Tropical forest protection is an area fraught with difficulty. Many approaches backfire because they go against the … needs of local people who, rather than get actively involved in forest conservation, exploit the resource because they have … might be, this study has examined five forest management approaches in the Melaleuca forests of the Mekong River Delta (or …

The way in which timber companies pay to use forests can have a profound effect on sustainable forest management.A well …-designed pricing policy can help ensure the efficient utilization of forest resources, a long-term sustainable harvest and minimum …

One of the challenges facing forest conservation in Southeast Asia is to develop management systems that deliver … that they wanted to manage forest resources on a privatised basis. Vietnam, like most developing countries, suffers from … the last fifty years, forest cover has dropped from over 43% to less than 28%, leaving more than 13 million hectares of …

This study compares the economic benefits of using forest land in Ratanakiri for the traditional collection of non …-timber forest products by ethnic communities, with the benefits of commercial timber harvesting. The main conclusions of the study … are that non-timber forest products (NTFP) are worth a lot, much more than previously thought. These products are very …

willingness of people in PNG and America to pay for tropical forest conservation and investigated what underlying factors affected … motivating people's willingness to pay for forest conservation. The study concluded that his findings throw doubt onto the …

One potential method for reducing tropical forest destruction is the creation of environmentally …

As in many developing countries, forest cover in Sri Lanka is being rapidly destroyed. The main cause of this loss is … to extend to protected forest areas. The research highlights three policy measures that could bring about significant …

bordering forests - in other words, to boost the amount of income, food and other resources forest gatherers produce on their … farms, so they do not need to use forest resources as much. This can he done in a number of ways, by, for example, improving …