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  Participation and Sustainability: Partners in Conflict?: The Case of the East Usambara Catchment Forestry Project (EUCFP), Tanzania

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998

  Discusses the concepts of participation and sustainability and how we see them in the context of the EUCFP
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  The Importance of the Local Government in the Management of the Costal Line in Chile: The case of the Sixth Region

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998

  Paper on the legal and policy issues relating to the integrated management of the coastal area of Chile.
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  The Financial Crisis in Asia. Statement by Marcus Noland (IIE)

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998

  The main points of this testimony are that :events in Asia will slow US economic growth, and increase the US trade deficit on the order of $50 billion in the medium-run, with most of this increase generated by trade with Japan and South Korea.
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  Case Study of the Women's Health Care Foundation, Quezon City, Philippines

  Family Health International, 1997

  The Women's Health Care Foundation seeks to expand women's health care services "beyond the womb." Established in 1980, the Foundation works to meet the diverse health needs of Philippine women throughout their life cycle, broadening services beyond the traditional maternal-child health programs to include services for adolescents and postmenopausal women; counseling on sexually transmitted disea
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  Shifting Cultivators as Agents of Deforestation: Assessing the Evidence

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Increasing concern on two fronts - the international environmental movement and growing interest in biodiversity conservation - has brought shifting cultivation back into the foreground of rural development forestry. Opinions remain divided as to the part that shifting cultivation plays in accounting for the high levels of deforestation in the tropics.
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  Assessing "Participation" in Forest Management: Workable Methods and Unworkable Assumptions

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1996

  Paper reports the results of a pre-test in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, of four methods designed to assess the level and nature of participation by local people in forest management quickly and easily. Two of the methods --- the "Iterative Continuum Method" (ICM) and the participatory card sorting method --- were deemed helpful.
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  Assessing People's Perceptions of Forests in Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve [Kalimantan, Indonesia]

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1996

  Previous research identified three important issues of relevance to forest people's roles in sustainable forest management which we address here: the presence of a "conservation ethic", a feeling of closeness to the forest, and a significant forest-culture link.
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  Inter-generational Access to Resources: Developing Criteria and Indicators [forest management in Indonesia]

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1997

  Paper makes use of data from a methodological pre-test conducted in and around Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Its purpose was to contribute to the development of principles, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (SFM).
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  Criteria and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Management : Conservation of Biodiversity

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1996

  Paper is merely a first step in creating a suitable framework for applying a proposed a set of forest biodiversity indicators and verifiers. The framework and the indicators and verifiers require field testing, and we fully expect there to be changes resulting from the field trials, which will be reflected in major improvements in their effectiveness.
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  Rational exploitations: Economic Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  Paper aims to develop economic criteria and indicators that relate to the sustainable management of tropical forests. Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with C&I design.Paper aims to synthesize some of this‘non-C&I’ literature, with a view to distilling some key lessons that are of relevance to C&I design within the forestry sector.

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