In this chapter, the authors discuss the history of decentralization in Brazil, analyze the institutional and legal characteristic...

Authors: Toni, F.;Kaimowitz, D.

Porto de Moz is a small municipality (22.460 inhabitants) bordered by the Xingu and Amazonas Rivers, in the state of Pará. The lo...

Authors: Salgado, I.;Kaimowitz, D.

Since the end of the 1990s, municipal governments are increasingly adopting a pro-environment/pro-forest discourse in Amazonia. In...

Authors: Toni, F.;Kaimowitz, D.

The eastern part of Kutai Regency (lowland Kutai) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia is susceptible to large-scale wildfires during sev...

Authors: Toma, T.

This book is about the impacts of China\'s reforms on the forestry sector of its economy. This chapter introduces the objective of...

Authors: Hyde, W.F.;Jintao Xu;Belcher, B.

This chapter explains the purpose and methods of the book Local Forest Management. The book uses 12-20 case studies in each China,...

Authors: Edmunds, D.;Wollenberg, E.;Contreras, A.P.;Liu Dachang;Kelkar, G.;Sarin, M.;Singh, N.M.

This chapter examines China’s experiment on devolution policies for local forest management. These policies included the transfer...

Authors: Liu Dachang;Edmunds, D.

This chapter synthesizes results from case studies of the effects of devolution policies on the management of forests in three Asi...

Authors: Edmunds, D.;Wollenberg, E.

Authors: Kobayashi, S.;Ueda, E.

This chapter describes the change in the institutional arrangements for property rights to the former collective forest lands and ...

Authors: Liu Dachang;Edmunds, D.