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Replicable tools and frameworks for biocarbon development in West Africa.

Published online: 17 May 2017

Authors: Sehmi, R. & Mbow, C. & Pitkanen, S. & Cross, H. & Berry, N. & Riddell, M. & Heiskanen, J. & Aynekulu, E.

Content type: Bulletin

This working paper is intended to help countries in West Africa, and local communities and farmers to adopt climate-smart land management practices th...

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Unpacking the interface of modernization, development and sustainability in indigenous Guna communities of Panama.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Lam, R. D. & Gasparatos, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

This study elicits the main development challenges for the indigenous social-ecological system (SES) of the Guna people in Panama, which is characteri...

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Can local communities afford full control over wildlife conservation? The case of CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe.

Published online: 17 Apr 2019

Authors: Ntuli, H. & Muchapondwa, E. & Okumu, B.

Content type: Bulletin

Wildlife is widely becoming an important vehicle for rural development in most third-world countries across the globe. Policymakers are usually not in...

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Nature's stewards: how local buy-in can help tackle wildlife crime in Uganda.

Published online: 25 May 2016

Authors: Travers, H. & Roe, D. & Plumptre, A. & Baker, J. & Rwetsiba, A. & Milner-Gulland, E. J.

Content type: Bulletin

High levels of illegal resource use in two of Uganda's national parks show the need to rethink current approaches to combatting wildlife crime. Our re...

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Applying ecology for cave management in China and neighbouring countries.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Whitten, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Caves are arguably the hottest of the biodiversity hotspots as measured by endemism and threat, yet they receive very little attention or appropriate ...

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Community-based approach to sustainable stingless beekeeping in Sorsogon, Philippines.

Published online: 12 Jun 2019

Authors: Jovillano-Mostoles, M. D.

Content type: Bulletin

Stingless beekeeping technology as an alternative livelihood in the Bicol region involves hunters, beekeepers, and assemblers of bee products. However...

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Protected areas and the neglected contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities: struggles for environmental justice in the caatinga dry forest.

Published online: 03 Apr 2024

Authors: Dawson, N. & Carvalho, W. D. & Bezerra, J. S. & Todeschini, F. & Tabarelli, M. & Mustin, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

enThis link goes to a English sectionptThis link goes to a English section Despite evidence about the contribution of Indigenous Peoples and local com...

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Long-term change in vegetation and soil microbial communities during the phased restoration of traditional meadow grassland.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Bardgett, R. D. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P. & Evans, P. & Quirk, H. & Hobbs, P. J. & Kometa, S. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoration of high plant species diversity to sites where it has been reduced by intensive grassland management requires identification of appropriat...

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Guiding principles for delivering coastal wetland carbon projects.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Crooks, S. & Orr, M. & Emmer, I. & Unger, M. von & Brown, B. & Murdiyarso, D.

Content type: Bulletin

This brief is summarized from UNEP and CIFOR 2014 'Guiding principles for delivering coastal wetland carbon projects' by the United Nations Environmen...

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A dynamic model for above-ground growth and dry matter production in a forest community.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Kanninen, M. & Hari, P. & Kellomaki, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A model was developed to simulate the production rate of above-ground dry matter by trees and by ground vegetation. Values for a Scots pine stand in c...

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