiversity conservation index model was deve...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservation]
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A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservation
Conflict and collaboration are often treated as mutually exclusive modes of stakeholder interaction, with little understanding of the contexts in which stakeholder relationships take place. The conceptual framework in this paper addresses accommodating multiple interests as an evolving, cyclical,...
Ramírez, R.
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[Understanding the approaches for accommodating multiple stakeholders' interests]
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Understanding the approaches for accommodating multiple stakeholders' interests
Nhantumbo, I.
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Mlay, G.
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Kowero, G.S.
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[Linear and goal programming models for analysis of policy impacts on livelihoods in Miombo of Mozambique]
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Linear and goal programming models for analysis of policy impacts on livelihoods in Miombo of Mozambique
The lottery model of competition between species in a variable environmental has been influential in understanding how coexistence may result from interactions between fluctuating environmental and competitive factors. Of most importance, it has led to the concept of the storage effect as a mecha...
Participatory approaches to forest management have gained wide acceptance and have also become the primary guiding principle in the management of natural resources worldwide. Despite their widespread popularity, participatory methods developed so far have often been criticized as lacking in rigor...
Mendoza, G.A.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Combining participatory modeling and multi-criteria analysis for community-based forest management]
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Combining participatory modeling and multi-criteria analysis for community-based forest management
Silvia-Forest Management System is a computer application designed to help managers and technicians in the sustainable management of forest plantations. Silvia version 2 includes a plantations database, an equations database, and modules to simulate future grwoth and yield, process inventory data...
Vallejo, A.
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Kanninen, M.
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Montero, M.
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Viquez, E.
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[Silvia: a flexible system for integrated plantation management]
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Silvia: a flexible system for integrated plantation management