The book is structured to cover a range of gender issues in various forest, trees and agroforest management areas from tree species identification to landuse decision-making. Participatory research tools are featured such as ranking, mapping, modeling, participatory GIS; and other tools that can ...
Carsan, S.
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Karanja E
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Bourne, M.
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Muchugi A
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Franzel, Steven
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Jamnadass, Ramni H.
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[Mapping gender preferences for tree and shrub forages]
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Mapping gender preferences for tree and shrub forages
This book examines the experience of China's forestry sector with respect to the full set of forest and nonforest policy reforrms introduced since 1978. The lessons of this book are important for China, and for the rest of the world as well. For China the analyses in each chapter provides rigorou...
Hyde, William F.
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Belcher, B.
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Jintao Xu
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[China's forests: global lessons from market reforms (Chinese)]
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China's forests: global lessons from market reforms (Chinese)
Threre is limited knowledge available as to the major causes of illegal logging and its impacts on biodiversity, people and livelihoods and national economies, and thus plenty of speculation and action without evidence. It is clear that while illegal logging does have negative impacts, it also, c...
Tacconi, L.
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[Illegal logging: law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade]
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Illegal logging: law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade
Ngakan, P.O.
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Achmad, A.
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Wiliam, D.
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Lahae, K.
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Tako, A.
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[The dynamics of decentralization in the forestry sector in South Sulawesi: the history, realities and challenges of decentralized governance]
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The dynamics of decentralization in the forestry sector in South Sulawesi: the history, realities and challenges of decentralized governance
Ngakan, P.O.
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Achmad, A.
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Wiliam, D.
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Lahae, K.
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Tako, A.
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[Dinamika proses desentralisasi sektor kehutanan di Sulawesi Selatan: sejarah, realitas dan tantangan menuju pemerintahan otonomi yang mandiri]
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Dinamika proses desentralisasi sektor kehutanan di Sulawesi Selatan: sejarah, realitas dan tantangan menuju pemerintahan otonomi yang mandiri
This volume contains proceedings of a historic workshop held in December 2005 that has brought clarity to the concept of community forestry in Liberia. The workshop addressed a wide range of issues pertaining to community forestry, based on presentations from a range of experts, local community r...
The Culture and Conservation Research Program in Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, constitutes a unique interdisciplinary engagement in central Borneo that lasted for six years (1991-97). Based on original ethnographic, ecological, and historical data, this volume comprehensively de...
Eghenter, C.
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Sellato, B.
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Devung, G.S.
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[Social science research and conservation management in the interior Borneo: unravelling past and present interactions of people and forests]
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Social science research and conservation management in the interior Borneo: unravelling past and present interactions of people and forests
The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. Fresh research from a host of Asia-Pacific countries presents rich and varied experience with decentralization and provides...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Dahal, G.R.
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Capistrano, D.
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[Lessons from forest decentralization: money, justice and the quest for good governance in Asia-Pacific.]
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Lessons from forest decentralization: money, justice and the quest for good governance in Asia-Pacific.
Mery, G.
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Alfaro, R.I.
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Kanninen, M.
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Lobovikov, M.
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[Forests in the global balance - changing paradigms]
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Forests in the global balance - changing paradigms
To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia examines how these two types of in...
Mwangi, E.
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Markelova, H.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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[Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: insights from Africa and Asia]
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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: insights from Africa and Asia