Brian Belcher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brian Belcher is a Canadian social scientist, currently a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Research Effectiveness at Royal Roads University. From October through December 2015 he was a Fellow at the Durham University Institute of Advanced Study.
Brian Belcher's Published Works
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Published Works
- Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview (2005) (1032)
- Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis (2014) (860)
- Global patterns and trends in the use and management of commercial NTFPs: implications for livelihoods and conservation (2005) (529)
- Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products: A Reality Check (2007) (399)
- Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base (2014) (261)
- Markets Drive the Specialization Strategies of Forest Peoples (2004) (252)
- Balancing development and conservation? An assessment of livelihood and environmental outcomes of Nontimber Forest Product Trade in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (2006) (200)
- Defining and assessing research quality in a transdisciplinary context (2016) (156)
- Case study: the potential of bamboo resources in mountainous China (2000) (146)
- The Role of Forest-Related Income in Household Economies and Rural Livelihoods in the Border-Region of Southern China (2013) (129)
- China's forests: global lessons from market reforms. (2003) (111)
- Rattan, rubber, or oil palm: cultural and financial considerations for farmers in kalimantan (2004) (100)
- Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia (2005) (96)
- Forest-Based Livelihoods Strategies Conditioned by Market Remoteness and Forest Proximity in Jharkhand, India (2015) (77)
- Forest Product Markets, Forests and Poverty Reduction (2005) (70)
- The evolution of REDD+ (2012) (68)
- The Contribution of Bamboo to Household Income and Rural Livelihoods in a Poor and Mountainous County in Guangxi, China (2013) (63)
- A production-to-consumption systems approach: lessons from the bamboo and rattan sectors in Asia (1998) (62)
- The socioeconomic conditions determining the development, persistence, and decline of forest garden systems (2005) (58)
- Forest products, livelihoods and conservation: case studies of non-timber forest product systems. volume 1 - Asia (2004) (57)
- Forest Product Markets, Forests and Poverty Reduction1 (2005) (55)
- The role of bamboo plantations in rural development: the case of Anji County, Zhejiang, China (1999) (54)
- Non-timber forest product commercialisation: development and conservation lessons (2004) (45)
- An international comparison of cases of forest product development: overview, description and data requirements (2001) (44)
- Looking Through the Bamboo Curtain: An Analysis of the Changing Role of Forest and Farm Income in Rural Livelihoods in China (2004) (40)
- Spatial patterns and processes of bamboo expansion in Southern China (2008) (36)
- Linking transdisciplinary research characteristics and quality to effectiveness: A comparative analysis of five research-for-development projects (2019) (35)
- Will Agroforests Vanish? The Case of Damar Agroforests in Indonesia (2008) (35)
- Communities, Forests and Governance: Policy and Institutional Innovations from Nepal (2008) (31)
- Evaluating policy-relevant research: lessons from a series of theory-based outcomes assessments (2017) (28)
- Outcomes and Impacts of Development Interventions (2018) (27)
- Bamboo forestry in China: toward environmentally friendly expansion (2001) (26)
- Carving Out a Future: Forests, Livelihoods and the International Woodcarving Trade (2005) (24)
- Environmental incomes and rural livelihoods : a global-comparative assessment (2011) (24)
- A refined method for theory-based evaluation of the societal impacts of research (2020) (22)
- Policy change in China: the effects on the bamboo sector in Anji county (1996) (20)
- Development of a Village-Level Livelihood Monitoring Tool: A Case-Study in Viengkham District, LAO PDR (2013) (18)
- A patent on life: ownership of plant and animal research. (1991) (18)
- 6 Chapter Multiple levels and multiple challenges for REDD + (2012) (18)
- Why are forest areas relevant to reducing poverty in Indonesia (2004) (17)
- A method to assess the outcomes of forest product trade on livelihoods and the environment (2005) (17)
- Cultivating (in) Tropical forests?: the evolution and sustainability of systems of management between extractivism and plantations (2000) (13)
