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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 econo...
Authors: Soriano, M.;Kainer, K.A.;Staudhammer, C.L.;Soriano, E.
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment
Publication Year : 2012
This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 1015 years in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers world-wide show...
Authors: Van Vliet, N.;Mertz, O.;Heinimann, A.;Langanke, T.;Pascual, U.;Schmook, B.;Adams, C.;Schmidt-Vogt, D.;Messerli, P.;Leisz, S. J.;Castella, J.C.;Jørgensen, L.;Birch-Thomsen, T.;Hett, C.;Bech-Bruun, T.;Ickowitz, A.;Vu, K.C.;Yasuyuki, K.;Fox, J.;Padoch, C.;Dressler, W.;Ziegler, A.D.
Whose consent?: hunter-gatherers and extractive industries in the Northeastern Philippines
Publication Year : 2012
There is increasing international recognition of indigenous peoples right to influence development activities in their territori...
Authors: Minter, T.;de Brabandera, V.;van der Ploeg, J.;Persoon, G.A.;Sunderland, T.C.H.
The prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: a look at three payment schemes
Publication Year : 2012
Global conservation discourses and practices increasingly rely on market-based solutions to fulfill the dual objective of forest c...
Authors: Phuc, X.T.;Dressler, W.H.;Mahanty, S.;Pham, T.T.;Zingerli, C.
Rights and wellbeing: an analytical approach to global case comparison of community forestry
Publication Year : 2012
Many countries have adopted policies supported community forestry. Trends towards community empowerment, livelihood improvement an...
Authors: Purnomo, H.;Arum, G.A.;Achdiawan, R.;Irawati, R.H.
Enhancing forest tenure reforms through more responsive regulations
Publication Year : 2012
Forest tenure reforms have offered new opportunities for communities to obtain formal rights to forests and forest benefits, but a...
Authors: Larson, A.M.;Pulhin, J.M.
Co-management in community forestry: how the partial devolution of management rights creates challenges for forest communities
Publication Year : 2012
Forest tenure reform has opened economic and livelihood opportunities for community forestry management through the devolution of ...
Authors: Cronkleton, P.;Pulhin, J.M.;Saigal, S.
Smallholders and communities in timber markets: conditions shaping diverse forms of engagement in tropical Latin America
Publication Year : 2012
Forest tenure reforms have granted smallholders and communities formal rights to land and forest resources. This article explores ...
Authors: Pacheco, P.
Secondary level organisations and the democratisation of forest governance: case studies from Nepal and Guatemala
Publication Year : 2012
This paper examines the emerging role of secondary level organisations in the democratisation of forest governance by analysing tw...
Authors: Paudel, N.S.;Monterroso, I.;Cronkleton, P.