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CONSERVING THE PEACE:
RESOURCES, LIVELIHOODS AND
SECURITY
Richard Matthew, Mark Halle and Jason
Switzer (eds.) (2002)
In 2000, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the International Institute for Sustainable Development convened an international Task Force of leading experts to assess the linkages between environment and security, and to begin converting what has largely been an academic debate into tools for conservation planning. The Task Force subsequently commissioned a number of case studies from around the world, which illustrate the linkages between environment and security. Cases by leading authors explored the complex roots of conflict in Rwanda, Indonesia, Nicaragua and Pakistan. They tackled the ecological sources of vulnerability to Hurricane Mitch and the strange conflict between Canada and Spain over the Atlantic turbot fishery. Based on its research, the Task Force concluded that resource degradation and disaster largely affect the lives and livelihoods of the millions of poor around the world, especially those in indigenous and traditional communities. Loss of livelihoods, in turn, leads to social tension, migration and settlement in inappropriate areas, and often to conflict. It follows then that targeted investments in environmental conservation and the promotion of sustainable and equitable use of natural resources may be significant factors in mitigating disaster risk, reducing in 2000 to wide acclaim. The cases and their recommendations were published in 2002 as a book, Conserving the Peace, launched at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
Winnipeg: IISD and IUCN. ISBN: 1-895536-62-6
Source: IISD website at: http://www.iisd.org/natres/security/nrls.asp
Download at: http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2002/envsec_conserving_peace.pdf
BREAKING THE CONFLICT TRAP
Paul Collier, Lani Elliot, Håvard Hegre, Anke
Hoeffer, Marta Reynal-Querol and Nicholas
Sambanis (2003)
This policy research report prepared for the World Bank has among its main objectives to alert the international community about the negative consequences that civil wars have on development. Authors point out the efficacy of development as an instrument for prevention and mitigation of conflict. This relation also works in the opposite direction since the combination of violent conflicts and failure of development usually leads to a vicious circle in which war retards development and, in its turn, development retards war. Civil wars have frequently adverse ripple effects that not only affect combatants and have an impact far beyond national frontiers, thus making them an issue that concerns both national governments and international community.
The first part of the book addresses such effects, at the national scale, on the neighboring countries, and at the global scale. The second part focuses more closely on the factors determining the incidence of violent conflicts, the links between conflicts and development –or the lack of it-, and circumstances making countries prone to fall into “conflict traps”. The third and last part calls for national and international intervention and suggests some policies that might be effective in reducing conflict incidence worldwide.
Many of the articles referred to in this report
can be found on the project’s website http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/conflict.
The electronic version of this book can be
downloaded from the World Bank website:
http://econ.worldbank.org/prr/CivilWarPRR/text-26671
You can also purchase the hard copy at
World Bank’s website: http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=1896154
Price: $24
Published May 2003 by Oxford University
Press, World Bank
ISBN: 0-8213-5481-7
SKU: 15481
To order by mail:
The World Bank
P.O. Box 960
Herndon, VA 20172-0960
U.S.A.
WAR AND TROPICAL FORESTS
Steven V. Price (ed.) (2003)
This volume is a collection of essays that first emerged as papers and presentations prepared for the international conference War and Tropical Forests: New Perspectives in Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict. The conference called the attention to the conflicts at that time affecting conservation, as well as to the challenges that conservationists and conservationrelated activities faced during conflict and post-conflict periods. Preparing conservationist staff and communities for times of crises, maintaining conservation program capacities during conflict, addressing the causes of conflict and directing conservation efforts toward the reduction and prevention of conflicts are examples of such challenges. The main topics addressed in War and Tropical forests include the destructive impact of violent conflicts on forests and conservation capacities, which not only occur during wartime but can also be severe in the postconflict period; the determining role that local communities can play in conservation during violent conflicts; the role of international market forces and economic agendas in generating and fuelling conflict; and the negative effects of corruption and weak governance in conservation activities and conflict management. The eight chapters of the book include case studies from Colombia, Nicaragua, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and Rwanda.
