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People and protected areas in India
Unasylva, FAO, 1999The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India.DocumentReasons for resiliency: toward a sustainable recovery after Hurricane Mitch
World Neighbors, 2000Report presents the methods and findings of an action research effort to measure and compare the impact of Hurricane Mitch on conventionally and agroecologically farmed lands in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.DocumentThe Forest Industry in the 21st Century
Global Forest and Trade Network GFTN/WWF, 2000Report argues that it is in the industry's interests to demonstrate responsible management, and that this can be achieved through certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council's.Report suggests that despite huge losses from raging forest fires, likely future needs for wood and wood fibre can be met.DocumentWebs of power: forest loss in Guinea
Seminar [Indian journal], 2000Examines the contrast between the formulation of problems in development policy, and the perspectives of villagers in Kissidougou (Guinea) in relationship to 'demonstrably' false ideas about environmental change.DocumentSame platform, different train: the politics of participation
The Corner House, UK, 1998Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India).DocumentForestry policy, non-timber forest products and the rural economy in the wet zone forests in Sri Lanka
IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1999This study sought to:quantify and value the NTFP obtained from the forests by the local communitiesestimate the share of income from non-timber forest products (NTFP> to total household incomeassess how the formation of Forest Protection Committees in villages will affect the level of NTFP collection in the villagesand determine other non-economic functions of the forests that willDocumentEconometric analysis of the causes of forest land use changes in Hainan, China
IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2000Addresses the effects of economic, demographic and institutional factors on land allocation between forestry and other uses.DocumentStructural adjustment and forest resources: the impact of World Bank operations
World Bank, 2001This article looks into the effect structural adjustment has had on forest resources. The article indicates that structural adjustment operations have often been controversial because they are explicitly political.