Current trends to improve the adaptiveness of community forest management focus on monitoring past actions and emphasise internal dynamics. Scenario…
Authors: Wollenberg, E.; Edmunds, D.; Buck, L.
Articles
Introduction: history and conceptual framework
Publication Year : 2001
This chapter describes the history of criteria and indicators work at CIFOR, as an introduction to the subsequent chapters in…
Authors: Colfer, C.J.P.; Byron, Y.; Prabhu, R.; Wollenberg, E.
Between voodoo science and adaptive management: the role and research needs for indicators of sustainable forest management
Publication Year : 2001
The development of appropriate indicators of sustainable forest management is attracting considerable interest, although some controversy still exists regarding their…
Authors: Prabhu, R.; Ruitenbeek, H.J.; Boyle, T.J.B.; Colfer, C.J.P.
Are women important in sustainable forest management
Publication Year : 2001
This paper provides three types of evidence demonstrating womens importance in forest management. The first draws on Colfers extensive, long…
Authors: Colfer, C.J.P.
Technological change and deforestation: a theoretical overview
Publication Year : 2001
This chapter spells out the theoretical framework for the discussion and case studies of the book. First, it provides precise…
Authors: Angelsen, A.; van Soest, D.; Kaimowitz, D.; Bulte, E.
Introduction: the role of agricultural technologies in tropical deforestation
Publication Year : 2001
This introductory chapter sets the scene for the discussion in the edited volume on how new agricultural affects tropical forests.…
Authors: Angelsen, A.; Kaimowitz, D.
Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia
Publication Year : 2001
This paper looks at the impact of the introduction of new soybean technologies on the clearing of natural vegetation (forest…
Authors: Kaimowitz, D.; Smith, J.
Policy recommendations
Publication Year : 2001
This final chapter of the book offers a set of policy recommendations. It presents some typical win-win outcomes, including technologies…
Authors: Kaimowitz, D.; Angelsen, A.
Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss
Publication Year : 2001
What policy lessons derive from the half-century of banana expansion in the coastal region? For that whole period bananas had…
Authors: Wunder, S.
The impact of rubber on the forest landscape in Borneo
Publication Year : 2001
Rubber is the most widespread smallholder tree crop in Southeast Asia. Some analysts have blamed the expansion of rubber for…
Authors: de Jong, W.