Structure and Processes in Traditional Forest Gardens of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Author: Frank Brodbeck
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 3865370640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frank Brodbeck
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 3865370640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sitti Latifah
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 3865373399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hung Pham Quoc
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 3867278121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Teja Tscharntke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-04-26
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 3540302905
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic systems of tropical rain forest margins, as well as striving to integrate environmental, technological and socio-economic issues in their solution.
Author: Günter Burkard
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 3825814688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains a collection of articles based on empirical social science research in forest margin communities around the Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It refers to a worldwide and particularly topical issue, i.e. the declining forest resources and man's role in the observed processes of nature degradation. However, it refrains from rather simplistic protectionist approaches which boil down to a separation between man and nature in order to avoid the depletion of natural resources. Instead, the approach adopted regards the existence or development of co-evolutionary potentials, both in nature and human society, as a precondition for the establishment of a sustainable equilibrium in the interaction between man and nature.
Author: Daniel Stietenroth
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 3938616202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This international symposium featured three interconnected thematic foci of interdisciplinary research. They focussed on the changes in the extent and intensity of agricultural and forest land use in tropical forest margins and their implications for rural development and for conservation of natural resources such as biodiversity, soils and water. The symposium took place in Goettingen. Almost 130 international authors have contributed a short abstract and their adress.
Author: Ariane Cosiaux
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tropical ecosystems are exceptionally rich in biodiversity, containing most terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid and extensive forest degradation, which causes modifications of ecosystems and fragmentation of habitats, is leading to an alarming loss of biodiversity (Laurence 1999). Most of the 25 “biodiversity hotspots”, as defined by Myers et al. (2000), are in the tropics and characterized by high levels of endemism and habitat loss. Two of these are partly in Indonesia: the Sundaland (western Indonesia) and the Wallacea (eastern Indonesia). Environmental degradation in Indonesia has been severe during recent decades (Sodhi et al. 2004). From 1990 to 2005, Indonesia lost 21.32 million ha of forest (17.56% of its forest cover); however, the mean rate of deforestation in Indonesia for the period 1990–2000 (1.78 million ha/year) was three times that for 2000–2005 (0.58 million ha/year) (Hansen et al. 2009). Yet despite this decrease in deforestation, forest loss in Indonesia remains high, with more than 500,000 ha lost each year during 2005–2010 (FAO 2010). The main direct causes of these high rates of deforestation are: conversion of forest to agricultural lands, commercial logging, fire and mining (Sodhi et al. 2004).
Author: Geneviève Michon
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9793361654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yves Laumonier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9400900317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fifteen years ago, approximately half the world population was estimated to live in continental and insular South-East Asia (Burma, Thailand, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines). Then the region had a population growth of four million people every month, and the problem of malnutrition was acute for the rural population. International agricultural development organisations decided that their primary aim would be to double existing levels of agricultural production and, taking account of population growth, to double it again by the end of the century (Whyte 1976). Today, while global issues have greatly affected the parameters of the problem, the situation remains both serious and difficult. Despite impressive efforts in education and health, Indonesia for example, where population (179 millions) growth eased off only slightly between 1980 and 1990 (from 2. 3 percent to 1. 9 percent), is having to cope with increasing difficulties in managing natural resources and particularly its evanescent forest assets which, until 1986, were the second largest source of national revenue. Indonesia has the second largest surface area of tropical rain forests in the world (after Brazil) and thus all the problems linked with management and disappearance of those forests. The latest estimate gives a figure of 109 million hectares of forest in 1990, of which 40. 8 million hectares are production forests (Anon. -F AO 1990).
Author: B.M. Kumar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-04-21
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 140204948X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree–crop–animal production systems, often established on small parcels of land surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading researchers and professionals in this topic. It summarizes the current state of knowledge on homegarden systems, with a view to using this knowledge as a basis for improving both homegardens and other similar multistrata agroforestry systems.