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    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    Honduras

    The REDD Programme is predicated on the assumption that developed countries will provide sufficient funds to offset opportunity costs associated with avoiding deforestation. The role of non-market values in indigenous land management may challenge the efficacy of compensation schemes targeted at meeting opportunity costs as calculated in traditional opportunity cost analysis (OCA). Furthermore it is unclear how these economic incentives might affect social and cultural values linked to land-use norms, livelihoods, and local governance.

  2. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2011
    Global

    Despite the widespread agreement on the importance of preserving ecological integrity in conservation and outdoor recreation decision-making processes, traditional metrics analyzing the supply of and demand for conservation and recreation resources have focused on geographical and population-centric units of measurement rather than ecological ones. One tool past researchers have used to inform recreation resource planning is the recreation location quotient (RLQ).

  3. Library Resource

    Forests

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2012
    United States of America

    The documented role of United States forests in sequestering carbon, the relatively low cost of forest-based mitigation, and the many co-benefits of increasing forest carbon stocks all contribute to the ongoing trend in the establishment of forest-based carbon offset projects. We present a broad analysis of forest inventory data using site quality indicators to provide guidance to managers planning land acquisition for forest-based greenhouse gas mitigation projects.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2011
    Mexico

    Under certain circumstances, land titling, property regime changes, and land‐use conversions yield substantial profits. Yet few people possess the wealth, knowledge, and networks to benefit from these procedures. In the Yucatán Peninsula, a region recently targeted as a prominent investment location by the Mexican national government (mainly with the “Tren Maya” megaproject) and the private capital, forestlands collectively owned as ejidos by Mayan peasants are on the trend to complete privatization.

  5. Library Resource
    Critical Review of Selcted Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives

    Applying a Rights Perspective

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, India

    This report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.

  6. Library Resource
    Peuples indigènes et tribaux
    Legislation & Policies
    February, 2011
    Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Journal officiel, 2011-03-03, n° 9, pp. 315-318 PDF 
    Loi  Ministère de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Portefeuille public, Publications- Lois et règlements, Congo (consulté le 2018-08-17)

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Gambia

    The Banjul Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to develop urban poverty reduction policies at local, national, and regional levels, through an assessment of needs and response mechanisms, and as a contribution to the wider-ranging implementation of the Millennium Development Goals.

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