Forest conservation in human-dominated tropical landscapes ensures provision of major ecosystem services. However, conservation goals are threatened by growing demands for agricultural products. As the expansion of agricultural frontiers continues to exert increasing pressure on forest cover, it ...
Bourgoin, Clément
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Oszwald, Johan
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Bourgoin, Jeremy
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Gond, Valéry
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Blanc, Lilian
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Dessard, Hélène
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Phan, Trong Van
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Sist, Plinio
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Läderach, Peter
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Reymondin, Louis
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[Assessing the ecological vulnerability of forest landscape to agricultural frontier expansion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam]
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Assessing the ecological vulnerability of forest landscape to agricultural frontier expansion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Guariguata, M.R.
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Nasi, Robert
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Kanninen, M.
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[Forest degradation: it is not a matter of new definitions]
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Forest degradation: it is not a matter of new definitions
Bolivia implemented an extensive reform of their forestry sector during the 1990s. Starting five years later, we evaluated the degree of adoption of sustainable forest management practices (SFM) by timber concessionaires in Bolivia and investigated the factors influencing their adoption. Data wer...
Boscolo, M.
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Snook, L.K.
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Quevedo, L.
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[Adoption of sustainable forest management practices in Bolivian timber concessions: a quantitative assessment]
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Adoption of sustainable forest management practices in Bolivian timber concessions: a quantitative assessment
The implementation of a mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD - plus) will be affected by governance conditions within host countries. The top eight countries, which are responsible for 70 percent of the world's total annual deforestation, have implement...
Irawan, S.
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Tacconi, L.
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[Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) and decentralized forest management]
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) and decentralized forest management
Tropical forests are decreasing at the rate of 16.9 million hectares per year due mainly to clearing for agriculture and shifting cultivation. Moreover, timber harvesting results in more than 5 million hectares of tropical forest becoming secondary forests every year. CIFOR has a mission to contr...
Kobayashi, S.
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[CIFOR/Japan Research Project on "Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems"]
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CIFOR/Japan Research Project on "Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems"
Governments in tropical countries are still responding to increasing forest degradation by implementing different types of protected areas. In general, due to their negative image as causes of deforestation, local communities are being excluded from any management role in these conservation areas...
Boissiere, M.
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Sheil, Douglas
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Basuki, I.
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Wan, M.
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Le, H.
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[Can engaging local people’s interests reduce forest degradation in Central Vietnam?]
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Can engaging local people’s interests reduce forest degradation in Central Vietnam?
Developing countries are expected to contribute to climate change mitigation efforts by reducing deforestation, with financial compensations for associated economic losses. These losses are due to foregone revenues and limited economic development, all of these labeled “opportunity costs”. Their ...
Pirard, R.
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[Estimating opportunity costs of avoided deforestation (REDD): Application of a flexible stepwise approach to the Indonesian pulp sector]
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Estimating opportunity costs of avoided deforestation (REDD): Application of a flexible stepwise approach to the Indonesian pulp sector
This article presents a system dynamics (SD) method to examine the problem of forest degradation. The model developed takes a system-oriented view of forest management, embracing both social and biophysical factors affecting deforestation. Social factors examined are socio-economic variables or e...
Purnomo, H.
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Mendoza, G.A.
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[A system dynamics model for evaluating collaborative forest management: a case study in Indonesia]
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A system dynamics model for evaluating collaborative forest management: a case study in Indonesia
Inclusion of improved forest management as a way to enhance carbon sinks in the Copenhagen Accord of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (December 2009) suggests that forest restoration will play a role in global climate change mitigation under the post-Kyoto agreement. Alth...
Sasaki, N.
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Asner, G.P.
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Knorr, W.
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Durst, P.B.
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Priyadi, H.
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Putz, F.E.
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[Approaches to classifying and restoring degraded tropical forests for the anticipated REDD+ climate change mitigation mechanism]
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Approaches to classifying and restoring degraded tropical forests for the anticipated REDD+ climate change mitigation mechanism