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Decentralisation and Indonesian forestry sector
Center for International Forestry Research, 2001With Indonesia's ongoing processes of decentralisation and regional autonomy significant degrees of authority over forest administration have now, for the first time, been transferred to the provincial and district governments.DocumentTropical Forests and Climate Change
Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001This CFAN Forestry Issues paper gives an overview of global climate change, its causes, its impact on forests, and how forests can help to mitigate it.It concludes that forest-related interventions can have numerous positive spinoff effects apart from carbon sequestration and storage including:improved supply of wood products better management of protected areas increased agricuDocumentResponding to climate change: on the ground in Honduras
Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001Report on project in Honduras aimed at assessing the potential for carbon sequestration through both establishing new plantations and conservation of existing forests.DocumentImpacts of climate change on forests
Indonesian Development Studies, 1998The impact of climate change on global forests in their entirety would in all likelihood be modest. However, its impact on individual forests could be substantial as they adapted to new climate conditions. New forests might rise up in the tundra. Others might wane in places where moisture levels declined.DocumentClimate, biodiversity and forests
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998Highlighting the contention that climate change itself is a major threat to biodiversity this report argues that protecting biological diversity may, in fact, help mitigate other impacts of climate change.DocumentForests, food security and sustainable livelihoods
Unasylva, FAO, 2000Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between food security and problems such as degradation and deforestation.DocumentEnchantment and disenchantment: the role of community in natural resource conservation
Mekonginfo, 1999The concept of community is rarely defined or carefully examined by those concerned with community based approaches to resource use and management. This paper seeks to redress this omission by investigating "community" in work concerning resource conservation and management.DocumentCommunity Forestry in Cameroon [forestry taxation, community wildlife management, tourism, sustainable logging, decentralisation, poverty alleviation]
Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2001Collection which takes as its theme the many and important values which can be derived from community involvement in forest management in the humid tropics, focussing on one of the major timber producers of the tropical world – the West African country of Cameroon.DocumentDistributional impact of community forestry: who is benefiting from Nepal's community forests?
NepalNet, 2001Examines the distributional impact of community forest management on three economic groups (rich, medium and poor) in two selected forest user groups in the Koshi Hills of Nepal with the objective of assessing the costs and benefits of community forest management processes.DocumentManaging forests as common property
Forestry Department, FAO, 1998This comprehensive study brings together available information about the role of common property as a system of governance and its current relevance to forest management and use.A review of indigenous common property systems that have disappeared or survived, together with an examination of the experiences of selected contemporary collective management programmes in different countries, revealsPages