Multi-level governance of forest resources (Editorial to the special feature – Part 2)

Self-Governance and Forest Resources

Forest resources share attributes with many other resource systems that make difficult their governance and management in a sustainable, efficient, and equitable manner. While some ‘forests’ are small enough that fencing them or protecting their borders from intrusion is relatively easy, excluding beneficiaries from access and use of most forests is costly. The difficulty of exclusion creates t...

Understanding Adaptive Capacity in Forest Governance: Editorial

INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY The term adaptive capacity has often been used to indicate the role that various factors may play in determining the extent to which adaptation to climate change different actions to deal with the consequences of climate change is possible. While the focus on adaptive capacity has been pronounced within climate change liter...

Special Feature Report from the Editorial Office

In July 2002, we started our second 3-year term as the Editors of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT). We are pleased to see that a large readership consults the journal, either in its usual paper format or in its more recently introduced electronic format. Important changes in manuscript handling have occurred in the last 2 years, as outlined below. We also give an update on manuscript f...

EDITORIAL Editorial — International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean ( IWMO ) special issue part 2 in ocean dynamics

Guest Editorial: WABI Special Section Part ll

THE Fourth International Workshop on Algorithms in BIoinformatics (WABI) 2004 was held in Bergen, Norway, September 2004. The program committee consisted of 33 members and selected, among 117 submissions, 39 to be presented at the workshop and included in the proceedings from the workshop (volume 3240 of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, series edited by Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner, and Michael...