PLEC
NEWS
AND
VIEWS
No. 2, FEBRUARY
1994
CONTENTS
Page
POPULATION, LAND MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (PLEC)
A short statement by the Scientific Advisory Group
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THE CHIANG MAI GENERAL PROJECT MEETING
30 May to 3 June 1994
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FROM THE EDITOR: PLEC NEWS
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Half a Year of Progress and Uncertainty
3
The Coordinators and the Scientific Advisory Group
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Special Announcement
A PLEC Special Number of Global Environmental Change
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REPORTS FROM THE CLUSTERS
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West Africa
10
East Africa
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Northern Thailand and Southern Yunnan
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Papua New Guinea
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Amazonian Brazil
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SHORT PAPERS, NOTES AND VIEWS
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Women as farmers in Ghana
by Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf
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Deciphering Land Use History from Hill Slopes: An example from New Guinea
by Geoff S. Humphreys
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The Amazon Floodplain: the next major frontier for food production
by E. Adilson Serrão
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Short Abstracts of Selected Papers Delivered at the Belém Meeting
of the Amazon Cluster
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Lake Reserve and Communal-Based Management of Várzea Resources
by David G. McGrath
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Implantation of a Conservation Unit in an Area of Várzea: the Mamiraua experience
by Deborah Lima Ayres
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Management of Floodplain Resources in the Peruvian Amazon: a review of
recent research by Christine Padoch
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