Janette Bulkan

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

UBC Open Education Resource Champion (2019). https://open.ubc.ca/oer-champions/forestry/

UBC Great Supervisor Award (2019). https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/initiatives-plans-reports/great-supervisor-week

UBC Great Supervisor Award (2018).

Bulkan, J. (2022, October 19). Challenges to Commonwealth “Green Transitions”: The case of Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. School of Advanced Study, University of London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N6FdZD_v7I; https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/challenges-commonwealth-green-transitions .

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Guyana’s environment and coastal livelihoods in the time of oil’, Guyana Symposium on Oil. Oil and Gas Governance Network, New York City. 13 August 2022. Available at: https://www.oggn.org/2022/08/13/guyanas-environment-and-coastal-livelihoods-in-the-time-of-oil-by-dr-janette-bulkan/. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOrrROz2T8

Bulkan, J. (2022). Artisanal fisheries: safeguards in the Environmental Protection Act and metrics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). GREEN Institute, 22 April 2022. Available from: https://greeninstitute.gy/event/artisanal-fisheries-safeguards-in-the-environmental-protection-act-and-the-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs/.

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 30). Oil exploration and production offshore Guyana. The Impact of Extractivism: Ecocide, Climate Crisis and Human Rights Abuses in the Caribbean. Freedom Imaginaries. https://freedomimaginaries.org/event/beyond-extractivism-webinar2/

Bulkan, J. (2021, October 26). Extractive industries, rights and climate change in Guyana. IACHR Hearing on Extractive Industries, Rights and Climate Change in the Caribbean. https://caribbeannewsupdates.blogspot.com/2021/10/iachr-hearing-on-extractive-industries.html; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zORVK5msIM

Bulkan, J. (2021, September 1). Given the climate crisis, is extraction viable? Making up Your Mind about Natural Resources and the Extractive Sector. Policy Forum Guyana. https://iphone.facebook.com/events/814160305912119?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3

Bulkan, J. (2021). The Current for May 21, 2021. The Current. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-21-2021-1.6035742

Bulkan, J. (2020, October 20). Guyana’s land sovereignty: a geopolitical review. University of Guyana GREEN Institute. https://greeninstitute.gy/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UGGI-Quarterly-Dialogue-March-2022.pdf

Bulkan, J. (2016, April 28). ‘Settling Indigenous rights and building a social contract’. Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Conference. Belize City, Belize. 28 April 2016; http://caribbeanimpact.org/website/impact-justice-hosts-conference-of-the-indigenous-peoples-of-the-caribbean-in-belize/.

Ogura, S., Forwell, S., Backman, C., Lincoln, N. K., & Bulkan, J. (accepted). Meaning of small grains cultivation as a traditional occupation in Japan. Journal of Occupational Science.

Lopez de la Lama, Rocio; Bennett, Nathan; Bulkan, Janette; Boyd, David; Chan, K. (2023). A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14068

Smith, T., Koskas; and Bulkan, J. (2023) ‘“Loved to Death”: Conflicts between Indigenous food sovereignty, settler recreation, and ontologies of land in the governance of Líl̓wat tmicw’, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly No 2016: Winter 2022/2023. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no216.196947.

Lewis, S. R. and Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘The political logics of EU-FLEGT in Thailand’s multistakeholder negotiations: Hegemony and resistance’, Journal of Political Ecology, 29(1), pp. 383–404. doi: 10.2458/jpe.2398.

Adeyanju, S. Bulkan, J. et al. (2022) ‘Drivers of biodiversity conservation in sacred groves: A comparative study of three sacred groves in southwest Nigeria’, International Journal of the Commons, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi. org/10.5334/ijc.1143.

Ortiz, D., Bulkan, J. and Vélez, J. J. (2022) ‘Forestry sector, alternative for peace and sustainable development in Colombia. Coffee region case’, Bosque, 43(1), pp. 57–67. doi: 10.4067/S0717-92002022000100057.

Wyatt, S., Bulkan, J., de Jong, W., & Gabay, M. (2022) ‘Recognizing Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and their identity, culture, rights and governance of forestlands: Introduction to the Special Issue’, International Forestry Review. Edited by S. Wyatt et al. International Forestry Review, 24(3), pp. 257–268.

