Recent decades have seen a rapid movement towards decentralising forest rights and tenure to local communities and indigenous groups in both developing and developed nations. Attribution of local and community rights to forests appears to be gathering increasing momentum in many tropical developing countries.
Forest lands in Indonesia are classified as state lands and subject to management under agreements allocated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. There has been a long-standing tension between the ministry and local communities who argue that they have traditionally managed large areas of forest and should be allowed to continue to do so.
โครงการเสริมสร้างความเข้มแข็งเครือข่ายท้องถิ่นและหน่วยงานท้องถิ่นเพื่อการจัดการลุ่มน้ำอิงอย่างยั่งยืน เป็นโครงการร่วมระหว่างศูนย์วนศาสตร์ชุมชนเพื่อคนกับป่า กับสถาบันความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพและสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการพัฒนาท้องถิ่นและอาเซียน มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฎเชียงรายร่วมกับภาคีท้องถิ่นที่สำคัญทั้งสภาประชาชนลุ่มน้ำอิง กลุ่มรักษ์เชียงของ พะเยาทีวีชุมชน สถาบันปวงพญาพยาว มหาวิทยาลัยพะเยา ภายใต้การสนับสนุนจาก
This paper describes the development of a Land Information Management System (LIMS) for County Governments in Kenya. In the new Constitution 2010, devolution of some national government functions and formation of county governments was provided for. These invoked the development of new land laws to guide the devolution processes and procedures.
As Unidades de Conservação cobrem 22% da Amazônia Legal e são uma estratégia eficaz para conservar animais, plantas e serviços ambientais, conter o desmatamento e manter o equilíbrio climático do Planeta.
The purpose of this Act, consisting of 102 sections divided into 11 Parts and completed by one Schedule, is to repeal and re-enact with amendments the Climate Change Act 2010: a) to set a long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction target; b) to provide for the setting of 5-yearly interim greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in order to reach the long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduct
We are probably at the most crucial crossroad of humanity’s history. We are changing the earth’s climate as a result of accelerated human-made Greenhouse Gases Emissions (GHG) and biodiversity loss, provoking other effects that increase the complexity of the problem and will multiply the speed with which we approach climate chaos, and social too.
These Regulations reform the law in Ghana with respect to the granting of timber rights and related matters.
In collaboration with the University of Riau, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has established permanent plots in Tanjung Leban village, Bengkalis regency, Riau province. The site, which is owned by the local community, is about 50 km east of the city of Dumai and easily accessed by car.
Vietnam has pilot-tested a payment for forest environmental services (PFES) program in an effort to restore and protect forest areas, some of which have been severely degraded by the excessive cutting of trees by small-scale farmers planting annual crops on steep, sloping lands.
