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The Complex Forest

Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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The Complex Forest

Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Resources for the Future

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1933115130

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Forests and Human Health

Assessing the Evidence

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Douglas Sheil,Misa Kishi

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Forests and Human Health

Assessing the Evidence

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Douglas Sheil,Misa Kishi

This study has two central concerns: the state of human health in forests, and the causal links between forests and human health. Within this framework, we consider four issues related to tropical forests and human health. First, we discuss forest foods, emphasizing the forest as a food-producing habitat, human dependence on forest foods, the nutritional contributions of such foods, and nutrition-related problems that affect forest peoples. Our second topic is disease and other health problems. In addition to the major problems—HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and mercury poisoning—we address some 20 other tropical diseases and health problems related to forests. The third topic is medicinal products. We review the biophysical properties of medicinal species and consider related indigenous knowledge, human uses of medicinal forest products, the serious threats to forest sustainability, and the roles of traditional healers, with a discussion of the benefits of forest medicines and conflicts over their distribution. Our fourth and final topic is the cultural interpretations of human health found among forest peoples, including holistic world views that impinge on health and indigenous knowledge. The Occasional Paper concludes with some observations about the current state of our knowledge, its utility and shortcomings, and our suggestions for future research.

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CIFOR

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9792446486

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Which Way Forward

People, Forests, and Policymaking in Indonesia

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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Which Way Forward

People, Forests, and Policymaking in Indonesia

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

Indonesia contains some of Asia‘s most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil of the past few years. The contributors to Which Way Forward? explore recent events in Indonesia, while focusing on what can be done differently to counter the destruction of forests due to asset-stripping, corruption, and the absence of government authority. Contributors to the book include anthropologists, economists, foresters, geographers, human ecologists, and policy analysts. Their concerns include the effects of government policies on people living in forests, the impact of the economic crisis on small farmers, links between corporate debt and the forest sector, and the fires of the late 1990s. By analyzing the nation‘s dramatic circumstances, they hope to demonstrate how Indonesia as well as other developing countries might handle their challenges to protect biodiversity and other resources, meet human needs, and deal with political change. The book includes an afterword by Emil Salim, former Indonesian Minister of State for Population and the Environment and former president of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme. A copublication of Resources for the Future and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).

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Masculinities in Forests

Representations of Diversity

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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Masculinities in Forests

Representations of Diversity

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different forests, and how these relate to forest management. While forestry is widely considered a masculine domain, a significant portion of the literature on gender and development focuses on the role of women, not men. This book addresses this gap and also highlights how there are significant, demonstrable differences in masculinities from forest to forest. The book develops a simple conceptual framework for considering masculinities, one which both acknowledges the stability or enduring quality of masculinities, but also the significant masculinity-related options available to individual men within any given culture. The author draws on her own experiences, building on her long-term experience working globally in the conservation and development worlds, also observing masculinities among such professionals. The core of the book examines masculinities, based on long-term ethnographic research in the rural Pacific Northwest of the US; Long Segar, East Kalimantan; and Sitiung, West Sumatra, both in Indonesia. The author concludes by pulling together the various strands of masculine identities and discussing the implications of these various versions of masculinity for forest management. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of forestry, gender studies and conservation and development, as well as practitioners and NGOs working in these fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367815776, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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1000209822

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Who Counts Most?

Assessing Human Well-being in Sustainable Forest Management

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu

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Assessing Human Well-being in Sustainable Forest Management

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu

Who Counts Most? Assessing Human Well-Being in Sustainable Forest Management presents a tool, ‘the Who Counts Matrix’, for differentiating ‘forest actors’, or people whose well-being and forest management are intimately intertwined, from other stakeholders. The authors argue for focusing formal attention on forest actors in efforts to develop sustainable forest management. They suggest seven dimensions by which forest actors can be differentiated from other stakeholders, and a simple scoring technique for use by formal managers in determining whose well-being must form an integral part of sustainable forest management in a given locale. Building on the work carried out by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on criteria and indicators, they present three illustrative sets of stakeholders, from Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire and the United States, and Who Counts Matrices from seven trials, in an appendix.

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9798764269

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Vignettes from a Year in Borneo: Local People and Conservation

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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Vignettes from a Year in Borneo: Local People and Conservation

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

This book describes the author's experience with her family in Danau Sentarum National Park, in the center of Borneo. She and her husband were working with communities there to manage an area of flooded forests. The book introduces the people and the area, and describes the joys and frustrations of working with NGOs, consulting firms, government and local communities.

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Lulu.com

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1411677595

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People Managing Forests

The Links Between Human Well-Being and Sustainability

By: Carol J.P Colfer,Yvonne Byron

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People Managing Forests

The Links Between Human Well-Being and Sustainability

By: Carol J.P Colfer,Yvonne Byron

How do we extend the 'conservation ethic' to include the cultural links between local populations and their physical environments? Can considerations of human capital be incorporated into the definition and measurement of sustainability in managed forests? Can forests be managed in a manner that fulfills traditional goals for ecological integrity while also addressing the well-being of its human residents? In this groundbreaking work, an international team of investigators apply a diverse range of social science methods to focus on the interests of the stakeholders living in the most intimate proximity to managed forests. Using examples from North America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, they explore the overlapping systems that characterize the management of tropical forests. People Managing Forests builds on criteria and indicators first tested by the editors and their colleagues in the mid-1990s. The researchers address topics such as intergenerational access to resources, gender relations and forest utilization, and equity in both forest-rich and forest-poor contexts. A copublication of Resources for the Future (RFF) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

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1136522697

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Guidelines for Developing, Testing and Selecting Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

A C&I Developer's Reference

By: Ravi Prabhu,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Richard G. Dudley

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Guidelines for Developing, Testing and Selecting Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

A C&I Developer's Reference

By: Ravi Prabhu,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Richard G. Dudley

Preparing for C&I testing. C&I testing procedures. Follow-up analysis. The conceptual basis of C&I development. Three case studies. Literature and further reading.

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9798764242

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Masculinities in Forests

Representations of Diversity

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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The Complex Forest

Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Which Way Forward

People, Forests, and Policymaking in Indonesia

By: Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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People, Forests, and Policymaking in Indonesia

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The Complex Forest

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Which Way Forward

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Who Counts Most?

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Vignettes from a Year in Borneo: Local People and Conservation

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People Managing Forests

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Guidelines for Developing, Testing and Selecting Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

Guidelines for Developing, Testing and Selecting Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

Masculinities in Forests

Masculinities in Forests

The Complex Forest

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Which Way Forward

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