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
Pine forests, consisting primarily of Pinus oocarpa and P caribaea, cover some 2.5 million hectares and are one of the principal natural resources and a significant foundation for development in Honduras. Historically, these forests have been subjected to ecological impacts and economic losses ca...
Rojas, M.R.
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Locatelli, Bruno
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Billings, R.
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[Climate change and outbreaks of Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis in Honduras]
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Climate change and outbreaks of Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis in Honduras
Clough, G.
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Cerutti, P.O.
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Nasi, Robert
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Tacconi, L.
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[Cameroon needs more than approved forest management plans]
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Cameroon needs more than approved forest management plans
Mwangi, E.
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[The struggle to understand: Elinor Ostrom and institutions for the governance of forests]
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The struggle to understand: Elinor Ostrom and institutions for the governance of forests
There is growing consensus that the expanding scope of tropical forestry is not properly reflected in the way students are being trained. Forestry graduates across the tropics remain poorly equipped on how to engage with local stakeholders, on the technical and economic aspects of multiple-use ma...
This paper characterizes the charcoal value chain in Uganda, focusing on production and trade in three districts in the west central region of the country. Data come from surveys of 407 charcoal value chain participants undertaken in 2008. The surveys included 171 charcoal-producing households an...
Shively, G.
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Jagger, P.
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Sserunkuuma, D.
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Arinaitwe, A.
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Chibwana, C.
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[Profits and margins along Uganda's charcoal value chain]
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Profits and margins along Uganda's charcoal value chain
This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting fore...
Mwangi, E.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Yan Sun
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[Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America]
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Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
This review charts out recent developments in gender research in forestry research, with a focus on tropical and dry forests in developing countries. We reviewed 121 publications extracted from the Web of Knowledge database and publications by the Center for International Forestry Research for th...
Mai, Y.H.
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Mwangi, E.
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Wan, M.
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[Gender analysis in forestry research: looking back and thinking ahead]
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Gender analysis in forestry research: looking back and thinking ahead
CIRAD-Forêt research on the dynamics of tropical moist forests has been carried since 1974, in collaboration with different tropical forest research institutes. Research is based on a worldwide network of experimental layouts whose most important sites are located in Africa ( Mopri, Irobo and La ...
Favrichon, V.
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Damio, T.
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Doumbia, F.
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Dupuy, B.
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Higuchi, N.
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Kadir K.
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Maitre, H.F.
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Nguyen-The, N.
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Petrucci, Y.
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Sist, P.
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[Réaction de peuplements forestiers tropicaux à des interventions sylvicoles]
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Réaction de peuplements forestiers tropicaux à des interventions sylvicoles