People and Forest — Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People and Forest — Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan write by M. Inoue. This book was released on 2013-11-11. People and Forest — Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. leading to an overall decrease in the world's forest cover. The forests of Asia, in particular, have been strongly impacted. A number of initiatives have suggested forest policy reforms, and the need for the sustainable management of forests has been widely recognized and encouraged. But because implementation of reforms at the local level has been insufficient, it is imperative that local people begin to effectively participate in forest planning and management as well as in protected-area management. The Forest Conservation Project, launched in April 1998 by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), has carried out research activities on forest strategies, including policy analysis and on-site surveys. This book gives an overview of the project's research activities in its first three-year phase (April1998-March 2001). Since viable forest strategies work best when based on the involvement of local people, this report is addressed to stakeholders in the communities of the relevant countries, including local people and authorities, community-based organizations, experts, national agencies, and international institutions.
Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia write by Mario Ivan Lopez. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume introduces dynamic approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental diversity from different disciplinary perspectives at the interface between the natural and social sciences. It brings together research on the region’s environmental resource use and shared ecological challenges in the context of present day globalization to offer insights for possible future directions. The book introduces unique approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental changes and resource management under the influence of intensifying economic change in the region. It also examines the slow erosion of Southeast Asia’s rich environment and addresses serious issues such as the decrease in biodiversity and tropical forests, and the degradation of peat lands. At the same time, it discusses the social issues that are tied to energy-dependent growth and have intensified over the last two decades. It also analyzes the new roadmaps being created to protect, conserve, and manage the environment. By investigating the many ecological issues surrounding us, the volume brings to light the constant struggles we face while trying to develop a more inclusive and equitable approach to natural resources governance. This volume is relevant for students, academics and researchers who have an interest in the Southeast Asian environment and the way in which we use and interact with it.
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands write by Kosuke Mizuno. This book was released on 2016-02-26. Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover peatlands that have been drained and cleared for plantations are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This new book explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region. Concerted action will be required to reduce peatland fires, and a successful policy needs to enhance social welfare and economic survival, support natural conservation and provide a return on investment if there is to be a sustainable society in the peatlands. This book argues that regeneration is possible through a new policy of people’s forestry that includes reforestation and rewetting peat soils. The data come from a major long-term research effort—the humanosphere project—that coordinates work done by researchers from the physical, natural and human or social sciences.
Regreening the Bare Hills
Regreening the Bare Hills - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regreening the Bare Hills write by David Lamb. This book was released on 2010-10-14. Regreening the Bare Hills available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Regreening the Bare Hills: Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region, David Lamb explores how reforestation might be carried out both to conserve biological diversity and to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor. While both issues have attracted considerable attention in recent years, this book takes a significant step, by integrating ecological and silvicultural knowledge within the context of the social and economic issues that can determine the success or failure of tropical forest landscape restoration. Describing new approaches to the reforestation of degraded lands in the Asia-Pacific tropics, the book reviews current approaches to reforestation throughout the region, paying particular attention to those which incorporate native species – including in multi-species plantations. It presents case studies from across the Asia-Pacific region and discusses how the silvicultural methods needed to manage these ‘new’ plantations will differ from conventional methods. It also explores how reforestation might be made more attractive to smallholders and how trade-offs between production and conservation are most easily made at a landscape scale. The book concludes with a discussion of how future forest restoration may be affected by some current ecological and socio-economic trends now underway. The book represents a valuable resource for reforestation managers and policy makers wishing to promote these new silvicultural approaches, as well as for conservationists, development experts and researchers with an interest in forest restoration. Combining a theoretical-research perspective with practical aspects of restoration, the book will be equally valuable to practitioners and academics, while the lessons drawn from these discussions will have relevance elsewhere throughout the tropics.
Customary Land Tenure in East Kalimantan
Customary Land Tenure in East Kalimantan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Customary Land Tenure in East Kalimantan write by G. Simon Devung. This book was released on . Customary Land Tenure in East Kalimantan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