Published by Food Products Press (The Haworth Press), Inc. and co-published simultaneously as Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Volume 16, number 3/4, 2003. ISBN 1-56022-09-6; 219pp. Price: $ 24.95 paperback
This book can be purchased at Haworth
Publisher’s website:
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It can also be ordered at the following
mailing address:
The Haworth Press Inc.
10 Alice St.
Binghamton, NY 13904
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NATURE IN WAR; BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVATION DURING
CONFLICTS
Esther Blom, Wim Bergmans, Irene
Dankelman, Pita Verweij, Margje Voeten en
Piet Wit (2000)
The book, published by the Working Group Ecology and Development, a Dutch group of independent nature conservationists, is based on an international seminar on that same subject. During the seminar, it became clear that nature can often be spared during conflicts, and this contributes significantly to the opportunities of people to rebuild their society after the conflict ends. The publication sheds light on the subject from many different angles. For example, a number of cases by local NGOs from conflict areas (a.o. DRC, Burma, Colombia) illustrate the enormous and long-term damage to nature that has been caused by conflicts, now and in the past. Furthermore, these cases illustrate the admirable NGO commitment to protect the environment of the local people as much as possible. It appears that nature conservation activities neutralise conflicts because it brings together parties that would normally not cooperate.
In the publication, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence emphasises the importance of nature conservation during conflicts. The UNHCR already works on environmental projects in and around refugee camps to prevent environmental destruction a result of the crowds of people who are temporarily dependent on the natural resources of the area.
The book includes very personal experiences of people directly affected by conflicts and still fight for the conservation of biodiversity. Additionally, it gives an overview of the growing realization on the part of Dutch and international agencies that nature could and should be spared during conflicts. Concrete recommendations for the various stakeholders during conflicts are presented also.
International Seminar of the Working Group Ecology and Development Mededelingen Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming nr. 37, Werkgroep Ecologie en Ontwikkeling, ISSN 0923-5981
Currently the publication is out of print.
Please contact the secretariat of the Working
Group Ecology and Development for more
information or photocopies of the
publication:
E-mail: WEO@nciucn.nl
Phone: +31 20 6261732
GUERRA, SOCIEDAD Y MEDIO
AMBIENTE (WAR, SOCIETY AND
ENVIRONMENT)
M. Cárdenas and M. Rodríguez B. (eds.)
2004
The book, also discussed in the article by Rodríguez tries to clarify the complex relations between environment, social conflicts, war and peace in Colombia. It presents different aspects of the nature of armed conflict and its effects on land and forests in Colombia. Environmental policies during the war are discussed, specifically communal reforestation, policies on parks with the people, the ban of illicit cultivations and anti-drugs policy, and the road policy and its relations with forest in the context of the country’s social conflict. It also includes an analysis of the oil sector and its relationship with environment and conflict, and a methodological and conceptual essay on “sociology of environmental conflicts”, built from analysing issues on oil and ethnic groups in the Amazon region.
This book is currently available in Spanish only.
Foro Nacional Ambiental – Colombia.
ISBN: 958-8101-17-4
Bogotá, Prisma Asociados Ltda.
EXTREME CONFLICTS AND
TROPICAL FORESTS
Deanna Donovan, Wil de Jong and Kenichi
Abe (eds.) (forthcoming)
In nine chapters this book brings together various aspects of extreme conflicts in tropical forests. Seven chapters were presented as papers at the Symposium on Extreme Conflicts and Tropical Forests organized by the Japan Center for Area Studies in Osaka, Japan, in November 2001.
Many tropical forests are located in recently formed, volatile states. Institutional instability and rapid changes of resource ownership and user rights have helped the spread of conflicts into forested regions. Forests provide basic needs to those who flee from conflict and, often at the same time, financial input to warring parties. Tropical forests remain out of reach of most government and law enforcement agencies and readily become subject of overexploitation, poaching and conversion for the production of illegal crops. In addition, extreme conflicts severely hamper conservation of endangered species and their habitats.
