| Title | The International Forestry Resources and Institutions research program: a methodology for relating human incentives and actions on forest cover and biodiversity |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Authors | Ostrom E |
| Journal | Forest biodiversity in North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean: research and monitoring. |
| Pagination | 1-28 |
| Abstract | This papers is in 3 parts. The first reviews several models that include socioeconomic factors and their impact on the environment and deforestation as these affect forest biodiversity. The paper then briefly discusses what is known from macro- and micro-level studies on the effect of human choices on the levels of deforestation and biodiversity. The third and major part describes the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research programme and summarizes some of the initial findings from a pilot study in Uganda. The IFRI programme is based at Indiana University (USA), and has collaborating centres in Bolivia, Nepal and Uganda (others are envisaged). It is a micro-level, multi-year, multi-country study that combines careful (mensurational) measurements derived from a random sample of plots in forests about which substantial, systematic social science data are also collected. |