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Evaluations for sustainable forest management: towards an adaptive standard for the evaluation of the ecological sustainability of forest management in Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2002)
The evaluation of the sustainability of forest management is an integral measure in the maintenance of production, and the ecological and socioeconomic functions of forest systems and should consider both the fulfillment ...
The hamburger connection hangover: cattle, pasture land degradation and alternative land use in Central America
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2000)
In the past few decades, pasture expansion into the humid lowlands of Central America has increased greatly and has raised a great deal of concern about deforestation and potential land degradation. However, little information ...
Ecology and management of tropical secondary forest: science, people, and policy. Proceedings
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). IUFRO, Viena (Austria) CIFOR, Bogor (Indonesia). WWF, Gland (Suiza) GTZ, Eschborn (Alemania), 1998)
Secondary forests developing on agricultural land after it is abandoned, or as the fallow period in systems of subsistence agriculture, are an increasingly important component of the forest resources of the tropics. They ...
The place of agro-forestry in managing tropical forests
(CATIE, 1980)