Extreme conflicts in tropical forests are part and parcel of the wider subject of environmental decline. The link between extreme conflicts and tropical forests is central to a number of recent Forest Law Enforcement and Governance initiatives and has become a prominent theme on the agenda at high level international meetings. For instance, the issue of ‘conflict timber’, i.e. timber that is used to fund wars, has been debated at the United Nations Security Council. As a result, Liberian timber has been banned from the international market.
The book contains case studies from tropical Asia, Africa and America. The analysis includes causes and consequences of extreme conflicts in social, economic, and environmental terms, illicit crop production, post-conflict challenges of forest management, conflict timber, patronage, conservation and the potential of peace parks.
Please contact Wil de Jong (wdejong@idc.minpaku.ac.jp) for information on ordering the book.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND
VIOLENT CONFLICTS: OPTIONS
AND ACTIONS
Ian Bannon and Paul Collier (eds.) (2003)
Natural Resources and Violent Conflicts is the product of the research on the links between natural resources and conflict undertaken by the World Bank’s Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit and the Development Research Group. This collection of articles holds that even though natural resources are never the only cause of conflict, natural resource exploitation has historically played an important role in triggering, prolonging or fueling conflict. Countries with low income and strong dependence on primary commodities face higher risks of conflict incidence, and once civil war breaks out it acts as development in reverse, having devastating consequences largely over civilians and usually affecting more than one country. The book discusses practical approaches and policies that can be adopted by international community to assist developing countries in better managing their resources. Authors focus mainly on the mechanisms for making sure that revenues from natural resource exploitation do not start or sustain any violent conflict. Regulations, schemes and instruments for monitoring and regulating conflict trade revenues at the national, regional and global scale are documented and discussed, and areas for effective international action are identified.
Published by the World Bank. 2003: 409 pp. ISBN 0-8213-5503-1; Price $30
Introduction and table of contents can be
downloaded free of charge at the same
electronic address.This book can be
purchased on-line at the World Bank
website: http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=2350727
Orders via post:
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VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS
Michael Watts and Nancy Lee Peluso (2001)
Cornell University Press
Publishing date: August 2001
ISBN 0801487110
Price $ 29.95
453 pages
GREED AND GRIEVANCE: ECONOMIC
AGENDAS IN CIVIL WARS
Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (eds.)
(2000)
First conceived in the conference “Economic Agendas in Civil Wars” held in London in 1999, this book explores the ways in which economic factors frequently shape the behavior of the parties to a violent conflict. Authors suggest looking at war not merely as a disruption of the ruling social, political and economic order but as the emergence of a system that benefits certain groups – government officials, traders, combatants and some international actors- while impoverishing others. This perspective can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the complex circumstances that generate and keep conflicts going for years sometimes even decades. Though varying largely from case to case, profits from violent conflicts are often intimately linked to access and power over natural resources in the conflict area, of which evidence is provided through several chapters of the book.
The first section of this volume addresses the economy of civil wars through analysing the economic agendas of the partakers as well as the means by which globalisation creates new opportunities for the partaker’s elites to engage in their economic agendas. The second section focuses on the possible participation of external actors, including governments, international organisations, NGO’s and private companies in shifting such economic agendas toward peace.
Price: $ 22.50, Lynne Rienner Publishers: 251 pp. ISBN 1555878687
Order from: Lynne Rienner Publishers
1800 30th Street, Suite 314
Boulder, CO 80301
USA
Orders by phone: +1 303 4446684
Fax: +1 303 4440824.
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THE TRAMPLED GRASS:
MITIGATING THE IMPACTS OF
ARMED CONFLICT ON THE
ENVIRONMENT
J. Shambaugh, J. Oglethorpe, and R. Ham (with contributions from S. Tognetti) (2001)
Armed conflicts create complex challenges for conservation in many areas of Sub- Saharan Africa. War devastates the lives of those in its destructive path, including civilians, local people, and, sometime, conservation workers.
