Past experience with the forest management system of Cambodia has shown that the open-access forest scheme has … contributed to the decline of timber and non-timber forest products collected from the forests. Authorities have responded by …. To assess if this scheme is worth supporting, an economic analysis of a CF managed forest is compared with alternative …

that an estimated 153 ha of forest should be established to offset the carbon emission due to the clearing of such hills …. This means that the carbon offset project will require the establishment of one hectare of forest for every two hills …

This study aims to assess the performance and the short-term impacts of the payment for forest environmental services …. The environmental impact is assessed by proxy variables such as time spent conducting forest protection and conservation …, amount of illegal logging, forest removed or burned, and farmers’ and local authorities’ awareness of environmental …

carbon loss in the ancestral domain due to possible deforestation in the old growth forest is a lot higher than expanding …

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 …

Forest cover in Sri Lanka has declined drastically during the last century. Some of the remaining forests, which are … under protection, harbor high levels of biodiversity and endemism. Illegal timber extraction is the most important cause of …. This study assesses that policy and four alternative policy measures: legislative approaches; establishment of forest …

This study assesses the performance of the forest pricing system currently in force in Peninsular Malaysia. It … trees. The study advises that such underpricing encourages the rapid depletion of forest resources, wasteful extraction …

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 … serious environmental problems such as deforestation, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and unsustainable livelihoods. In …

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 …