Sparsely populated and abundant in rich and exotic biodiversity, the vast and highly inaccessible Mamberamo Basin in Indonesia’s West Papua (Irian Jaya) contains some of the world’s most pristine rainforests. The region’s 7,000 people and their communities are spread over 7.7 million hectares of ...
Boissiere, M.
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Heist, M. van
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Sheil, Douglas
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Basuki, I.
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Frazier, S.
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Ginting, U.
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Wan, M.
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Hariadi, B.
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Hariyadi, H.
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Kristianto, H.D.
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Bemei, J.
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Haruway, R.
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Marien, E.R.C.
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Koibur, D.P.H.
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Watopa, Y.
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Rachman, I.
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Liswanti, N.
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[Pentingnya sumberdaya alam bagi masyarakat lokal di daerah aliran sungai Mamberamo, Papua, dan implikasinya bagi konservasi]
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Pentingnya sumberdaya alam bagi masyarakat lokal di daerah aliran sungai Mamberamo, Papua, dan implikasinya bagi konservasi
Kartawinata, K.
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[Biodiversity conservation in relation to plants used for medicines and other products in Indonesia]
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Biodiversity conservation in relation to plants used for medicines and other products in Indonesia
Engel, S.
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López, R.
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Palmer, C.
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[Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia]
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Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia
Natural resource management problems in agriculture often transcend field or farm boundaries. What happens in one part of landscape depends on management practices in another. Pest and disease problems in crops, soil erosion, problems related to quantity and quality of water are all examples of t...
Ravnborg, Helle Munk
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Guerrero, MP
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[El análisis de los protagonistas sobre la administración de los recursos naturales]
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El análisis de los protagonistas sobre la administración de los recursos naturales
Girvetz, Evan H.
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Zganjar, Chris
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[Dissecting indices of aridity for assessing the impacts of global climate change]
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Dissecting indices of aridity for assessing the impacts of global climate change
Despite the recognition that policy processes are important for sustainable natural resources management (NRM), there is concern that agricultural research and technology development have not been reflected in policy change, nor have they affected decision-making processes of wider communities. M...
Sanginga, Pascal C.
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Kamugisha, RN
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Martin, A
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Kahuru, A
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Stroud, Ann
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[Facilitating participatory processes for policy change in natural resource management : Lessons from the highlands of southwestern Uganda]
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Facilitating participatory processes for policy change in natural resource management : Lessons from the highlands of southwestern Uganda
The thesis of this paper is that the "rational fool" syndrome can be applied to mainstream public sector agricultural research that is conducted in a way that is rational in the short term, but acts against its own long-term viability. Historically, a main concern of such research has been to max...
Ashby, J.A.
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[Integrating research on food and the environment: An exit strategy from the rational fool syndrome in agricultural science]
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Integrating research on food and the environment: An exit strategy from the rational fool syndrome in agricultural science
Ramírez Gomez, Sara
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Torres Vitolas, Carlos A.
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Schreckenberg, Kate
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Honzák, Miroslav
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Cruz García, Gisella S.
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Willcock, Simon P.
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Palacios, Erwin
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Pérez Miñana, Elena
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Verweij, Pita
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Poppy, Guy
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[Analysis of ecosystem services provision in the Colombian Amazon using participatory research and mapping techniques]
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Analysis of ecosystem services provision in the Colombian Amazon using participatory research and mapping techniques
Conversion of natural forest to other land uses could lead to significant changes in catchment hydrology, but the nature of these changes has been insufficiently investigated in tropical montane catchments, especially in Africa. To address this knowledge gap, we identified stream water sources an...
Jacobs, S.R.
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Timbe, E.
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Weeser, B.
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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Breuer, L.
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[Land use alters dominant water sources and flow paths in tropical montane catchments in East Africa]
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Land use alters dominant water sources and flow paths in tropical montane catchments in East Africa