Author: Edi Guhardja
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431679111
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Since the late 1960s the Indonesian state of East Kalimantan has witnessed a marked increase in the impact of human activities chiefly commercial logging and agricultural exploitation. Located on the island of Borneo, East Kalimantan also was subjected to prolonged droughts and extensive wildfires in 1982-83 and 1997-98 that were linked to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. The changes in the rainforest ecosystem in East Kalimantan during this 15-year cycle of severe ENSO events are the subject of this book. With an eye toward development of rehabilitation techniques for sustainable forest management, the authors examine possible interactive effects of drought, fire, and human impacts on the flora and fauna of the area.
Author: Kathy MacKinnon
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462905056
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 783
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The Ecology of Kalimantan is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's largest and most diverse islands. This book presents a complete summary of our current scientific knowledge about Borneo including the rainforest and riverine habitats that are endangered by logging and industrial development, along with a discussion of land use patterns and current problems. Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the huge island of Borneo. Kalimantan has played a key role in Indonesia’s economic development and is a major earner of foreign revenue due to the island's rich natural resources: forests, oil, gas, coal, and other minerals. In this book the authors argue that Kalimantan can be developed, but within tight ecological constraints and with great care. This book remains a standard reference for scientists, anthropologists, writers, and anyone interested in the region.
Author: Shigeo Kobayashi
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9798764706
Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems project. Evaluation of forest harvesting and fire impacts on the forest ecosystems.Development of methods to rehabilitate logged-over forests and degraded forest lands. Development of silvicultural techniques on degraded forest lands. Network of the rehabilitation of degraded forest ecosystems.
Author: Philip Hurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Author: Tim H Clutton-brock
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 1783261625
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Views on the dynamics of tropical forests are changing rapidly with the recognition that their environment is variable on the decadal to century scale. Fluctuating climatic conditions partly determine tropical forest structure, species composition and dynamics. Tropical communities are also highly contingent in space and time with respect to site and historical factors. Tropical forests have experienced to some degree this disturbance regime in the past, but climatologists are now predicting increasingly frequent extreme events in the new century. The combination of increasing deforestation and land-use conversion by man plus an increasingly variable environment means a situation that could be very difficult to manage.
Author: I Ketut Gunawan
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3865372805
Category : Democratization
Languages : de
Pages : 395
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Author: Andreas Schulte
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662036495
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems. The present book examines the contribution that forest soil science and forest ecology can make to sustainable land use in the humid tropics. Four main issues are addressed: characteristics and classification of forest soils, chemical and hydrological changes after forest utilization, soil fertility management in forest plantations and agroforestry systems as well as ecosystem studies from the dipterocarp forest region of Southeast Asia. Additionally, case studies include work from Guyana, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Nigeria.
Author: Ken-ichi Abe
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
ISBN: 9781876843540
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Following an interdisciplinary approach to debates about the future of tropical forests in Southeast Asia, the authors - experts in their field - unravel the extent to which the interests of local inhabitants, nation-states and international environmental movements are intertwined. This volume, a joint publication with Kyoto University Press, examines the highly politicized context in which local forestry problems intersect with global market forces, focusing on the social and economic diversity of different tropical forests and their specific historical background. It emphasizes the importance of examining local issues in their own right.
Author: W.D. Newmark
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662048728
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Tanzania is one of the most biologically diverse nations in the world. Traveling from west to east across Tanzania, one encounters an incredible array of ecosystems and species. Beginning at Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Nyasa that form much of the western boundary of Tanzania, one finds the most diverse and some of the most spectacular concentrations of endemic fish in any of the world's lakes. Moving further inland from the lakes, one meets the woodlands and plains of Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire, and Lake Manyara. The assemblages and movements of large mammals in these protected areas are unparalleled worldwide. Traveling yet further to the east, one comes to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro is of sufficient height to not only contain seven major vegetation zones, but also maintain permanent glaciers. Finally, shortly before arriving at the Indian Ocean, one encounters the Eastern Arc Mountains, a series of isolated and geologically ancient mountains, which due to their height and proximity to the Indian Ocean intercept sufficient precipitation to support, in many areas, moist tropical forest. The Eastern Arc Mountains are among the richest sites biologically in all of Africa and harbor unusually high concentrations of endemic species - species whose geographic distribution are restricted to these mountains. Unfortunately, much of Tanzania's biodiversity is threatened by habitat alteration, destruction, and exploitation. The Eastern Arc forests face some of the most severe threats to any of Tanzania's biologically unique sites.
Author:
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3736912803
Category : Science
Languages : de
Pages : 398
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This last chapter is divided into two main parts. The first part compares the key findings of the study cases of Matalibaq and Long Bagun Ulu (Chapter 5 and 6 respectively), with the focus on conflict development, political risks to act, conflict motives, indigenous resource mobilisation, and public goods achievement in the conflict. The second part will offer a conclusion of the entire work of this study as well as a classification of the underlying issues found in the rise of the forest conflict phenomenon. This study refrains from trying to offer pragmatic remedies due to the complexity of the problems. Rather, it focuses on a strategic key entry point to deal with forest conflicts that has not received much attention by researchers. I argue this key entry point can also be used as an underpinning for the consolidation of the newly born Indonesian democracy at the local level, which has been much neglected by the Indonesian government and politicians.