This publication is based on the results of the Biodiversity Support Programme’s Armed Conflict and the Environment (ACE) Project, which reviewed negative impacts of armed conflict on the environment in Africa and analysed a wide range of practical experiences in reducing these impacts before, during, and after conflict. Recommendations in this guide aim to help natural resource managers, conservation practitioners, policy makers, and donors better prepare for conflicts before they occur, cope with them while they are occurring, and recover from them after they are over.
The publication can be downloaded from
the BSP’s website:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/bsp/publications/africa/139/titlepage.htm
For more information contact:
Biodiversity Support Programme
1250 24th Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
USA
Phone: +1 202 2934800
GLOBAL WITNESS REPORTS ON LINKS BETWEEN NATURAL RESOURCE EXPLOITATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Global Witness is a non-governmental organisation committed to exposing the link between natural resource exploitation and human right abuses, operating in areas where environmentally destructive trade is fuelling conflict and abuse. Global Witness gathers and disseminates information regarding environmental exploitation and its social, ecological and economic effects, in order that the link is understood by those who are in a position to effect positive change. Global Witness has used, and continues to use, covert and conventional investigative techniques to identify and document the mechanisms through which natural resources are exploited and removed from countries such as Angola, Cambodia, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo. These reports are presented to the world’s policy makers: thus governments and regulatory bodies are pressured to push for a more sustainable use of resources and a more equitable distribution of revenues.
Recent reports
Information taken from Global Witness website. All reports can be downloaded directly at Global Witness Website: http://www.globalwitness.org
A CONFLICT OF INTEREST: THE
UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF BURMA’S FORESTS
Global Witness (October 2003)
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the long lasting conflict in Burma and its strong links with natural resource wealth, particularly timber. First pages of the report present a set of recommendations for mitigating the conflict and improving Burma’s forest management. Specific recommendations are made to all parties involved in the conflict: internal combatants (regime leaders, ethnic insurgents), neighboring countries and international community. The report is divided into two sections; the first section carefully examines the origin of Burma’s conflict, tracking its political and cultural roots, as well as the traditionally inequitable distribution of resources extraction and deriving benefits. The second part is mainly based on Global Witness’ field research and provides a detailed and carefully documented view of logging and timber trade throughout Burma. Special attention is paid to logging in the border areas –Thai-Burma and China- Burma-, which are currently the areas of greatest concern.
All Global Witness reports and press releases can be downloaded directly at Global Witness Website: http://www.globalwitness.org .
Global Witness.
P.O. Box 6042
London N19 5WP
United Kingdom
Phone: + 44 207 2726731
Fax: +44 207 2729425.
For further information please contact:
Jon Buckrell
E-mail: jbuckrell@globalwitness.org
Alternatively please contact Simon Phillips
in Thailand.
E-mail: sbpcm@loxinfo.co.th
CONTROLLING IMPORTS OF
ILLEGAL TIMBER – OPTIONS FOR
EUROPE (SUMMARY)
D. Brack, C. Marijnissen and S. Ozinga
(2002)
This briefing presents a series of recommendations for the institutions of the European Union (EU), and for the governments of the EU member states, on means to control the import of illegally sourced timber and wood products into the territory of the EU. It is a summary of a larger report, jointly prepared by FERN and the Sustainable Development Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
The full report identifies existing legislation that may be applicable in controlling imports, looks at ways of promoting legal products in the market and of controlling flows of investment to potentially illegal forestry activities. It examines existing global frameworks that may be applicable. New approaches are analysed, in particular the option of a new EU legislation, including a licensing scheme for legal timber, enabling member states to control the entry of illegally sourced timber into the EU. Practical issues, including identification systems that should be addressed are discussed as well.
FERN/Royal Institute of International Affairs
Full report available on: http://www.fern.org
Can be downloaded directly from: http://www.fern.org/pubs/reports/options2.pdf
Or contact:
Lucia Appleby
Communications and publications
FERN
1c Fosseway Business Centre
Stratford Road, Moreton-in-Marsh
Gloucestershire GL56 9NQ
UK
Phone: + 44 1608 652895
Fax: + 44 1608 652878
E-mail: lucia@fern.org
CONFLICT TIMBER: DIMENSIONS OF
THE PROBLEM IN ASIA AND AFRICA
J. Thomson and R. Kanaan (2004)
As a response to the growing recognition of the connection between forests, logging and conflict, this report provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, ecological, political, social and security dimensions of conflict timber in both Asia and Africa.
