The main aim of this paper is to present some thoughts about natural forest management, management plans, information needs in management planning, and how to overcome some of the technical deficiencies existing. Emphasis is placed on management of hardwood neo-tropical natural forest exploitatio...
Sabogal, C.
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[Planes de manejo forestal y necesidades de informacion para el manejo operacional]
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Planes de manejo forestal y necesidades de informacion para el manejo operacional
Mutimukuru, T.
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Kozanayi, W.
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Nyirenda, R.
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[Initiating a dynamic process for monitoring in Mafungautsi state forest, Zimbabwe]
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Initiating a dynamic process for monitoring in Mafungautsi state forest, Zimbabwe
The project aims to achieve long-term sustainable forest management integrating social and silvicultural aspects through the achievement of the following objectives: (1) the assessment of the effect of Reduced Impact Logging on biodiversity, conservation, ecology and socio economics and (2) the a...
Dwiprabowo, H.
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[Reduced impact logging research in Malinau concession, Bulungan, East Kalimantan]
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Reduced impact logging research in Malinau concession, Bulungan, East Kalimantan
This chapter summarizes CIFOR’s work on social criteria and indicators (C&I), developed within commercial establishments oriented toward timber harvesting. These C&I are then examined from the point of view of protected areas, based on Colfer’s experience managing an Indonesian wildlife reserve i...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Prabhu, R.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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McDougall, C.
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Edmunds, D.
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Kowero, G.S.
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[Toward social criteria and indicators for protected areas: one cut on adaptive co-management]
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Toward social criteria and indicators for protected areas: one cut on adaptive co-management
Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasize internal dynamics. We show how scenario methods can be used to 1) enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholder...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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Buck, L.
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[Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting]
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Anticipating change: scenarios as a tool for increasing adaptivity in multistakeholder setting
Efforts to link conservation and development have met with substantial challenge. Although integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) raised hopes that "win-win" outcomes were possible, experience has shown the many difficulties of protecting international and local agendas for cons...
Schelhas, J.
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Buck, L.
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Geisler, C.C.
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[Introduction: the challenge of adaptive collaborative management]
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Introduction: the challenge of adaptive collaborative management
Tropical large-scale industrial plantations are rapidly expanding as a source of industrial wood and fuel and are also often used as part of afforestation and reforestation schemes. The article explores how appropriate design and management of natural forest corridors and remnant patches may be u...
Poulsen, J.
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[Designing sustainable large-scale industrial plantation landscapes: use of natural forest remnants and corridors to maintain biodiversity, retain environmental functions/services, and reduce social tensions between plantation companies and local people]
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Designing sustainable large-scale industrial plantation landscapes: use of natural forest remnants and corridors to maintain biodiversity, retain environmental functions/services, and reduce social tensions between plantation companies and local people
The total amount of industrial plantations around the world is still small compared with the total are of global forests, but plantation forestry in the tropics is expected to increase quickly because of growing demand for timber and the depletion of wood from natural forests. Forestry plantation...
Guizol, P.
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Cossalter, C.
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[Assessing stakeholder agreements: a new research focus for CIFOR's plantation programme in Southeast Asia]
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Assessing stakeholder agreements: a new research focus for CIFOR's plantation programme in Southeast Asia
Efransjah
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Gunarso, P.
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Hassan, Che Hashim
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Santosa, K.D.
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[Consultative planning for effective forest governance: case studies from Malaysia and Indonesia]
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Consultative planning for effective forest governance: case studies from Malaysia and Indonesia
Capistrano, D.
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[Decentralization and forest governance in Asia and the Pacific: trends, lessons and continuing challenges]
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Decentralization and forest governance in Asia and the Pacific: trends, lessons and continuing challenges