Forests News
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Balancing Conservation and Development in the Tropics
By Angela Dewan The world is looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions, alleviate poverty, feed a booming…
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Focus on Forests: ‘Humanity’s Only Habitat’
By Angela Dewan There were high hopes last year that world leaders at the COP15 climate change conference…
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Sources, sinks and cycles
For a copy of the paper by Lewis et al, please write to Simon Lewis at [email protected]. For more information,…
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Don’t forget the second D
Improved Tropical Forest Management for Carbon Retention, Francis E. Putz, Pieter A. Zuidema, Michelle A. Pinard, Rene G. A. Boot,…
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Who (still) owns the world’s forests?
Sunderlin, William D.; Hatcher, Jeffrey and Liddle, Megan. 2008. From Exclusion to Ownership? Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing Forest Tenure…
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The Other Food Crisis
Nasi, R.; Brown, D.; Wilkie, D.; Bennett, E.; Tutin, C.; van Tol, G.; Christophersen, T. 2007. Conservation and Use of…
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The Playing Field Needs a New Slant
Anne M. Larson and Jesse C. Ribot. 2007. The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field.…
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Where there’s a will…
Luca Tacconi. 2007. “Illegal Logging and the Future of the Forest”. Chapter 12 in Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and…
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Are Partnerships Passé?
The articles referred to in this edition of Polex are listed below. For convenience, they have been combined in to…
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Forests and floods, revisited
The CIFOR & FAO report on Floods and Forests can be downloaded from http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Publications/Detail?pid=1738 The study by Bradshaw et al.…
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A Rare Exception
Only rarely do we take advantage of POLEX to do anything other than alert readers to interesting new research findings.…
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Should good guys finish last?
If you would like to receive a free copy of the paper by Sven Wunder, please email Ligia Pereira at:…
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The Promise of Non-Timber Forest Products: Roadmaps to Success?
If you would like to receive a free copy of the paper by Koen Kusters et al or Brian Belcher…
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The UNFF: Set up to Fail?
If you would like to purchase the book, you can visit: http://shop.earthscan.co.uk/ProductDetails/mcs/productID/707 You could also request a pdf file of…
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The Future of Forests in Post-Conflict Congo
For more information on the The International Conference on Sustainable Management of the Forests in the Democratic Republic of the…
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