Thinking beyond the canopy
20 September 2010
Climate and development - the challenges in delivering the promises: an editorial essay
Murdiyarso, D. Climate and development - the challenges in delivering the promises: an editorial essay , sds More »
20 September 2010
Les défis de la redistribution des bénéfices monétaires tirés de la forêt pour les administrations locales: une décennie de redevance forestière assise sur la superficie du titre d'exploitation au Cameroun
Le cadre de réglementation camerounais sur les forêts, la faune et la pêche oblige les exploitants forestiers à payer une redevance forestière (RF), dont la moitié doit être reversée aux communes rurales (40 %) et aux villages... More »
06 September 2010
Response to Is the displacement of people from parks only purported' or is it real?' (Schmidt-Soltau 2009)
Curran, B.; Sunderland, T.C.H.; Maisels, F.; Asaha, S.; Balinga, M.; Defo, L.; Dunn, A.; von Loebenstein, K.; Oates, J.; Roth, P.; Telfer, P.; Usongo, L. Response to ‘Is the displacement of people from parks only... More »
01 September 2010
The 2008-2009 timber sector crisis in Africa and some lessons for the forest taxation regime
The 2008 2009 economic crisis has hit severely the African timber sector, with a brutal collapse of the foreign demand. Overall, the impact has been of around the loss of one-third of export and production. Companies have been... More »
01 September 2010
Forest Taxation regime for tropical forestt: lessons from Central Africa
Karsenty, A. Forest Taxation regime for tropical forestt: lessons from Central Africa , More »
31 August 2010
The challenges of redistributing forest-related monetary benefits to local governments: a decade of logging area fees in Cameroon
The Cameroonian regulatory framework on forest, wildlife and fisheries requires logging companies to pay an Area Fee (AF), half of which must be redistributed to rural councils (40%) and villages (10%) neighbouring the logging... More »
30 August 2010
Ecosystem goods and services from plantation forests
Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and... More »