Kamrul Islam, Md. Farhadur Rahman, Mohammed Jashimuddin
Patricia Howard
* Foreword * 1. Women and the Plant World: An Exploration - Patricia L. Howard * Part 1: Culture, Kitchen and Conservation * 2. Women in the Garden and Kitchen: The Role of Cuisine in the Conservation of Traditional House Lot Crops among Yucatec Mayan Immigrants - Laurie S. Z. Greenberg * 3. Wild Fo...
Duan Biggs, Rosie Cooney, Dilys Roe, Holly Dublin et al.
The escalating illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most high-profile conservation challenges today. The crisis has attracted over US$350 million in donor and government funding in recent years, primarily directed at increased enforcement. There is growing recognition among practitioners and p...
Bruno Locatelli, Carla P. Catterall, Pablo Imbach, Chetan Kumar et al.
Tropical reforestation (TR) has been highlighted as an important intervention for climate change mitigation because of its carbon storage potential. TR can also play other frequently overlooked, but significant, roles in helping society and ecosystems adapt to climate variability and change. For exa...
Penny F. Langhammer, Joseph W. Bull, Jake E. Bicknell, Joseph Oakley et al.
Governments recently adopted new global targets to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity. It is therefore crucial to understand the outcomes of conservation actions. We conducted a global meta-analysis of 186 studies (including 665 trials) that measured biodiversity over time and compared outcom...
Md. Shams Uddin, Erik De Ruyter van Steveninck, Mishka Stuip, Mohammad Aminur Rahman Shah
Hanne Svarstad, Ragnhild Overå, Tor A. Benjaminsen
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle...
Md Sarwar Hossain, John A. Dearing, Md. Munsur Rahman, Mashfiqus Salehin
This study takes an historical approach in order to establish how the form and function of the social-ecological system that represents the Bangladesh south-western coastal zone has changed over recent decades. Time series data for a range of ecosystem services and drivers are analysed to define the...
G. Rasul, Gopal B. Thapa
Abstract Shifting cultivation, which long provided the subsistence requirements of a large number of people in the mountains of South and Southeast Asia under a situation of low population, has been shown to be an environmentally and economically unsuitable practice. Efforts have been made throughou...
Richard T. Corlett
Abstract Tropical East Asia is home to over 1 billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its forest cover and has the highest rates of deforestation and logging in the tropics. Hunting and the trade in wi...
Shiba Kar, Michael Jacobson
Aaron M. Ellison, Barid B. Mukherjee, Ansarul Karim
Summary 1 Associations between abiotic variables and patterns of species distribution and abundance are a major preoccupation of community ecologists. In many habitats, this association is manifest in discrete zones of vegetation. 2 We used statistical methods to examine tree species distribution pa...
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan Hanson et al.
This book shares the experience of developing a systematic approach for a large multi-disciplinary project on ecosystem services in coastal Bangladesh
Sharif A. Mukul, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Niaz Ahmed Khan
People in the developing world derive a significant part of their livelihoods from various forest products, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This article attempts to explore the contribution of NTFPs in sustaining forest-based rural livelihood in and around a protected area (PA) of B...
Krishna Hari Gautam, Nora Devoe
Sal ( Shorea robusta Gaertn. f.) forests cover over 11 million ha in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and these forests are conventionally managed for timber. Recently, interest in producing multiple products from sal forests has increased; accordingly, a silvicultural regime for managing sal forest for...