The study identified four interrelated characteristics common to conflict timber incidents in Asia and Africa:
The results of the study indicate that solutions are required that address the major underlying cause of conflict timber – poor governance. Furthermore, there is no “silver bullet” capable of successfully addressing all incidents of conflict timber. To decrease the incidence, longevity or severity of conflict timber incidents successfully, well-reasoned and crosscutting programmatic responses need to be developed on a case-by-case basis.
The study was commissioned by USAID/ DCHA/OTI and USAID/ANE/TS to ARD Inc.
Copies of the report are available at the site:
http://www.ard-biofor.com/documents/Volume%201%20-%20Synthesis%20Report.pdf
Or try: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC17484
(Information above is compiled from the
summary of the report)
THE NETHERLANDS AND THE WORLD ECOLOGY – SOY AND OIL PALM
This map tries to assess and visualize the effects of the Dutch import of soybean and oil palm products. These products are mainly imported to feed the sizeable livestock population in the Netherlands. The high levels of consumption and trade of soybean and oil palm products has ultimate severe ecological and social consequences in the countries of production. The main consequences of these imports on local ecosystems are briefly outlined in the website mentioned below. The focus is on Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia in particular.
This and other maps produced as part of the programme “The Netherlands and the World Ecology” can be ordered from:
The Netherlands Committee for IUCN
Plantage Middenlaan 2K
1018 DD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 6261732
Fax: +31 20 6279349
E-mail: mail@nciucn.nl
Website: http://www.nciucn.nl
E-mail: anneke.meijer@nciucn.nl
The price of the map is: in The Netherlands €2 (including postage costs), abroad €3 (including postage costs).
RECURSOS, CIENCIA Y DECISIÓN
(RESOURCES, SCIENCE AND
DECISION)
Departamento de Recursos Naturales y
Medio Ambiente (DRNA), CATIE
This new Spanish language series emphasises the importance of a better scientific knowledge as the basis for technical decision making regarding management and conservation of natural resources in tropical America.Target groups are technicians and policy makers.
ISSN 1659-1224 - No. 1 “Retribuciones a la conservación” (Paybacks to conservation), August 2004.
For more information, contact:
Lorena Orozco
Editor
Departmento de Recursos Naturales y
Ambiente, CATIE
Apartado Postal 7170,
Turrialba
Costa Rica
Phone: + 506 558 2300 / 556 2703
Fax: +506 556 7730
E-mail: lorozco@catie.ac.cr
Website: http://www.catie.ac.cr
L’ÉCONOMIE MONDIALE FACE AU
CLIMAT - À RESPONSABILITÉS
ACCRUES, OPPORTUNITÉS
NOUVELLES (THE WORLD
ECONOMY FACING THE CLIMATE -
INCREASED RESPONSIBILITIES,
NEW OPPORTUNITIES)
André Gabus (L’Harmattan, 2003)
An Introduction to the Kyoto Protocol in French that has been especially written for the newcomers into this complex and farreaching policy instrument.
