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  1. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2007
    New Zealand
  2. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2007
    New Zealand
  3. Library Resource
    January, 2007
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    There is an increasing global demand for oil palm, but its production provokes societal debate on the environmental and social aspects that surround it, particularly in southeast Asia. This study, at the request of request of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), ISRIC-World Soil Information, Alterra and Plant Research International, assessed the biophysical land suitability for the production of oil palm in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2008
    Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This report provides an overview of the issues, root causes, and driving forces behind the crimes related to illegal logging. The report includes a comprehensive review of existing initiatives to address the challenges of illegal logging in Southeast Asia. The results are derived mainly from a literature review of various publications, websites, and project documents, but also from personal communication through interviews with people working on the issues of illegal logging in the region.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2008
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This paper summarises a study undertaken by the Indonesian Forest Climate Alliance (IFCA) to support Indonesian stakeholders to participate in global negotiations. The authors note that the objective of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) payment distribution mechanisms is to support policies and measures that reduce deforestation and degradation through transfer of revenues from international REDD funds or carbon markets to national levels.

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2008
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This paper notes that under a sustainable, well-managed, logging regime, Papua – the most densely forested part of Indonesia – can potentially contribute substantial forest revenues for socio-economic development. Yet, it remains the poorest region in the country, in part due to widespread corruption involving public and private actors.The paper argues that, reforming the management of these resources – specifically, introducing accountability and transparency into the collection of forest revenues – is a key precondition for welfare improvements in the region.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Papua New Guinea, Indonesia

    This report refers to the follow-up activities in Mamberamo developed by CIFOR and CI in 2006. The new activities included additional socio-economic surveys in three villages. The accuracy of the participatory maps of the natural resources and important landscape features were improved using GPS ground checks. Participatory maps of territorial land claims and land use by clans were also drafted. Additional information was then collected on local biodiversity monitoring and control of the land and resources.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Australia

    The majority of landscapes around the world have been modified or transformed by human activities to meet the needs of human societies. The loss of native vegetation for agricultural development affects the sustainability of growing proportion of the world's ecosystems. Factors such as land tenure, roads and agricultural intensification, together with biophysical properties, have been cited as drivers of deforestation.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Angola, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, Nigeria, Gambia, Marshall Islands, Australia, Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Congo, Djibouti, Comoros, Eritrea, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Madagascar, Cameroon, Maldives, Gabon, Brazil

    Mangroves, commonly found along sheltered coastlines in the tropics and subropics, fulfil important socio-economic and envioronmental functions: providing wood and non-wood forest products, protecting shores against wind, waves and water currents; conserving biological diversity; protecting coral reefs, sea-grass beds and shipping lanes against siltation; and providing habitat, spawning grounds and nutrients for a variety of fish and shellfish, including many commercial species.

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