The chapter begins with a summary of the state of rural poverty in China and the potential role of forestry. It continues with a g...

Authors: Ruiz Perez, M.;Belcher, B.;Maoyi Fu;Xiaosheng Yang

China has serious environmental problems but China has begun to address some of them. The data for environmental assesments of Chi...

Authors: Sayer, J.A.;Changjin Sun

This final chapter reviews the findings of the empirical chapters, summarizes authors observations for China, and explains these o...

Authors: Hyde, William F.;Jintao Xu;Belcher, B.;Runsheng Yin;Jinlong Liu

This chapter seeks to address the apparent tensions that have arisen between ‘traditional’ and ‘participatory’ research approa...

Authors: McDougall, C.;Braun, A.

This chapter draws on case studies and literature to generate a number of ‘principles of good practices’ in participatory resear...

Authors: Vernooy, R.;McDougall, C.

This case study summary highlights CIFOR and partners’ participatory action research based project entitled ‘Adaptive and Collab...

Authors: McDougall, C.;Prabhu, R.;Kusumanto, Y.

Adaptive Co-Management (ACM) is an integrative approach for implementing sustainable forest management, based on a main hypothesis...

Authors: Pokorny, B.;Cayres, G.;Nunes, W.;Segebart, D.;Drude, R.

Beginning in 1997, international prices for black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) boomed for about three years, coinciding with the Asian...

Authors: Wadley, R.L.;Sissman, K.

This account summarises studies based on tree data from plots established during the 1930s and 1940s in Budongo, a Ugandan rain fo...

Authors: Sheil, D.

After decades of central government control, the recent decentralization laws devolved authority in many areas, including natural ...

Authors: Resosudarmo, I.A.P.