Bulkan, J. (2021). The limits of State territorialization: Geopolitics and petroleum in Guyana. Social and Economic Studies, 70(3&4), 72–105.

Soma, T., Shulman, T, Li, B, Bulkan, J,. Curtis, M. (2021). Food assets for whom? Community perspectives on food asset mapping in Canada. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability.

Smith T. & Bulkan, J. (2021.) A New Relationship? Reflections on British Columbia’s 2003 Forest Revitalization Plan from the Perspective of the Lil’wat First Nation. Land Use Policy, 105, June 2021, 105345.

Bulkan, J. (2020) Smallholder forestry in the FSC system: a review. Revue Gouvernance.

Bulkan, J. & Palmer, J. (2020). Guyana. In The Indigenous World 2020 (pp. 426–437). Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

Caverley, N., Lyall, A., Pizzirani, S., & Bulkan, J. (2020). Articulating Indigenous rights within the inclusive development framework: an assessment of forest stewardship policies and practices in British Columbia, Canada. Society & Natural Resources, 33(1), 25-45. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1597237

Wilson, W. M., Bulkan, J., Piperata, B. A., & Hicks, K. (2019). Secular trends in adult stature among the Makushi of Guyana in the 20th Century. American Journal of Human Biology, 31(5) e23285. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23285

Addo-Danso, A., Bulkan, J., & Innes, J. L. (2019). Incentives for the development of bamboo plantations in Ghana : A case study of the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions. International Forestry Review, 21(2), 131–148.

Bulkan, Janette. (2019). The place of bitter cassava in the social organization and belief systems of two Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. CAFE. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 41(2), 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12228

Smith, T., Bulkan, J., Zerriffi, H., & Tansey, J. (2019). Indigenous peoples, local communities and Payments for Ecosystem Services. The Canadian Geographer, 63(4), 616–630. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12553

Spies, J., Devisscher, T., Bulkan, J., Tansey, J., & Verena C. Griess. (2019). Value-oriented criteria, indicators and targets for conservation and production: A multi-party approach to forest management planning. Biological Conservation 230, 151–68.

van den Boog, T., Bulkan, J., Tansey, J., & Van Andel, T. (2018). Sustainability issues of commercial Non-Timber Forest Product extraction in West Suriname. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 16.

van den Boog, T., van Andel, T., & Bulkan, J. (2017). Indigenous children’s knowledge about Non-Timber Forest Products in Suriname. Economic Botany, 71(4), 361–373.

Bulkan, J. (2017). Indigenous forest management. CAB Reviews, [Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau] 12(4), 1–16. http://doi.org/10.1079/PAVSNNR201712004.

de Andrade, R. B., Balch, J. K., Parsons, A. L., Armenteras, D., Roman-Cuesta, R. M., & Bulkan, J. (2017). Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: Carbon stock trajectories for REDD+. Carbon Balance and Management, 12(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1186/s13021-017-0074-0.

Bulkan, J. (2016). “Original lords of the soil”? Amerindian rights and the expansion of State power in Guyana. Environment and History, 22(3), 351–391. http://doi.org/DOI: http://10.3197/096734016X14661540219276.

Bulkan, J. (2016). Rentier States in Guyana and Suriname and the consequent lack of a social contract. Archaeology and Anthropology, 20(1), 2–18. 19. Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. R. (2016). Rentier nation: landlordism, patronage and power in Guyana’s gold mining sector. Journal of Extractive Industries and Society, 3, 676–689. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2016.05.001.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. R. (2016). Global ecological signpost, local reality: the Moraballi Creek studies in Guyana and what happened afterwards. Forests, 7, 1-33; doi:10.3390/f7120317.

Beaudoin, J., Bouthillier, L., Bulkan, J., Nelson, H., & Wyatt, S. (2016). What does “First Nation deep roots in the forests” mean? Identification of principles and objectives for promoting forest-based development. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 46, 508-519.

