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Community Forestry in Myanmar: Some Field Realities
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Oliver Springate-Baginski, Maung Maung Than, School of...
2011
Myanmar’s Community Forestry programme began in with the Community Forestry Instruction of 1995. Since then over two hundred and fifty Forest User Groups have been formed across...
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: Desk Reference
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Timor-Leste, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Korea, Republic of, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2015
This document is one of three main publications of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015). It contains data for most of the quantitative and Boolean variables c...
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Global Forest Resource Assessment 2010: Main Report
Cambodia, Timor-Leste, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
2010
The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) is the most comprehensive assessment of forests and forestry to date - not only in terms of the number of countries and pe...
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: Country Report - Thailand
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Korn Mannassrisuksi
2014
This is an FAO report. FAO, at the request of its member countries, regularly monitors the world´s forests and their management and uses through the Global Forest Resources Asse...
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Identifying Conservation Issues in Kachin State
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tint Lwin Thaung
2007
Kachin State in northern Myanmar is home to many biological hotspots, including subtropical moist forests, hill forests, alpine meadows and broadleaf and conifer forests (Olson ...
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Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Raja Devasish Roy, Minority Rights Group International
2005
For years, traditional laws – or customary laws – in Asia have been eroded. This report argues that remaining customary laws should be retained and discusses the extent to which...
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Transfer Pricing
Thailand
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
The Revenue Department of Thailand
2002
International business transactions have increased dramatically over the years. Investment has increasingly expanded at an unprecedented rate in many countries. These internati...
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Outcomes of State- vs. Community-Based Mangrove Management in Southern Thailand
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Chanyut Sudtongkong and Edward L. Webb
2008
In Thailand, mangrove forests are claimed for state management, although it is widely recognized that coastal communities access and manage those forests. Skepticism persists wi...
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A Choice for China: Ending the Destruction of Burma’s Northern Frontier Forests
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Global Witness
2005
This report makes the case for ending the illegal logging in Burma’s northern forests. Although the management of Burma’s forests is primarily the responsibility of the relev...
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A Disharmonious Trade: China and the Continued Destruction of Burma’s Northern Frontier Forests
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Global Witness
2009
This is the third in a series of reports on illegal logging in Burma. It is based on field research carried out between 2005 and 2009 in Kachin State, along the Burma-China bord...
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Status of Tropical Forest Management 2011: Thailand Country Profile
Thailand
Profiles - Geographical areas and sites
Blaser, J., Sarre, A., Poore, D. & Johnson, S.
2011
Forestry in Thailand is constrained by several factors. Coincident with Thailand's rapid economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s, its forest resources became severely depleted. L...
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Baseline Study 5, Thailand: Overview of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Kevin Woods, Keith Barney, and Kerstin Canby
2011
The data used for this report was collected by Kevin Woods and based on literature reviews as well as semistructured interviews with RFD officials, academics in Thai universitie...
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Summary Report: ITTO Statistical Training Workshop
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Royal Forest Department of the Kingdom of Thailand, International...
2011
As Royal Forest Department (RFD) by Office of International Cooperation on Forestry had organized a workshop on Forest Products Statistic in Thailand, which was supported by Int...
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Does Land Tenure Security Enhance Sustainable Land Management? Evidence from Mountainous Regions of Thailand and Vietnam
Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
Andreas Neef, Chapika Sangkapitux, Klaus Kirchmann, University of Hohenheim
2000
Neoclassical theory states that land tenure security plays an important role in determining long-term investment for sustainable land use. The case studies from Thailand and Vie...
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The development of forest plantations in Thailand
Thailand
Case studies
Narong Mahannop
2004
This is a country case study for Thailand from a publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific “What does i...
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Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses — 2018 Edition
Thailand
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Noguerón, R., L. Cheung, J. Mason, and B. Li.
2018
This publication updates the 2014 version of Sourcing Legally Produced Wood, which provided information on illegal logging and associated trade, public and private procurement p...
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Evaluation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan (Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade) 2004-2014
Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
TEREA, S fof S & Top Perspective
2016
A team of eight experts has conducted an independent evaluation of eleven years (2004-2014) of implementation of the EU Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trad...
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FLEGT Global
Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Advocacy and promotional materials
FLEGT.org
Countries around the world are acting to combat illegal logging and foster good forest governance. In this section of FLEGT.org you will find information about the approaches th...
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No success like failure: Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Benjamin Hodgdon
2007
Benjamin Hodgdon chronicles the experience of an NGO-supported project recently discontinued by the Lao government to highlight the ongoing serious problems plaguing Laos’ produ...
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Corruption, bloodshed and death – the curse of rosewood
Thailand
Archived web content
Roger Arnold, Environmental Investigating Society
2013
Blogpost on the status of rosewood in the protected areas of Thailand.