The future of tropical forests may lie in integrating different revenue sources, such as timber, non-timber products and environmental services,…
Authors: Klimas, C.A.; Kainer, K.A.; de Oliveira Wadt, L.H.
Articles
Implementing multiple forest management in Brazil nut-rich community forests: effects of logging on natural regeneration and forest disturbance
Publication Year : 2012
The encroachment of the logging frontier into Western Amazonia, where non-timber extraction has historically driven regional economies, provides an opportunity…
Authors: Soriano, M.; Kainer, K.A.; Staudhammer, C.L.; Soriano, E.
Multiple use management of tropical production forests: How can we move from concept to reality?
Publication Year : 2012
Constraints in making multiple use forest management a more widespread land use type across the tropics still prevail. Technical and…
Authors: Guariguata, M.R.; Sist, P.; Nasi, R.
Forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: a decade later
Publication Year : 2012
In the Multiple-Use Zone of Guatemalas Maya Biosphere Reserve, the usufruct rights to timber and non-timber forest resources were granted…
Authors: Radachowsky, J.; Ramos, V.H.; McNab, R.B.; Baur, E.H.; Kazakov, N.
Of cecropias, snarks and boojums
Publication Year : 2011
We reply to Webber et al. (2011). Our study, Sheil and Padmanaba (2011), was a preliminary assessment of the alien…
Authors: Sheil, D.; Padmanaba, M.
Falling back on forests: How forest-dwelling people cope with catastrophe in a changing landscape
Publication Year : 2011
How do tropical forest people cope with natural disasters? We worked with four communities in East Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia, before…
Authors: Liswanti, N.; Sheil, D.; Basuki, I.; Padmanaba, M.; Mulcahy, G.
Guidelines for REDD+ Reference Levels: Principles and Recommendations
Publication Year : 2011
This report proposes guidelines for developing REDD+ reference levels (RLs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).1…
Authors: Angelsen, A.; Boucher, D.; Brown, S.; Merckx, V.; Streck, C.; Zarin, D.
Indonesia’s forest moratorium: A stepping stone to better forest governance?
Publication Year : 2011
On 20 May 2011, the government of Indonesia released Presidential Instruction No. 10/2011 on The postponement of issuance of new…
Authors: Murdiyarso, D.; Dewi, S.; Lawrence, D.; Seymour, F.
The social and environmental impacts of biofuel feedstock cultivation: Evidence from multi-site research in the forest frontier
Publication Year : 2011
Preoccupation with global energy supplies and climate change in the global North, and a desire to improve the balance of…
Authors: German, L.; Schoneveld, G.; Pacheco, P.
Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and social impacts of an incipient biofuel program
Publication Year : 2011
Three case studies from Mexico are presented in which the impacts of the recent introduction of jatropha cultivation for biodiesel…
Authors: Skutsch, M; de los Rios, M.; Solis, S.; Riegelhaupt, E.; Hinojosa, D.; Gerfert, S.; Gao, Y.; Masera, O.