Carrying out surveys of attitudes to forestry and aspirations for forest management intraditional indigenous communities in remote areas can present many problems for researchers. For example, Venn (2004) found that in the Aurukun community of Cape York Peninsula, Australia, it was not possible to conduct a community survey due to negative attitudes of the indigenous community to outsiders, the existence of (non-indigenous) ‘gatekeepers’ who considered that they were protecting the rights of the indigenous community, and traditional distrust between the many tribes which had been forced to coexist in the community. Similarly, Safa (2005) found difficulty in interviewing upland farmers in Yemen, due to lack of communications, accommodation for enumerators and road access.
Publication year
2005
Authors
Sales R F; Banaticla M R N; Lasco R D
Language
English
Keywords
carbon, carbon sequestration, trees, ecosystems, gmelina arborea, swietenia macrophylla
Geographic
Philippines