Après une brève mais équilibrée présentation de l’amplification de l’effet de serre comme phénomène physique, le livre d’André Gabus expose — ce qui est rare pour un lectorat francophone — les fondements sociétaux et économiques de la politique “climat”. Les voies et moyens de l’atténuation de l’effet de serre sont traités à la fois comme contraintes économiques et possibilités d’affaires pour les entreprises. Une prospective institutionnelle, économique et surtout technologique fait l’objet de scénarios attrayants. Le livre en cache un autre pour les forestiers entendant conduire la croissance ligneuse aussi pour participer à la prévention climatique, non seulement en tant que promoteurs de puits, mais aussi gestionnaires de stocks de carbone. L’ouvrage est bien organisé avec de nombreux encadrés, des notes techniques et des documents en annexe, un glossaire et un index utile, par exemple, pour recenser les efforts entrepris par pays ou se renseigner sur les innovations par domaines technologiques. En tant que livre de référence, le lecteur non-anglophone appréciera de pouvoir accéder aux sources majeures qui sont publiées pour la plupart en Anglais. [de la Note de l’Editeur]
ISBN: 2-7475-5050-8
Details by chapter can be viewed at:
http://www.effet-de-serre.gouv.fr/fr/etudes/somleco.html
For further information contact:
André GABUS,
International Consultant, Former Ministerial
Advisor
E-mail: agabus@bluewin.ch
Source: Climate Change Info Mailing List (Climate-L News)
FUNDRAISING AND FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT – A guide for NGOs
and Southern development
organisations (MANUEL DE
RECHERCHE DE FINANCEMENT ET
DE GESTION FINANCIERE des ONGs
et organisations de developpement
du sud)
F. Vincent (2003)
This book is the result of many years of practical experience in training and supporting dozens of Southern NGOs from all continents. The manual takes up certain recommendations of the book “Reinforcing financial autonomy of Third-World development NGOs and organisations”, of which the latest edition has been sold out. This manual is more than an update: it is adapted to needs and financing means of NGOs today and facilitates use of the Internet to identify financial partners.
This new manual translated and adapted from French into English is a practical tool for fundraising and financial management (232 pages). It addresses questions of NGO leaders: How do I draft my request for fundraising? To whom do I send it to have some chance of getting a reply? How much, what and how to ask? What kind of relationship should I have with my donor agencies? How do I manage and justify the aid received?
An annex of 50 pages gives the names and addresses of donor agencies: NGO donors; Foundations; multilateral (UN) aid; bilateral aid; development and alternative banks; and guarantee systems.
The manual is also published and and available in French.
IRED, Geneva
ISBN 2-88368-005-2
Price €30 and postage.
Please order by fax or e-mail.
Contact:
IRED Geneva
3, rue Varembé
116 Geneva 1211 20
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 7341716
Fax: + 41 22 7400011
E-mail: info@ired.org
Website: http://www.ired.org
AGROFORESTRY AND
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN
TROPICAL LANDSCAPES
G. Schroth, G.A.B. Da Fonseca, C.A. Harvey,
C. Gascon, H.L. Vasconcelos and A-M.N.
Izac (eds.) (2004)
The book is the first comprehensive synthesis of the role of agroforestry systems in conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes, and contains in-depth review chapters of most agroforestry systems, with examples from many different countries. It is a valuable source of information for scientists, researchers, professors, and students in the fields of conservation biology, resource management, tropical ecology, rural development, agroforestry, and agroecology.
Based on the experience in tropical regions of 46 scientists and practitioners from 13 countries, the book reviews how agroforestry practices can help to promote biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes, to synthesize the current state of knowledge in the field, and to identify areas where further research is needed.
Paper $45.00
ISBN 1-55963-357-3, Island Press.
For more information contact:
Evan Johnson
Island Press
1718 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20009-1148
USA
Phone: + 1 202 2327933
Fax: +1 202 2341328
E-mail: ejohnson@islandpress.org
http://www.islandpress.org
PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT,
MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF
BIODIVERSITY (PAMEB)
J. van Rijsoort and A. Lawrence (eds.) (2004)
The results of PAMEB Electronic workshop (7-25 January 2002) and policy seminar (21 May 2002) convened by the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford have been published on CD-ROM. The CD includes outputs, background documents and reading materials. All the information on the CD-ROM may also be downloaded from the workshop website. For copies of the CD, please contact ETFRN at etfrn@etfrn.org
DFID/FRP R7475. ETFRN and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTAL
RESEARCH ON GENETIC
PROCESSES IN TROPICAL AND
TEMPERATE FORESTS
B. Degen, M.D. Loveless and A. Kremer
(eds) (2002)
This publication presents the proceedings of a symposium with the same title held in Kourou, French Guiana in 2000. The symposium was supported by the Dendrogene project; the proceedings were published by EMBRAPA.
