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Decentralized Natural Resource Management: Equity Impacts on Groundwater Recharge through JFPM in India

Patil, Vikram; Chandrakanth, M.G.; Gangadharappa, N. R. - 2011

of farmers with the help of the line Departments focusing on groundwater recharge. The economic impact on productivity … situation. The net return per acre, net return per acre inch of groundwater and net return per rupee of irrigation water were … from the program. Accordingly from open wells net return per acre, net return per acre inch of groundwater and net return …

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Empirical Accounting of Adaptation to Environmental Change: Organizational Competencies and Biodiversity in Finnish Forest Management

Primmer, Eeva; Wolf, Steven A. - 2009

"Integration of biodiversity conservation into economic utilization of natural resources has become a central response to the challenges of sustainable development. However, the resources and competencies required to implement such an integrated strategy at the level of the individual, the...

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Promising Business Models for Community-Company Collaboration in Brazil and Mexico

Vidal, Natália G.; Donini, Gabriela - 2004

From Introduction: "Agreements between forest companies and forest communities may offer potential solutions to one or more of the conflicting objectives the global forest sector has been required to face. Some studies (Mayers and Vermeulen, 2002; Scherr, White, and Kaimowitz, 2003) have identified...

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Perspectives on Nature, Conservation and Management: The Brazilian Eucalyptus Monoculture through the Eyes of Conservationist NGOs and Local Communities

Campello do Amaral Mello, Cecelia - 2004

From p. 1-2: "Eucalyptus cultivation and the cellulose industry are expanding fast in impoverished areas of Brazil, as a result of the global demand for cellulose, governmental economic incentives and the absence of economic-ecological zoning. Areas formerly devoted to family-farming and...

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Firewood Survey: Theory and Methodology

Thomson, James T.; French, D.; Larson, P. - 1980

includes interviews of forestry officials, rural producer-consumers of wood, and charcoal makers. Group 2, which focuses on …

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DG V, DG VI and DG XVI [Directorates General V, VI, and XVI]

Brown, David - 1998

"Structural Funds are available as non-reimbursable grants, on the basis of co-financing ('part-financing') with the relevant Member States. The level of co-financing depends on the objective of the programme, and is up to a maximum of between 50 and 85%. There are five sets of priority...

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Financing the Management of the Commons: A Case of the Forestry Sector in Sri Lanka

Perera, N.; Senaratne, A. - 2011

"The sustainable management of the commons is now being highly discussed with the recognition of the role played by the commons for social welfare and realizing the necessity of maintaining the stock of common resources for well being of the future generations. However, just like for other...

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SMALLHOLDER FIRE PREVENTION AND BURNING ACTIVITIES UNDER THE THREAT OF ACCIDENTAL FIRE: A HOUSEHOLD MODEL APPLICATION FROM THE TAPAJÃS NATIONAL FOREST IN THE STATE OF PARÃ, BRAZIL...

Bowman, Maria Susannah - 2007

Land-clearing fires set by settlers in the Brazilian Amazon give rise to large scale wildfires that threaten mature forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. Our purpose is to examine labor devoted to fire prevention (firebreak establishment) and burning for crop production for...

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Analysis of Policy Reforms in the New Zealand Forest Manufacturing Sector

Grebner, Donald L. II - 1998

New Zealand experienced dramatic restructuring programsafter the Labor party won the national elections in 1984.Deregulation of price controls, removal of the log exportban, and privatization of public assets were the mainshocks to the forest sector. The purpose of this paper isto analyze the...

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Methods for Quantitatively Describing Tree Crown Profiles of Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.)

Doruska, Paul F. - 1998

Physiological process models, productivity studies, andwildlife abundance studies all require accuraterepresentations of tree crowns. In the past, geometricshapes or flexible mathematical equations approximatinggeometric shapes were used to represent crown profiles.Crown profile of loblolly pine...

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