- Forestry, Poverty, and Rural Development: Perspectives from the Bamboo Subsector (2003) (13)
- Understanding and evaluating the impact of integrated problem-oriented research programmes: Concepts and considerations (2020) (13)
- Leading inter- and transdisciplinary research: Lessons from applying theories of change to a strategic research program (2021) (13)
- Crossing the science-policy interface: Lessons from a research project on Brazil nut management in Peru (2020) (12)
- Rattan (Calamus spp.) gardens of Kalimantan: resilience and evolution in a managed non-timber forest product system (2004) (12)
- A Framework for Assessing Development Options (1995) (12)
- 0 Topic 2 : Non-timber forest products ( NTFPs ) , small-scale logging and rural livelihoods Global patterns and trends in NTFP development (2004) (11)
- Pathway to impact: Is REDD+ a viable theory of change? (2018) (11)
- Assessing participatory photography as a method to understand local perspectives on environment and development in northern Lao PDR (2012) (11)
- Community-based Forest Management Programmes in Nepal: An Overview of Contexts, Policies, Practices and Issues (2008) (11)
- Can sandalwood in East Nusa Tenggara survive? Lessons from the policy impact on resource sustainability. (2000) (10)
- Proceedings of the Workshop Cultivating (in) Tropical Forests?: the Evolution and Sustainability of Systems of Management between Extractivism and Plantations, 28 June – 1 July 2000, Kraemmervika, Lofoten, Norway (2004) (10)
- PEOPLE AND PLANTS INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION SERIES (2008) (9)
- Wood, Fuelwood, and Non-wood Forest Products (2005) (9)
- The Relationship between Forest Research and Forest Management in China: An Analysis of Four Leading Chinese Forestry Journals (2004) (8)
- Rattan cultivation and livelihoods: the changing scenario in Kalimantan (2001) (8)
- Maintaining the contract responsibility system of forest land distribution in China: Evidence from a novel financial compensation scheme in Daxi Village of Anji County, Zhejiang (2013) (8)
- Comparison of bamboo production systems in six counties in China (2001) (7)
- The Role of bamboo in development (1996) (7)
- Ecological footprints: carving, sustainability and scarcity (2005) (7)
- Carving out a future: planning for woodcarving in the 21st century (2005) (7)
- VORTEX MODEL OF OPEN CHANNEL FLOWS WITH GRAVEL BEDS (2009) (7)
- NTFPs – income for rural populations or not (2001) (6)
- Constraints and opportunities in rattan production-to-consumption systems in Asia (1999) (6)
- The political ecology of forest products in Indonesia: a history of changing adversaries (2003) (5)
- Replication Data for: Environmental income and rural livelihoods: a global comparative analysis (2017) (5)
- Developing community-based forest enterprises in Nepal (2008) (5)
- Mengapa kawasan hutan penting bagi penanggulangan kemiskinan di Indonesia (2004) (5)
- Devolution as a Means of Expanding Local Forest Management in South China: Lessons from the Past 20 Year (2015) (5)
- Forest, poverty and conservation: an overview of the issues (2013) (5)
- The socio-economic and environmental roles of bamboo in rural China (2009) (5)
- Stakeholder perceptions of scientific knowledge in policy processes: A Peruvian case-study of forestry policy development (2019) (5)
- Resilience and evolution in a managed NTFP system: evidence from the rattan gardens of Kalimantan (2004) (4)
- CREATING POLICIES TO CONTAIN UNPRODUCTIVE DEFORESTATION (1994) (4)
- How to make money from forest products (2005) (3)
- Getting out of the woods: learning from a comparison of cases (2005) (3)
- Bamboo, people and the environment : proceedings of the Vth International Bamboo Workshop and the IV International Bamboo Congress, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 19-22 June 1995; volume 4, socio-economics and culture (1996) (3)
- Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach (2008) (2)
- Finding appropriate definitions and measures of research quality for transdisciplinary and applied natural resource management research: a systematic review protocol (2013) (2)
- CIFOR research: forest products and people, rattan issues (2002) (2)
- The feasibility of rattan cultivation within shifting cultivation systems: the role of policy and market institutions (2007) (2)
- Retraction: A response to Hansson and Polk (2018) “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact” (2018) (2)
