Recent Publications

• A Rough Guide to Developing Laws for Regional Forest Management
  Authors: Jason M.Patlis
  Date: June 2004
  e-file: (size 956 kB) 

• Who Pays for and Who Benefits from Improved Timber Harvesting Practices in the Tropics? Lessons Learned and Information Gaps
  Authors: Grahame Applegate, Francis E. Putz and Laura K. Snook
  Date: June 2004
  e-file: (size 706 kB)

• China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Forests and Livelihoods.
  Meeting China's Demand for Forest Products: An Overview Of Import Trends, Ports of Entry, and Supplying Countries, with Emphasis on the Asia-Pacific Region
  Authors: Xiufang Sun, Eugenia Katsigris, Andy White
  Date: May 2004
  e-file: English (size 356KB)

• China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Forests and Livelihoods.
  China's Forest Product Import Trends 1997-2002: Analysis of Customs Data with Emphasis on Asia-Pacific Supplying Countries
  Authors: Xiufang Sun, Nian Cheng Andy White, R. Anders West, Eugenia Katsigris
  Date: May 2004
  e-file: English (size 698KB)

• Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forests
  Proceedings of Workshops in Congo July 2001 and China February 2003
  Editors: E.K.S. Nambiar, J. Ranger, A. Tiarks, and T. Toma
  Date: May 2004
  Click here to see table of contents and also download each paper (40-700 KB)
  or Click here to download full version of the book (in zip format size 5.4 MB)

• Retos y perspectivas del nuevo régimen forestal en el norte amazónico boliviano
  Editor: Wil de Jong
  Date: May 2004
  e-file: (size 1.2 MB)

• The Amphibians and Reptiles of Malinau Region, Bulungan Research Forest, East Kalimantan
  Author: Djoko T. Iskandar
  Date: April 2004
  e-file: (size 1 MB)

• Riches of the forest: For health life and spirit in Africa
  Editors: Citlalli López and Patricia Shanley
  Date: April 2004
  e-files: TOC-Page 12 (2.4 MB); Page 13 - Page 60 (2.7MB); Page 61 - Page 116 (2.3 MB);

• Forest Products, Livelihoods and Conservation (Volume 1 - Asia)
  Editors: Koen Kusters and Brian Belcher
  e-files: TOC-Chapter5.pdf (2.7 MB); Chapter6-Chapter11.pdf (2.5 MB); Chapter12-Chapter16.pdf (2.6 MB); Chapter17-Chapter22.pdf (2.7 MB)

• Forest Products, Livelihoods and Conservation (Volume 2 - Africa)
  Editors: Terry Sunderland and Ousseynou Ndoye
  e-files: TOC-Chapter6.pdf (2.5 MB); Chapter7-Chapter13.pdf (2.8 MB); Chapter14-Chapter18.pdf (3.6 MB)

• Productos Forestales, Medios de Subsistencia y Conservación (Volume 3 - Latin America)
  Editors: Miguel N. Alexiades y Patricia Shanley
  e-files: TOC-Chapter5.pdf (2.6 MB); Chapter6-Chapter10.pdf (3.1MB); Chapter11-Chapter16.pdf (3 MB); Chapter17-Chapter20.pdf (2.6 MB); Chapter21-Chapter24.pdf (2 MB)

• Decentralisation of Administration, Policy Making and Forest Management in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan (Case Study 8)
  Authors: Endriatmo Soetarto,MT Felix Sitorus and Yusup Napiri
  e-file: (size 855 KB)

• The Effects of Decentralization on Forests and Forest Industries in Berau District, East Kalimantan (Case Study 9)
  Authors: Krystof Obidzinski and Christopher Barr
  date: December 2003
  e-file: (size 736KB)

• Mengeksplorasi keanekaragaman hayati, lingkungan dan pandangan masyarakat lokal mengenai berbagai lanskap hutan
  Authors: Douglas Sheil, Rajindra K Puri, Imam Basuki, Miriam van Heist, Meilinda Wan, Nining Liswanti, Rukmiyati, Mustofa Agung Sardjono, Ismayadi Samsoedin, Kade Sidayasa, Chrisandini, Edi Permana, Eddy Mangopo Angi, Frans Gatzweiler, Brook Johnson, Akhmad Wijaya
  date: February 2004
  e-files: Bhs. Indonesia (size 2.2 MB)

• Riches of the forest: Food, spices, crafts and resins of Asia
  Editor: Citlalli López and Patricia Shanley
  date: January 2004
  e-files: English (size 4 MB)

• When the Dutch Disease met the French Connection: Oil, Macroeconomics and Forests in Gabon
  Author: Sven Wunder
  date: January 2004
  e-files: English (size 2.6 MB); French (size 3.6 MB)

• Policies and Governance Structures in Woodlands of Southern Africa
  Editors: Godwin Kowero, Bruce M. Campbell and Ussif Rashid Sumaila
  date: January 2004
  e-files:   TOC - Chapter 12 (size 2.2 MB); Chapter 13 - Chapter 22 (size 2MB)

• Sistem Informasi Geografis Untuk pengelolaan sumberdaya alam
  Authors: Atie Puntodewo, Sonya Dewi, Jusupta Tarigan
  date: January 2004
  e-files Bhs. Indonesia:   Bab 1 (1.2 MB); Bab 2 (2.2 MB); Bab 3 (2.6 MB); Bab 4 (2.6 MB); and Bab 5 (2.7 MB).
  Download CD-ROM lampiran dari buku ”Sistem Informasi Geografis".

• Municipal forest management in Latin America
  Edited by Lyes Ferroukhi
  e-file: (size 1.5 MB)

• CIFOR Research Abstracts
  date: October 2003
  e-file: (size 400 KB)