Bulkan, J. (2016, September 5). Bai Shan Lin: the Chinese logger with multiple interests in Guyana. ChinaDialogue. London. [10th most read article in 2016 on the ChinaDialogue website]. Re-published by: http://www.illegal-logging.info/content/bai-shan-lin-chinese-logger-multiple-interests-guyana; https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/janette-bulkan/in-guyana-future-of-forests-and-rule-of-law-hangs-in-balance

Bulkan, J. (2016). UNDRIP endorsed by Federal Canada: Consequences for the BC Forest Sector. BC Forest Professional, (September-October).

Bulkan, J. (2016). Book Review: Barbosa, L. C. (2015). Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental organizations and development. London: Earthscan. In: International Forestry Review, 18(4), 522–523.

Bulkan, J. (2015). Associations in name only: small loggers’ associations in Guyana. International Forestry Review, 17(2), 128–140.

Beaudoin, J., Bouthillier, L., Bulkan, J., Nelson, H., & Wyatt, S. (2015). Community-based enterprise as a strategy for development in Aboriginal communities: learning from Essipit’s forest enterprises. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 9(2), 24–40.

Bulkan, J. (2014). Forest grabbing through forest concession practices: the case of Guyana. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 33(4), 407–434. http://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2014.899502.

Bulkan, J. (2014). REDD letter days: entrenching political racialization and State patronage through the Norway-Guyana REDD-plus agreement. Social and Economic Studies, 63(3,4), 249–279.

Bulkan, J. (2013). The struggle for recognition of the Indigenous voice: Amerindians in Guyanese politics. The Round Table.The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 102(4), 367–380. http://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2013.795009.

Bulkan, J. (2012). Book review. Mathews, A. S. (2011). Instituting Nature: authority, expertise and power in Mexican forests. Cambridge: The MIT Press. In: Global Environmental Politics 12(4), 155-6.

Wilson, W. M., Bulkan, J., Piperata, B. A., Hicks, K., & Ehlers, P. (2011). Nutritional status of Makushi Amerindian children and adolescents of Guyana. Ann Hum Biol, 38(5), 615–629. http://doi.org/10.3109/03014460.2011.588248.

Bulkan, J. (2010). Book review. Butt Colson, A. J. (2009). Land. Its occupation, management, use and conceptualization: the case of the Akawaio and Arekuna of the Upper Mazaruni District, Guyana. Somerset: Last Refuge Ltd. In: Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 8(1), Article 4.

Palmer, J., & Bulkan, J. (2010). Legitimacy of public domain forest taxation, and combatting corruption in forestry. International Forestry Review, 12(2), 150–164. http://doi.org/10.1505/ifor.12.2.150.

Wilson W. and Bulkan, J. (2009). Sex differences in linear-growth faltering among the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana: female buffering or preferential treatment of daughters? Abstract. Am J Hum Biol 21, 274–275.

Bulkan, J. (2009). Book review. Magrath, W. B., Stuckey, R. L., Vikanes, G. B., & Wilkinson., G. R. (2007). Timber theft prevention: Introduction to security for forest managers. Washington, DC. In: International Forestry Review 11(1), 147-148.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. (2008). Breaking the rings of forest corruption: steps towards better forest governance. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 18(2), 103–131. http://doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2008.9752624.

Wilson, W., Milner, J., Bulkan, J., & Ehlers, P. (2006). Weaning practices of the Makushi of Guyana and their relationship to infant and child mortality: a preliminary assessment of international recommendations. American Journal of Human Biology : The Official Journal of the Human Biology Council, 18(3), 312–24. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20500.

Bulkan, J. (2003). Review essay. Atlas of the Languages of Suriname. Eithne B. Carlin and Jacques Arends, eds. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press. ISBN 906718196X.

Forte, J. (1999). Karikuri: the evolving relationship of the Karinya people of Guyana to gold mining. New West Indian Guide, 1 & 2(73), 59–82.

Forte, J. (1998). Impact of the gold industry on the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. Transition. Special issue. Guyana’s gold industry: evolution, structure, impacts & non-wage benefits, 27/28, 71–96.

Forte, J. (1990). The case of “The Barama River Caribs of Guyana restudied.” Social and Economic Studies, 39(1), 203–217.

