Monitoring and research activities may hinder rather than improce conservation in tropical countries. This paper identifies some critical threats to biodiversity and the limited resources for defending against them. It suggests various contributory factors, and a few common sense options for impr...
A significant shift has taken place in global forest tenure, with a doubling of the forest area under community ownership (or administration over the past 15 years). There is every indication that communal tenure will double again over the next 15 years. Recognition of traditional and indigenous ...
Molnar,A.
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Gomes, D.
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Sousa, R.
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Vidal, N.
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Hojer, R.F.
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Arguelles, L.A.
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Kaatz, S.
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Martin, A.
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Donini, G.
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Scherr, Sara J.
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White, A.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[Community forest enterprise markets in Mexico and Brazil: new opportunities and challenges for legal access to the forest]
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Community forest enterprise markets in Mexico and Brazil: new opportunities and challenges for legal access to the forest
This study determines whether the establishment of tropical protected areas (PAs) has led to a reduction in deforestation within their boundaries or whether deforestation has been displaced to adjacent unprotected areas: a process termed neighbourhood leakage. We processed and analysed 98 corres...
Gaveau, D.L.A.
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Epting, J.
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Lyne, O.
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Linkie, M.
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Kumara, I.
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Kanninen, M.
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Leader-Williams, N.
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[Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra]
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Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra
Tree planting in the tropics is conducted for a number of reasons including carbon sequestration, but often competes with increasingly scarce water resources. The basics of forest and water relations are frequently said to be well understood but there is a pressing need to better understand and p...
Malmer, A.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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Bruijnzeel, L.A.
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Ilstedt, U.
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[Carbon sequestration in tropical forests and water: a critical look at the basis for commonly used generalizations]
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Carbon sequestration in tropical forests and water: a critical look at the basis for commonly used generalizations
Gorontalo’s tropical forest is of global importance and is the last stronghold for conserving Sulawesi’s unique biodiversity. However, implementation of biodiversity conservation at the local level has been fraught with very complex, rooted in increased pressures on natural resources and its ecol...
Kartikasari, S.N.
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Rixecker, S.
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Espiner, S.R.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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[Seeing the forest as more than its trees: local stakeholders’ perceptions of natural forest benefits in Gorontalo, Indonesia]
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Seeing the forest as more than its trees: local stakeholders’ perceptions of natural forest benefits in Gorontalo, Indonesia
The new approaches advocated by the conservation community to integrate conservation and livelihood development now explicitly address landscape mosaics composed of agricultural and forested land rather than only protected areas and largely intact forests. We refer specifically to a call by Harve...
García, C.A.
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Bhagwat, S.A.
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Ghazoul, J.
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Nath, C.D.
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Nanaya, K.M.
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Kushalappa, C.G.
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Raghuramulu, Y.
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Nasi, Robert
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Vaast, Philippe
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[Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: challenges and opportunities of coffee agroforests in the Western Ghats, India]
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Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: challenges and opportunities of coffee agroforests in the Western Ghats, India
Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E), Carbon...
Merger, E.
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Dutschke, M.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Options for REDD+ voluntary certification to ensure net GHG benefits, poverty alleviation, sustainable management of forests and biodiversity conservation]
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Options for REDD+ voluntary certification to ensure net GHG benefits, poverty alleviation, sustainable management of forests and biodiversity conservation
This study analyzes how long-run macroeconomic fluctuations have affected timber production levels in five tropical oil-producing countries: Gabon, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Venezuela, and Ecuador. The core hypothesis is that oil booms, foreign borrowing and other major foreign exchange i...
Wunder, Sven
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[Macroeconomic change, competitiveness and timber production: a five-country comparison]
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Macroeconomic change, competitiveness and timber production: a five-country comparison
Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea’s popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, t...
Ruiz Perez, M.
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Almeida, M.
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Dewi, S.
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Costa, E.M.L.
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Pantoja, M.C.
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Puntodewo, A.
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Postigo, A.A.
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Andrade, A.G. de
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[Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua]
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Conservation and development in Amazonian extractive reserves: the case of Alto Jurua
In situ conservation of tropical forests often requires restricting human use and occupancy within protected areas by enforcing regulations. However, law enforcement interventions that seek to prevent deforestation rarely have been evaluated. Conservationists increasingly recognize the need to me...
Gaveau, D.L.A.
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Linkie, M.
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Suyadi
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Levang, P.
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Leader-Williams, N.
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[Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty]
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Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty