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Introduction
The conditions pertaining to both rural development and forestry have changed fundamentally over recent decades. The challenges associated with globalization offer up new options but also threats to rural deve...
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Prospects for Forest-Based Rural Development
This synopsis provides an outlook for the complex issue of tropical forestry and rural development. It is based on the previous chapters, and incorporates historical facts, rural development politics and polic...
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The Challenges Facing Forest-Based Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics
In spite of decades of unprecedented exploitation of resources, rural areas in the tropics and subtropics still possess vast human, biological, mineral, land, forest and other natural resources that potentiall...
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Organizational Changes in Forest Management
This chapter describes the evolution of forest management organizations in the tropics from pre-colonial times up to the present, based on a review of literature and on case studies. In general, organizations ...
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Land Use Planning for Sustainable Forestry
The planning and overall management of rural land use are widely recognized as being complex and complicated processes. The state and the dynamics of land use derive from both the natural endowment of the area...
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Economic Analyses of Rubber and Tea Plantations and Rubber-tea Intercrop** in Hainan, China
This study uses land expectation value (LEV) as a criterion to conduct economic analyses of natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) and tea (Camellia sinensis var. assamica) monoculture, and rubber-tea intercrop**....
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Forests for Integrated Land-Use Development in an Eastern Ethiopian Water Catchment
Although forest has diminished to a few relics, the Eastern Ethiopian highlands are still relatively rich in scattered tree occurrences. Results of a land use survey in the Alemaya catchment comprising 20,000 ...
