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Removing barriers to the commercialisation of agroforestry trees in Nepal
No full textAbstract not availableS M Amatya, Ian Nuberg, Edwin Cedamon, and BH Pandi
Promoting smallholder forestry as a poverty alleviation measure in the Phillipines: A study focused on Leyte Province
No full textNick Emtage, Jungho Suh, Edwin Cedamon, Steve Harrison and John Herboh
EnLiFT Model 1.0: a livelihood and food security model for a forest-farm system
No full textAbstract not availableEdwin Cedamon, Ian Nuberg, Betha Lusiana, Rachmat Mulia, Bishnu Pandit, Yuba Raj Subedi, Krishna Shresth
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
How understanding of rural households’ diversity can inform agroforestry and community forestry programs in Nepal
No full textSocio-economic diversity can help to bring about innovative development in agroforestry practices. The diversity of households in the mid-Nepal hills was analysed using survey data from 521 randomly selected households in six villages. A cluster analysis derived the following household typology based on socio-economic variables—Type 1: resource-poor Brahmin/Chhetri; Type 2: resource-poor Janajati; Type 3: resource-rich mixed-caste households; Type 4: resource-rich Brahmin/Chhetri; Type 5: resource-rich Janajati; Type 6: resource-poor Dalit households. The analysis revealed that social status (caste/ethnicity), household status on foreign employment and landholding are strong predictors of household segmentation in rural Nepal. This paper suggests revision of existing wellbeing ranking approaches using these socio-economic variables for more inclusive and equitable agroforestry and community forestry outcomes.E. Cedamon, I. Nuberg and K.K. Shresth
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
2.7 Changing forestry interests in the mid-hills of Nepal: Implications for silviculture policy and practice
No full textThis is a Thematic paper within the report Paudel, N.S., Ojha, H., Banjade, M.R., Karki, R. and Tamang, S. (Eds.). 2021. Revitalising community forestry in the changing socioeconomic context of Nepal. Kathmandu: EnLiFT2 programme and ForestAction Nepal. Research Paper Series on Improved Forest Management in Nepal, 2022-01: 1-86.Forests continue to play important livelihood roles in rural Nepal. However, forest and society relationships are at a new crossroads, driven by a political regime shift and profound changes in the socio-economic context associated with a transition in the agrarian economy. A prominent example of changing forest-society relation is the declining household dependency on major community forest products such as timber and firewood. Increasing outmigration and remittances are a component of that reduced household dependency on community forest, but there has also been a trend to an intensification of agricultural and forestry activities on private lands and a greater reliance on non-farm income. While these changes have been identified only recently, concerns had been raised as to how forest policies and silviculture regimes could be reflective and responsive to community forest users and private forest owners having multiple forest management objectives. Here we discuss the key results emerging from a recent socio-ecological analysis of the perceptions of rural respondents in Nepal, to describe how the households’ aims and activities appear to be changing in relation to the forest.Edwin Cedamon, Douglas Bardsley, and Ian Nuber
Applications of single-tree selection guideline folllowing a DBq approach on Nepal's community forests
No full textThere is growing interest by forest users, government forest officers and policy makers on maximising forest goods and livelihood provisions from community forestry in a sustainable manner. However, the way several mature community forests are currently managed based on selection, e.g. negative thinning and crown thinning, is questionable as it results to decline in forest stock, timber quality and regeneration. To assist forest users in managing their community forests, an action research was implemented in Kavre and Lamjung to manage planted Pine (Pinus spp.) and naturallyregenerated Sal (Shorea robusta) through selection system. This paper describes the q-factor and its relevance for sustainable community forest management in Nepal. The simple guideline for selection system introduced to 30 community forest users groups in six sites are presented for wider adoption and policy recommendation.E. Cedamon, G. Paudel, M. Basyal, I. Nuberg and K. K. Shresth
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