Forte, J. (1990). The populations of Amerindian settlements in the 1980s. Timehri: the journal of the Guyana Society, 46, 38–51.

Forte, J. (1988). Los Pueblos Indígenas de Guyana. América Indigena, 48(2), 323–352.

 

Bulkan, J. (2023, August 3). Vreed-en-Hoop (Peace and Hope): Signpost of the oil oligarchy and political party paramountcy in Guyana. Energy Humanities. https://www.energyhumanities.ca/news/feature-vreed-en-hoop-peace-and-hope-signpost-of-the-oil-oligarchy-and-political-party-paramountcy-in-guyana

Bulkan, J. (2016, September 5). Bai Shan Lin: the Chinese logger with multiple interests in Guyana. ChinaDialogue. London. [10^th most read article in 2016 on the ChinaDialogue website]. Re-published by: http://www.illegal-logging.info/content/bai-shan-lin-chinese-logger-multiple-interests-guyana; https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/janette-bulkan/in-guyana-future-of-forests-and-rule-of-law-hangs-in-balance

Bulkan, J. (2016). UNDRIP endorsed by Federal Canada: Consequences for the BC Forest Sector. BC Forest Professional, (September-October).

Bulkan, J. (2016). Book Review: Barbosa, L. C. (2015). Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental organizations and development. London: Earthscan. In: International Forestry Review, 18(4), 522–523.

Bulkan, J. (2011 to 2015). News from Guyana: 15 columns on forest-related news published in the quarterly Commonwealth Forestry Association. CFA Newsletter, March 2011 to March 2015. 31 pp. http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/04/26/news-from-guyana-two-articles-about-guyana-by-janette-bulkan-in-the-commonwealth-forestry-association-newsletter/

Bulkan, J. (2012). Book review. Mathews, A. S. (2011). Instituting Nature: authority, expertise and power in Mexican forests. Cambridge: The MIT Press. In: Global Environmental Politics 12(4), 155-6.

Bulkan, J., Courtois, V., Joseph, L., & Young, B. (2012, September). Canadian First Nations elect forestry representatives to advise FSC. CFA Newsletter, 58, 1–2.

Bulkan, J. (2010). Book review. Butt Colson, A. J. (2009). Its occupation, management, use and conceptualization: the case of the Akawaio and Arekuna of the Upper Mazaruni District, Guyana. Somerset: Last Refuge Ltd. In: Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 8(1), Article 4.

Wilson W. and Bulkan, J. (2009). Sex differences in linear-growth faltering among the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana: female buffering or preferential treatment of daughters? Abstract. Am J Hum Biol 21, 274–275.

Bulkan, J. (2009). Book review. Magrath, W. B., Stuckey, R. L., Vikanes, G. B., & Wilkinson., G. R. (2007). Timber theft prevention: Introduction to security for forest managers. Washington, DC. In: International Forestry Review 11(1), 147-148.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. R. (2007). Lazy days at international banks: how Credit Suisse and HSBC support illegal logging and unsustainable timber harvesting by Samling/Barama in Guyana, and possible reforms. Report to Chatham House (Royal Institution for International Affairs) FLEGT update. London. 20 pp.

Palmer, J. R., & Bulkan, J. (2007). New colonial masters, Malaysian loggers in South America: how under-valuation of forest resources exposes Guyana to unscrupulous exploitation. CFA Newsletter, 38, 1–2, 11–13.

Wilson, W., Milner, J., Bulkan, J. (2006). Duration of exclusive breastfeeding and its relationship to childhood mortality among the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana. Abstract. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129 (Supplement 42), 189.

Wilson, W. and Bulkan, J. (2004). Anthropometric indices of nutritional status in Guyanese Makushi Amerindians. Abstract. American Journal of Human Biology 16(2), 229.

Wilson, Warren and Bulkan, (2004). Anthropometric indices of nutritional status in Guyanese Makushi Amerindians. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Human Biologists, Tampa, Florida, April 13 2004.

Bulkan, J. (2004). Reply to Niesten and Rice’s Comment. International Forestry Review, 6(1), 61–63, 65–66.

