Poverty, consumption risk, and soil conservation
This paper applies a stochastic dynamic model to examine the influence of poverty and consumption risk on the incentives for low-income farms to invest in soil […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): G. Shively
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Price thresholds, price volatility, and the private costs of investment in a developing country grain market
This paper discusses price thresholds and volatility in an African maize market, based on analysis of data from Ghana using linear and threshold-ARCH models. There was […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): G. Shively
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
The double task of institutional strengthening and executing project activities simultaneously with local partners
Critical elements of integrated conservation and development (ICD) projects include protecting the environmental integrity of a geographic area over the long term, improving the economic security […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): J. Stallings; M. Garcia
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Common modeling environment (CME): A framework for integrated decision support systems
Abstract: Assessing impact of technologies and policies requires the use of a suite of decision support models that address the complexity of economic systems at the […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): J. Stuth; D. Schmitt; K. Zander; C. Heath; J Angerer; J. Vitale
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Global
- Topic: Innovation
Conservation and management of watershed and natural resources: Issues in the Philippines, the Bukidnon experience
There has been a continuing shift in the management of watershed and natural resources in the Philippines. Stakeholders such as local communities, LGUs, indigenous people, and […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): A. Sumbalan
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The Bukidnon experience in natural resource management decentralization
Abstract: The Province of Bukidnon in north-central Mindanao is the largest of Region X and the eight largest in the country sits on the 829,378 hectares […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): A. Sumbalan
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Closing the gap between natural resource management research and policy-making: Reflections from the Manupali watershed and beyond
Abstract: The search for practical solutions in arresting environmental degradation in the developing countries has been the impetus behind catalyzed the creation of development of mechanisms […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): A. Sumbalan; G. Buenavista
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Economic crisis, small farmer well being, and forest cover change in Indonesia
Abstract: Field research was conducted on 1,050 Indonesian households to understand the effects of the Asian economic crisis on the well-being of small farmers outside of […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): W. Sunderlin; A. Angelsen; D. Resosudarmo; A. Dermawan; E. Rianto
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Ethnopedology in central Mali
Abstract: Research was done on local classifications of soils and conceptions of soil fertility management in Madiama, the SANREM-Mali site. While the local typology reveals a […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): T. Crane
- Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Environmental assessments as community-based adaptive management tools
This paper discusses the historic role of environmental assessments and impact statements in development and conservation projects and their limited current use. The Sustainable Uses for […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): J. Tolisano
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management