- Evaluating and improving the contributions of university research to social innovation (2021) (2)
- Conceptualizing the elements of research impact: towards semantic standards (2021) (2)
- Support to the Development of Agroforestry Concessions in Peru (SUCCESS) Project (2021) (2)
- Natural Channel Design, Construction and Monitoring (2002) (1)
- Livelihoods, carving and conservation (2005) (1)
- Analysis of social economy and policies on production management systems: a case study on Chinas bamboo industry (1997) (1)
- Evaluation Report. Oil Palm Portfolio. An Outcome Evaluation of FTA’s Research Portfolio on Oil Palm (2021) (1)
- 18 Chapter Summary and conclusions REDD + without regrets (2012) (1)
- A response to Hansson and Polk (2018) “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact” (2018) (1)
- Supporting Canada's non-timber forest product sector: lessons from Manitoba's Northern Forest Diversification Centre. (2010) (1)
- Deforestation and Reforestation in Hainan: Roles of Markets and Institutions (2015) (0)
- Assessing the Contribution of Research to Improved Policy and Practice (2020) (0)
- Assessment of spatial and temporal dynamics of livelihoods: A methodological perspective (2006) (0)
- Tropical forests in poverty alleviation: from household data to global-comparative analysis. End of Award Report. (2011) (0)
- A method for comparative analysis of NTFP cases: a test with cases from Indonesia: a poster presented at XII IUFRO World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. August, 7 - 12 (2000) (0)
- Estimating potential rattan cultivation area using Remote Sensing, GIS, and socio-economic data; a test of the method in the districts of Pasir and Kutai, East Kalimantan (2000) (0)
- Central Characteristics of Reform: Measures of the Effects of Improved Property Rights, a Stable Policy Environment, and Environmental Protection (2015) (0)
- Replication Data for: Forest based livelihood strategies conditioned by market remoteness and proximity in Jharkhand, India (2017) (0)
- Contribution of bamboo industry to livelihood of local farmers in Tianlin County of Guangxi (2008) (0)
- Increasing forest benefits through the leasehold forestry and livestock programme: improving its implementation and effectiv eness (2008) (0)
- A comparative advantage for comparative analyses: lessons from a multi-case study. (2008) (0)
- Concepts for the design and evaluation of change-oriented research (2021) (0)
- Effects of social economy and policies on production management systems: a case study of China’s bamboo industries (1998) (0)
- Comparative Analysis of 12 Indonesian non-timber forest products cases (2000) (0)
- RAND Standards for High-Quality and Objective Research and Analysis (2022) (0)
- An International Comparison of Cases of Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) Development (2017) (0)
- Non-timber forest products: selected publications from CIFOR (2004) (0)
- Escapade to the Motherland (2017) (0)
- Book of Abstracts: FTA 2020 Science Conference (2021) (0)
- Converting land use change to CO2 estimates (2012) (0)
- Theory of change (2020) (0)
- Sustainability Research Effectiveness exhibit (2020) (0)
- Conceptualizing the elements of research impact: towards semantic standards (2021) (0)
- 4 Chapter REDD + and the global economy Competing forces and policy options (2012) (0)
- Remote sensing and statistical data analysis as tools to understand forest livelihood strategies (1999) (0)
- Conclusions and policy implications (2003) (0)
- The assessment on the outcome of Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade on livelihood and the environment (2017) (0)
- 2 ^ 3 01259 CHAPTER 8 Forestry , Poverty , and Rural Depelopment . Perspectives from the Bamboo Subsector (2009) (0)
- Supporting Canada’s NTFP Sector: Lessons from Manitoba’s Northern Forest Diversification Centre (2010) (0)
- 258 Ecosystems and Human Well-being : Policy Responses BOXES 8 (2006) (0)
- Analysing REDD + Challenges and choices (2012) (0)
- “Research that makes a difference”: Conceptualizing and assessing the Royal Roads University research model (2016) (0)
- Remote sensing and statistical analysis as tools to understand forest livelihood strategies: poster presented at the International Conference on Data Management and Modelling Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Tropical Forest Land Inventory, Jakarta, Indone (1998) (0)
- Peer Reviewers (2019) (0)
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