The Dendrogene project, hosted at the Embrapa Eastern Amazon research station in Belém, has created an important scientific network in the fields of ecology, genetics, botany and modeling in order to secure the use and conservation of the tropical humid forests. ISBN 85-87690-14-0
Copies can be requested at:
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental
Trav. Dr. Enéas Pinheiro s/n
Caixa Postal, 48, CEP: 66095-100
Belém, PA
Brazil
Tel: +55 91 2994500
Fax: +55 91 2769845
E-mail: sac@cpatu.embrapa.br
TAKAMANDA: THE BIODIVERSITY
OF AN AFRICAN RAINFOREST
J.A. Comiskey, T.C.H. Sunderland and J.L.
Sunderland-Groves (eds.) (2003)
The Takamanda Project was a collaborative, multi-institutional effort to provide an initial series of assessments for selected taxa in this region of southwestern Cameroon and elicit the data needed to form a baseline for future research and conservation. Takamanda Forest Reserve (TFR) was relatively unexplored until this project. Increasing threats to the long-term survival of both flora and fauna in the Reserve prompted the authors and their respective affiliation to conduct the biodiversity assessments that are reported on in the book. The studies reflect the overall biological importance of TFR, the urgent need to protect the area to ensure its viability into the future, and, ideally, implementation of sustainable management practices.
ISBN: 1-893912-12-4
SI/MAB Series #8. Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, DC.
You can download electonic versions of the
book at:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MAB/researchprojects/appliedconservation/westafrica/Takamanda.cfm
Or visit: http://www.si.edu/simab and click
on SI/MAB Series: Takamanda (on the right
side of the screen).
For more information contact:
Smithsonian Institution
National Zoological Park
Conservation and Research Center
SI/MAB Biodiversity Program
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Suite 3123
Washington, DC 20560-0705
USA
IDENTIFYING TROPICAL PROSOPISSPECIES. A FIELD GUIDE
N.M. Pasiecznik, P.J.C. Harris and S.J. Smith
(2004)
Taxonomists can tell the difference by looking very carefully at the flowers and leaves, and recently scientists have accurately identified species by analysing the DNA. However, while these methods are helpful to the experts in their laboratories, they are not much use to the forester, who needs to be able to identify Prosopis trees quickly in the field. This guide aims to do just that, by allowing a comparison of leaves and other useful morphological characteristics of the eight most frequent tropical species, and a key to differentiating the two most common, and most often confused species, P. juliflora and P. pallida.
ISBN 0-905343-34-4, HDRA, Coventry, UK
To request publications contact:
N.M. Pasiecznik
International Research department
HDRA
Ryton Organic Gardens
Coventry
Warwickshire CV8 3LG
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 24 76303517
Fax: +44 24 76639229
E-mail: enquiry@hdra.org.uk
Website: http://www.hdra.org.uk
P.J.C. Harris
School of Science and the Environment
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 24 76888349
Fax: +44 24 76888702
E-mail: p.harris@coventry.ac.uk
Website: http://www.coventry.ac.uk
ACACIA: A PRICKLY TREE FOR A
THORNY PROBLEM
Summary written by Becky Hayward (2003)
The research on African acacias was carried out by a collaboration of organisations including the Zimbabwe Forestry Commission, the Kenya Forestry Institute and L’Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles. The project was focussed on six species: Acacia erioloba, Acacia karroo, Acacia nilotica, Acacia Senegal, Acacia tortilis and Faidherbia albida.
Biologists at the Oxford Forestry Institute, the University of Dundee and the Zimbabwe Commission looked at how fast growing and productive seedlings of these Acacia species can be raised in tree nurseries using local adapted methods. Ecologists at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology identified how acacia fallows can improve soil fertility and botanists at the Oxford Forestry Institute investigated the potential of acacia pods as dry season fodder for cattle and goats. A team of sociologists at the Oxford Forestry Institute and the Zimbabwe Forestry Commission looked at the fourth aspect of the research: the potential of acacia’s to generate cash income.
