Because ecosystem services are generally not produced and used in the same place, their assessment should consider the flows of services from ecosystems to users. These flows depend on the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems and users, the spatial relationships between them, an...
Locatelli, Bruno
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Imbach, Pablo
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Vignola, R.
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Metzger, M.J.
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Hidalgo, E. J. L.
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[Ecosystem services and hydroelectricity in Central America: modelling service flows with fuzzy logic and expert knowledge]
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Ecosystem services and hydroelectricity in Central America: modelling service flows with fuzzy logic and expert knowledge
This paper highlights the ways that gender analysis has been ignored in the development of forestry and land policy in Senegal. The development of local governance/ rural councils through history and their increased decision-making power that occurred with the 1996 decentralization/ regionalizati...
Gender equality has been studied in community based forest certification projects in two forest user groups in Nepal. contributing to an understanding of gender equality with a focus on participation of women in a forest certification project and on awareness levels of forest users. Experts from ...
Lewark, S.
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George, L.
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Karmann, M.
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[Study of gender equality in community based forest certification programmes in Nepal]
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Study of gender equality in community based forest certification programmes in Nepal
The current trend in forest tenure reform promotes identity-based categories, such as indigenous people, on the assumption that this provides better access to forest resources for marginalized groups. India’s historic Forest Rights Act of 2006 recognizes the traditional rights of the scheduled tr...
Bose, P.
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[Forest tenure reform: exclusion of tribal women’s rights in semi-arid Rajasthan, India]
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Forest tenure reform: exclusion of tribal women’s rights in semi-arid Rajasthan, India
The Congo Basin region of Central Africa contains the second largest contiguous tropical rainforest in the world, which is an important source of livelihood for millions of people. It is also important for climate change adaptation, as well as mitigation policies on Reducing Emissions from Defore...
Brown, H.C.P.
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[Gender, climate change and REDD+ in the Congo Basin forests of Central Africa]
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Gender, climate change and REDD+ in the Congo Basin forests of Central Africa
Can democratic processes favour conservation outcomes in the tropics? This study focuses on local viewpoints within a forested landscape of high conservation significance in East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Stakeholders received posters displaying results from a previous study; these posters ...
Padmanaba, M.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Finding and promoting a local conservation consensus in a globally important tropical forest landscape]
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Finding and promoting a local conservation consensus in a globally important tropical forest landscape
Of particular interest for extractivism in tropical forest areas are useful species that occur at high density, such as the palm tucuma (Astrocaryum tucuma Martius-syn. A. aculeatum G.F.W. Meyer), a colonizer of disturbed areas in the central Amazon, whose edible fruits have found an interesting ...
Schroth, Götz
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Mota, M.S.S. da
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Lopes, R.
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Freitas, A.F. de
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[Extractive use, management and in situ domestication of a weedy palm, Astrocaryum tucuma, in the central Amazon]
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Extractive use, management and in situ domestication of a weedy palm, Astrocaryum tucuma, in the central Amazon
Cocoa-producing countries of West and Central Africa experienced a serious economic crisis in the early 1980s, when the cocoa sector was liberalized and the macroeconomic policies of the sector changed. These institutional changes created new difficulties and challenges for sustainable cocoa farm...
Sonwa, D.J.
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Weise, S.F.
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Adesina, A.A.
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Nkongmeneck, B.A.
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Tchatat, M.
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Ndoye, O.
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[Production constraints on cocoa agroforetry systems in West and Central Africa: the need for integrated pest management and multi-institutional approaches]
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Production constraints on cocoa agroforetry systems in West and Central Africa: the need for integrated pest management and multi-institutional approaches
Good natural resource management is scarce in many remote tropical regions. Improved management requires better local consultation, but accessing and understanding the preferences and concerns of stakeholders can be difficult. Scoring, where items are numerically rated in relation to each other, ...
Sheil, Douglas
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Liswanti, N.
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[Scoring the importance of tropical forest landscapes with local people: patterns and insights]
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Scoring the importance of tropical forest landscapes with local people: patterns and insights
Evidence is presented to show that there is a growing disparity between public perception and scientific evidence relating to the causes of floods, their impacts, and the benefits of mitigation measures. It is suggested that this disparity has arisen through the extensive promotion of certain lan...
Calder, I. R. C.
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Aylward, B.
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[Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management]
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Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management