Palm oil and likely futures: Assessing the potential impacts of zero deforestation commitments and a moratorium on large-scale oil palm plantations in Indonesia
This brief examines two contrasting policy options: the implementation of zero deforestation commitments by the private sector and a complete moratorium on the expansion of large-scale oil palm plantations, and compares them to a situation without policy action. The zero deforestation commitments and the moratorium on large-scale oil palm plantations…
Combining multicriteria decision making and geographic information system for assessing forest sustainability
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Governing the teak furniture business: a global value chain system dynamic modelling approach
Javanese teak forest constitutes more than 35% of world teak forests. It provides employment and livelihood to millions of people. This paper describes the use of systems dynamics to mimic the value chain of teak from forest to final furniture market using phases of conceptual design, model specification, model evaluation…
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Developing multi-stakeholder forest management scenarios: a multi-agent system simulation approach applied in Indonesia
Participatory approaches to development in general and natural resource management in particular are now a widely accepted management strategy. Multi-agent system (MAS), a computer-based tool, offers a promising approach for multi-stakeholder management systems such as the case involving community-managed resources. MAS provides a framework where stakeholders’ (or agents) individual actions,…
Development of multistakeholder scenarios of secondary forest management: a multiagent system simulation approach
The state owned company, PT. Inhutani II Sub Unit Malinau, has managed the lowland dipterocarps forest in Malinau District, East Kalimantan for over 10 years. They established permanent sample plots (PSP) for measuring the growth and the yield in their area. However, current regulations do not give the company a…
Bioeconomic modelling of alternative forms of hedgerow intercropping in the Philipines uplands using SCUAF
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Initiating a dynamic process for monitoring in Mafungautsi state forest, Zimbabwe
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Scenario-based actions to upgrade small-scale furniture producers and their impacts on women in Central Java, Indonesia
Indonesian furniture accounts for almost 1% of the global furniture trade, valued at more than USD 135 billion. In many countries, including Japan, European countries and Indonesia, women make decisions about selecting which furniture to buy. In Central Java’s Jepara District – the centre of teak furniture production in Indonesia…
Multi-agent simulation of alternative scenarios of collaborative forest management
International calls for sustainable development advocate that forest management should be carried out in a multi-stakeholder environment. The importance of community participation is acknowledged in the Indonesian act no. 41 on Forestry (1999). However, it is not clear how to achieve this in areas already allocated to a concession holder.
Governing forest plantation to reduce poverty and improve forest landscape: a multiagent simulation approach
Good forest governance lets all relevant stakeholders participate in the decision-making processes. Illegal logging and forest degradation are currently increasing, and logging bans are ineffective in reducing forest degradation. At the same time interest in forest plantations and concern about poverty problems of people adjacent to forests continue to increase…
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