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Will the practice of collecting wild honey wearing no clothes become a widespread practice in Zimbabwe? Or will beekeeping take over as the main way that people acquire honey? Both practices impact on forest resources; how can the foresters influence the uptake of these ideas?. This paper describ...


Haggith, M.Prabhu, R.Colfer, C.J.P.Ritchie, B.Thomson, A.Mudavanhu, H.[Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks]Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks

To design viable strategies to implement sustainable forest management, tools are needed that allow the understanding and management of the driving forces behind conflicting opinions and divergent solutions. The approach of Thompson et al. (1990) to cultural theory—because of its descriptive powe...


Pokorny, B.Schanz, H.[Empirical determination of political cultures as a basis for effective coordination of forest management systems]Empirical determination of political cultures as a basis for effective coordination of forest management systems
Assembe-Mvondo, S.[A review of States practice of sustainable forests management with regard to some international conventions]A review of States practice of sustainable forests management with regard to some international conventions

One of the main objectives of the 1994 Cameroonian forestry law is to improve the management of production forests by including minimum safeguards for sustainability into compulsory forest management plans. As of 2007, about 3.5 million hectares (60%) of the productive forests are harvested follo...


Cerutti, P.O.Nasi, RobertTacconi, L.[Sustainable forest management in Cameroon needs more than approved forest management plans.]Sustainable forest management in Cameroon needs more than approved forest management plans.
Autor: Larson, A.M.

Forestry decision-making is still largely centralised in Guatemala. Nevertheless, elected municipal governments can now play a key role in local forest management. These local governments, with some exceptions, are the principal local institutions empowered to participate in natural resource auth...


Larson, A.M.[Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry]Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry

This paper describes the general concepts, meaning, and definitions of sustainability and proposes the use of soft methodologies, particularly fuzzy set theory, for its assessment. Basic elements and concepts of fuzzy sets are described, including membership functions and their interpretations in...


Mendoza, G.A.Prabhu, R.[Fuzzy methods for assessing criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management]Fuzzy methods for assessing criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management
Autor: Oyono, P.R.

Theory informs us that decentralisation, a process through which powers, responsibilities and resources are devolved by the central state to lower territorial entities and regionally/locally elected bodies, increases efficiency, participation, equity, and environmental sustainability. Many types ...


Oyono, P.R.[One step forward, two steps back?: paradoxes of natural resources management decentralisation in Cameroon]One step forward, two steps back?: paradoxes of natural resources management decentralisation in Cameroon

This article examines the institutional matrix associated with logging and forest pioneering in a district on Sumatra. It draws together theoretical approaches to develop a framework for analysing the operation of competing forms of institutional power and control. The article argues that the gov...


McCarthy, J.F.[Power and interest on Sumatra’s rainforest frontier: clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas valley]Power and interest on Sumatra’s rainforest frontier: clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas valley

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