Forestry
- Community management of forests under pressure from economic and demographic changes
- M. Richards / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- This paper considers the evidence surrounding the popular view that common property management regimes (CPMRs) of forest management in Latin America must inevitably break down in the face of economic and demographic pressures. The evi...
- The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector
- I. Wallace; E. Nilsson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which...
- Community based conservation
- M.C.J. Cruz / American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
- This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be pa...
- People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics
- J.A. McNeely; G. Ness / American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
- This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas. The authors see three main reasons why the relationship is problematic: first, biological diversity ("biodiversity") is a...
- Overview of the science of biodiversity and associated issues
- Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993
- Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itse
- From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador
- Sven Wunder / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
- In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are s...
- Global desertification dimensions and costs
- H.E. Dregne; Nan-Ting Chou / Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 1992
- Human face or human facade: adjustment and the health of mothers and children
- A. Costello; F. Watson; D. Woodward / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1994
- Report considers the effects of strutucal adjustment programmes on the health sector . Includes an annotated bibliography
- Forest History Society forestry bibliography
- Forest History Society, 1999
- Environmental labelling's effects on the timber wood industry: case studies (Bryant / TED)
- Trade and Environment, 1999
- The development of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 3
- State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
- Cambodia, where money grows on trees: continuing abuse of Cambodia's forest policy
- Global Witness, 1996
- A report which compares the promises made by the Royal Government of Cambodia at the 1996 Consultative Group meeting with the actions taken by the government in the following months.
- Royal Government of Cambodia (RCG) policy and practice and the case for positive conditionality
- Global Witness, 1996
- A report aimed at the 1996 Consultative Group meeting which makes the case for the application of positive conditionality of future international support for Cambodia
- National Forestry Action Programmes (NFAP) as tools for sustainable forest management (Clement / Unasylva)
- Unasylva, FAO, 1999
- Food from Indonesian forests (Ellen / CSAC)
- Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
- City Dwellers and the Central African Tropical Forest: resource use and perceptions (Trefon / CSAC)
- Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
- The ecology and ethnobiology of human-rainforest interaction in Brunei (a Dusun case study) (Ellen / Bernstein)
- Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
- The nature of the human threat to Papua New Guinea's biodiversity endowment (Filer / CSAC)
- Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
- Indigenous knowledge of the rainforest: perception, extraction and conservation (Ellen / CSAC)
- Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
- Forest knowledge, forest transformation: political contingency, historical ecology and the renegotiation of nature in Central Seram (Ellen)
- Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Kent, 1999
- Forestry Nepal
- Gateway to forestry information on Nepal.
- The Open Forest Science Journal
- The Open Forest Science Journal is an open access, peer reviewed online journal which publishes research articles, reviews, letters and guest edited single topic issues in all areas of forest science. Topics covered in the journal include, forest ecology; conservation and management, tree genetics and physiology, wood quality and production, systems analysis and modeling and silvi...
- Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF)
- The Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) helps to develop the capacity of the people and institutions of the Congo Basin to preserve and manage their forests.
- International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
- The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an intergovernmental organisation promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its members represent about 80 per cent of the world's tropical forests and 90 per cent of the global tropical timber trade.
- Livelihoods and Forestry Programme (LFP)
- The Livelihoods and Forestry Programme promotes more equitable, efficient, and sustainable use of forests by rural communities, focusing particularly on the needs of the 53% of households identified as being poor and socially excluded. The Livelihoods and Forestry Programme (LFP) is a bilateral aid programme of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and the Government...
- Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OSFC)
- International conference on climate and forests held in Oslo, Norway, May 2010
- African Forestry Forum (AFF)
- The African Forest Forum (AFF) is a platform for stakeholders in African forestry.
- The Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC)
- The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) is an international organisation with a vision of local communities actively managing forests in Asia and the Pacific to ensure optimal social, economic and environmental benefits.
- Commonwealth Forestry Association (CFA)
- Focali, Forest, Climate, and Livelihood research network
- Focali (Forest, Climate, and Livelihood research network) is a Swedish research network focusing on forest / bio-energy, climate change and poverty issues. Several Swedish universities and institutions are represented in the network. The purpose is to contribute to the provision of relevant knowledge to Sida and other Swedish authorities for the effective use of forest operations to achieve climat...
