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Colfer, C.J.P.Achdiawan, R.Roshetko, J.M.Mulyoutami, E.Yuliani, L.Mulyana, A.Moeliono, M.Adnan, H.Erni[The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi]The Balance of Power in Household Decision-Making: Encouraging News on Gender in Southern Sulawesi

To meet the challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability, a different kind of research will be needed. This research will need to embrace the complexity of these systems by redirecting the objectives of research toward enhancing adaptive capacity, by incorporating more participatory app...


Sayer, Jeffrey A.Campbell, Bruce M.[Research to integrate productivity enhancement, environmental protection, and human development]Research to integrate productivity enhancement, environmental protection, and human development

Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasise internal dynamics. Scenario methods can be used to: (1) enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholders at these...


Wollenberg, Eva K.Edmunds, D.Buck, L.[Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests]Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests

This short article describes an unlikely, but fruitful, collaboration between an anthropologist and an Artificial Intelligence researcher, the purpose of which was to build a model of how indigenous Dayak people in Kalimantan decide on their activities in the forest. The approach and the results ...


Haggith, M.Colfer, C.J.P.[Traditional wisdom meets artificial intelligence]Traditional wisdom meets artificial intelligence
Sheil, DouglasMeijaard, E.[It’ll take more than research: improving environmental decisions and ecological sciences in Indonesia]It’ll take more than research: improving environmental decisions and ecological sciences in Indonesia

Funding agencies expect policy researchers to show that their efforts have a measurable impact. This poses a considerable challenge. It was traditionally thought that research influences policy directly and that specific policies can be traced back to particular research findings. However, many a...


Spilsbury, M.J.Kaimowitz, D.[The influence of research and publications on conventional wisdom and policies affecting forests]The influence of research and publications on conventional wisdom and policies affecting forests
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.Johnston, R.[Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues.]Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues.

Strategies for increasing the development and use of groundwater for agriculture over much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are urgently needed. Expansion of small-scale groundwater irrigation offers an attractive option to smallholder farmers to overcome unreliable wet-season rainfall and enhance dry...


Pavelic, PaulSmakhtin, Vladimir U.Favreau, G.Villholth, Karen G.[Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.]Water-balance approach for assessing potential for smallholder groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Decision-making approaches, the factors affecting them, the role of the decision-making units and the actors involved in farming decisions were studied in 91 Costa Rican farmers using a classification procedure. Farmers were asked to classify 18 farming decisions (systematically selected from a p...


Solano, C.León, H.Pérez, E.Herrero, Mario T.[Who makes farming decisions? A study of Costa Rican farmers]Who makes farming decisions? A study of Costa Rican farmers

Secretariats are an increasingly common feature in Africa’s transboundary river basin organizations (RBOs). Non-secretariat-based forms of transboundary RBOs nonetheless also exist, and such forms of cooperation have often functioned effectively. These realities drive questions about the rational...


Saruchera, DavisonLautze, Jonathan[Transboundary river basin organizations in Africa: assessing the secretariat]Transboundary river basin organizations in Africa: assessing the secretariat

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