Bulkan, J. (2004, December). Report on Yale symposium on impacts of certification in developing and transitioning countries, June 10-11, 2004. CFA News, 27, 11–12.

Wilson, W., Piperata, B., Forte, J. (2001). Birth Order and Growth Among Makushi Indians of Guyana. Abstract. American Journal of Human Biology 13(1), 145-146.

Wilson, , Piperata, B. and Forte, J. (2001). Birth order and growth among Makushi Indians of Guyana. Poster presented at the American Association for Human Biology, Kansas City, Missouri, 28 March l2001.

Forte, J. (1990). Book review. Sojourners of the Caribbean: Ethnogenesis and ethnohistory of the Garifuna by Nancie L. Solien Gonzalez (1988). New West Indian Guide, 64(3/4), 165–168.

Forte, J. (1987). Book review. Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation by Peter G. Rivière, 1984. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 51. New West Indian Guide, 61(1/2), 75–78.

 

Curtis, M. and Bulkan, J. (2022) Agritechnology in British Columbia & the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Policy Brief. https://forestry.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Agritech-Policy-Brief.pdf

Aeyelts, Julie, Janette Bulkan, Xiaotao Bi, Roland Clift, Dominik Roeser, and Haoqi Wang. (2022). Flipping the Script on Slash Pile Burning: Leveraging Residual Fibre for a Prosperous, Sustainable Forest Industry. Brief No. 2. UBC Faculty of Forestry Policy Brief Series. https://forestry.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Biomass-Brief-2.pdf

Aeyelts, Julie, Janette Bulkan, Xiaotao Bi, Roland Clift, Dominik Roeser, and Haoqi Wang. (2022). Enhancing Biomass Utilization for Economic, Environmental, and Social Benefits in British Columbia – What Can Be Done? Brief No. 1. UBC Faculty of Forestry Policy Brief Series. https://forestry.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Biomass-Brief-1.pdf

 

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. (2023). Guyana. In The Indigenous World 2023. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

Bulkan, J., Palmer, J., Larson, A. M., & Hobley, M. (2022). Introduction. In J. Bulkan, J. Palmer, A. M. Larson, & M. Hobley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry (pp. 1–12). Routledge.

Bulkan, J., Palmer, J. R., Larson, A. M., & Hobley, M. (2022). Old World and New World collision: Historic land grabs and the contemporary recovery of Indigenous land management practices in the western USA. In J. Bulkan, J. R. Palmer, A. M. Larson, & M. Hobley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry (pp. 141–145). Routledge.

Bulkan, J., Palmer, J., Larson, A. M., & Hobley, M. (2022). Conclusion: Some paths ahead for Community Forestry. In J. Bulkan, J. Palmer, A. M. Larson, & M. Hobley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry (pp. 538–545). Routledge.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. (2022). Guyana. In The Indigenous World 2022 (pp. 411-423). International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

Bulkan, J. (2022). ‘Is we turn now’ – the carousel of political power in Guyana. In J. Mair & R. L. Keeble (Eds.), Oil Dorado? Guyana’s black gold (pp. 45–53). Bite-Sized Books.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. R. (2021). Guyana. In The Indigenous World 2021 (pp. 407–416). International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

Bulkan, Janette, & Palmer, J. (2020). Guyana. In The Indigenous World 2020 (pp. 426–437). Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

Bulkan, Janette. (2019). Settling indigenous rights and building a social contract in the circum-Caribbean territories of Belize, Guyana and Suriname. In L. Aje, T. Lacroix, & J. Misrahi-Barak (Eds.), Reimagining the Guyanas, Series PoCoPages, Coll. “Horizons anglophones” (pp. 137–156). Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. Retrieved from http://www.pulm.fr/index.php/collections/horizons-anglophones/pocopages.html

Bulkan, J., Palmer, J., & Maedel, J. (2019). Guyana. In D. N. Berger & D. Vinding (Eds.), The Indigenous World (pp. 180–189). Copenhagen: IWGIA.

Bulkan, Janette. (2019). Consolidation and implications of discretionary rule in the forestry and log trading sectors in Guyana, 1992–2015. In A. Bulkan & D. A. Trotz (Eds.), Unmasking the State: politics, society and economy in Guyana, 1992-2015. (pp. 325–365). Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.