Forestry Research Programme, Research Summary 005. September 2003
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Research Programme contact:
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FIRST PROTA INTERNATIONAL
WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
G.H. Schmelzer and E.A. Omino (eds.)
(2003)
These Proceedings contain the presentations and deliberations of the First PROTA International Workshop, which was held from 23-25 September 2002, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is published by PROTA Foundation, Wageningen, the Netherlands. The Workshop was organized as a forum for scientists, policy-makers and donors, in order:
ISBN 90-77114-04-1
For more information on Plant Resources
of Tropical Africa (PROTA) visit:
http://www.prota.org
ENHSIN – THE EUROPEAN NATURAL
HISTORY SPECIMEN INFORMATION
NETWORK
M.J Scoble (ed.) (2003). The Natural History
Museum
This volume has arisen from a multinational research co-operation aimed at improving access to a particular set of world-class research infrastructure. The network engaged in this collaboration is the European Natural History Specimen Information Network (ENHSIN), which has been supported by the European Union under Framework Programme V.
For more information about ENHSIN
contact:
Malcolm J Scoble
Network Co-ordinator
Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
UK
Phone: +44 20 79425469
Fax: +44 20 79425229
E-mail: m.scoble@nhm.ac.uk
PRACTICAL GUIDELINES FOR THE
ASSESSMENT, MONITORING AND
REPORTING ON NATIONAL LEVEL
CRITERIA AND INDICATORS FOR
SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
IN DRY FORESTS IN ASIA
S. Appanah, F. Castañeda and P.B. Durst
(eds.) (2003)
Criteria and indicators provide a meaningful and practical means for countries to gauge periodic progress towards sustainable forest management. While these tools cannot be viewed as a panacea for the world’s forest management problems, they can be important tools for promoting sustainable forest management and related activities where the underlying problems are correctly identified and addressed.
However, to be relevant and useful, and to implement these tools in an efficient way, criteria and indicators must be translated into action. This requires the development of practical guidelines for the assessment and monitoring of criteria and indicators, and for reporting on progress.
This publication supports that need. It describes in a simple, straightforward manner: (a) the means for assessing and verifying each indicator, (b) periodicity of measurement and units of measurement and (c) the formats used in reporting the results and monitoring the changes. The assessment methodology is specially tailored for evaluating dry forests in all the countries in the Asian region but could be applicable to similar regions in the world as well. Overall, they can be used for accurately assessing the progress made by countries towards sustainable management of their dry forests. Now the task falls on the individual countries to develop the local standards of performance and begin the actual monitoring of their management. It is expected that the practical guidelines set forth in this publication will support and simplify these monitoring efforts.
ISBN 974-7946-40-8
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
For copies of the report, write to:
Patrick B. Durst
Senior Forestry Officer
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
39 Phra Atit Road
Bangkok 10200
Thailand
Phone +66 2 6974000
Fax: +66 2 6974445
E-mail: Patrick.Durst@fao.org
CHINA’S FORESTS – GLOBAL
LESSONS FROM MARKET
REFORMS
W.F. Hyde, B. Belcher and Jintao Xu (eds)
(2003)
This book is the main output from the symposium entitled “Policy Reform and Forestry in China: lessons in China and the world” held in June 2001 in Dujiangyan. The symposium arose from the need for a more comprehensive understanding of the forestry impacts of the sweeping reforms that China has implemented over the past quarter century.
The symposium was organised around a series of themes: history and the grand themes of the reform; decentralization, prices, taxation and regulation; investments in forestry; extrasectoral policy impacts on forestry; impacts on poverty and rural households; environmental impacts. The general discussion went beyond the boundaries of “forestry” to consider a wide set of factors that interact in a very dynamic environment to influence resource management and development. The Chinese language version of the book is still in progress.
Resources for the future (RFF), CIFOR
ISBN 1-891853-67-8 (cloth)
ISBN 1-891853-66-X (paper)
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Washington, DC 20036-1400
USA
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