Douglas Sheil

Rajindra K. Puri

Nining Liswanti

Kade Sidiyasa

Imam Basuki

Miriam van Heist

Meilinda Wan

Rukmiyati

Mustofa Agung Sardjono

Ismayadi Samsoedin

Chrisandini

Edi Permana

Eddy Mangopo Angi

Franz Gatzweiler

Brook Johnson

Akhmad Wijaya

Operational overview. Villages and communities. Field sample selection. Village-based activities. First community meeting. Community landscape mapping. Selecting local informants. Community-based data collections. Field-based activities. Site, vegetation and trees. Plants and site - ethnoecological data. Soil assessment. Data control and management. Plant taxonomy and verification. Database. Conclusiones.

Exploring Biological Diversity, Environment, and Local People's Perspectives in Forest Landscapes: Methods for a Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment

Peter Cronkleton

Robert Nasi

Manuel R. Guariguata

Carmen García-Fernández

Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui

Ousseynou Ndoye

Verina Ingram

Hacia un manejo múltiple en bosques tropicales : Consideraciones sobre la compatibilidad del manejo de madera y productos forestales no maderables

E. Meijaard

David Augeri

Barry Rosenbaum

Djoko Iskandar

Titiek Setyawati

Martjan Lammertink

Ike Rachmatika

Anna Wong

Tonny Soehartono

Scott Stanley

Timothy O’Brien

This book presents a technical review of ecological and life history information on a range of Bornean wildlife species, aimed at identifying what makes these species sensitive to timber harvesting practices and associated impacts. It addresses three audiences: 1) those involved in assessing and regulating timber harvesting activities in Southeast Asia, 2) those involved in trying to achieve conservation goals in the region, and 3) those undertaking research to improve multipurpose forest management. This book shows that forest management can be improved in many simple ways to allow timber extraction and wildlife conservation to be more compatible than under current practices. The recommendations can also be valuable to the many governmental and non-governmental organisations promoting sustainable forest management and eco-labelling. Finally, it identifies a number of shortcomings and gaps in knowledge, which the hope can interest the scientific community and promote further research. This review is, an important scientific step toward understanding and improving sustainable forestry practices for long-term biodiversity conservation. Even in the short term, however, significant improvements can be made to improve both conservation and the efficiency of forest management, and there is no need to delay action due to a perceived lack of information. In the longer term it is expected that the recommendations from this review will be implemented, and that further research will continue to help foster an acceptable balance among the choices needed to maintain healthy wildlife populations and biodiversity in a productive forest estate.

Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production Forestry in Indonesian Borneo

Life After Logging

Misa Kishi

Carol J. Pierce Colfer

This study has two central concerns: the state of human health in forests, and the causal links between forests and human health. Within this framework, we consider four issues related to tropical forests and human health. First, we discuss forest foods, emphasizing the forest as a food-producing habitat, human dependence on forest foods, the nutritional contributions of such foods, and nutrition-related problems that affect forest peoples. Our second topic is disease and other health problems. In addition to the major problems—HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and mercury poisoning—we address some 20 other tropical diseases and health problems related to forests. The third topic is medicinal products. We review the biophysical properties of medicinal species and consider related indigenous knowledge, human uses of medicinal forest products, the serious threats to forest sustainability, and the roles of traditional healers, with a discussion of the benefits of forest medicines and conflicts over their distribution. Our fourth and final topic is the cultural interpretations of human health found among forest peoples, including holistic world views that impinge on health and indigenous knowledge. The Occasional Paper concludes with some observations about the current state of our knowledge, its utility and shortcomings, and our suggestions for future research.

Assessing the Evidence

Forests and Human Health

Douglas Sheil

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