Management of the Danau Sentarum National Park for ecosystem and species conservation must accomodate fishing activity by thousands of villagers living there. Fishery investigations helped determine how this might be accomplished. Fishing gear surveys revealed that villagers use 800 km of gill ne...
Development of management plans collaboratively with local people (e.g. co-management) is now an important means of protected area conservation. Yet formal protected area managers often need more specific information about the local people with whom they want to co-manage resources. We propose wi...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Venkateswarlu, P.
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[Understanding local people's use of time: a pre-condition for good co-management]
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Understanding local people's use of time: a pre-condition for good co-management
This article examines social conditions in a bay experiencing population growth, gear conflict, overfishing, and general resource declince. Sample surveys of fishing households caried out in 1980 and 1993 in nine villages of San Miguel Bay reveal patterns of continuity and change. The key continu...
Sunderlin, William D.
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[Resource decline and adaptation through time: fishers in San Miguel Bay, Philippines 1980-1993]
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Resource decline and adaptation through time: fishers in San Miguel Bay, Philippines 1980-1993
Large-scale, recurrent fires in Indonesia in recent decades have caused widespread deforestation and transformation of peatlands, and have contributed to substantial smoke haze and greenhouse-gas pollution. In some areas, local community use of fire for livelihood needs could be a major factor be...
Chokkalingam, U.
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Kurniawan, I.
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Ruchiat, Y.
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[Fire, livelihoods, and environmental change in the middle Mahakam peatlands, East Kalimantan]
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Fire, livelihoods, and environmental change in the middle Mahakam peatlands, East Kalimantan