Bulkan, J. (2017). Social, cultural and spiritual needs and values. In J. Innes & A. Tikina (Eds.), Sustainable forest management: from concept to practice. (pp. 241–256). London: Earthscan.

Bulkan, J. (2016). Hegemony in Guyana: REDD-Plus and State control over Indigenous Peoples and resources. In C. Campbell & M. Niblett (Eds.), The Caribbean: aesthetics, world-ecology, politics (pp. 118–142). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Bulkan, J. (2016). The limitations of international auditing: the case of the Norway-Guyana REDD+ agreement. In S. Paladino & S. J. Fiske (Eds.), The carbon fix: forest carbon, social justice and environmental governance. (pp. 91–106). London: Routledge.

Bulkan, J. (2011). Introduction. In David Dabydeen (Ed.), An inquiry into the animism and folk-lore of the Guiana Indians by Walter E. Roth (1915). Guyana Classics series. (pp. 1–17). London: The Caribbean Press.

Davenport, D., Bulkan, J., Hajjar, R., & Hardcastle, P. (2010). Forests and sustainability. In J. Rayner, A. Buck, & P. Katila (Eds.), Embracing complexity: meeting the challenges of international forest governance (pp. 75–91). Vienna: International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).

Bulkan, J. (2009). Indigenous languages of Guyana. In I. Sichra (Ed.), Atlas sociolingüístico de pueblos indígenas en América Latina (pp. 409–420). Cochabamba, Bolivia: FUNPROEIB Andes/Unicef/AECID.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. (2009). Scientific forestry and degraded forests: the story of Guiana Shield forests. In N. L. Whitehead & S. W. Aleman (Eds.), Anthropologies of Guayana: cultural spaces in Northeastern Amazonia (pp. 74–89). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Bulkan, J., & Bulkan, A. (2008). “Protector of Indians”: assessing Walter Roth’s legacy in policy towards Amerindians in Guyana. In R. McDougall & I. Davidson (Eds.), The Roth family: anthropology and colonial administration (pp. 255–264). Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press Inc.

Bulkan, J., & Bulkan, A. (2006). “These forests have always been ours”: official and vernacular discourses on Guyana’s forest estate. In Maximilian C. Forte (Ed.), Indigenous resurgence in the contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian survival and revival (pp. 135–155). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Forte, J., Mangal, S., & Watkins, G. (2003). El bosque pristino Iwokrama, Guyana. In J. Carabias, J. de la Maza, & R. Cadena (Eds.), America Latina y El Caribe: capacidades necesarias para el manejo de areas protegida (pp. 121–135). Mexico City: The Nature Conservancy and IUCN.

Forte, J. (2000). Amerindian languages of Guyana. In F. Queixalos & O. Renault-Lescure (Eds.), As linguas Amazonicas hoje (pp. 317–333). Sao Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental.

Forte, J., & Pierre, L. (1995). Survey of forest use in Region 1, Guyana. In Situation analysis. Indigenous use of the forest, with emphasis on Region 1. (J. Forte, Ed.) (pp. 12–22). Georgetown: University of Guyana.

Forte, J. (1997). Mining in Guyana and its impact on Amerindian communities in the Upper Mazaruni District. In P. E. Williams, J. T. Parry, & M. J. Eden (Eds.), Land use, land degradation and land management in Guyana. (pp. 68–83). London: Commonwealth Geographical Bureau.

Forte, J. (1993). Amerindians and poverty. In Poverty in Guyana: finding solutions. Georgetown: University of Guyana.

 

Khusial, D., Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Hunte, K., & Persaud, M. (2023, August 5). OGGN requests the GoG to secure and publish the production machinery stress test certificates. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/08/05/opinion/letters/oggn-requests-the-gog-to-secure-and-publish-the-production-machinery-stress-test-certificates/

Bulkan, J. (2023, August 4). The Demerara channel high pressure water injection will muddy traditional fishing grounds. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/08/04/opinion/letters/the-demerara-channel-high-pressure-water-injection-will-muddy-traditional-fishing-grounds/

Bulkan, J. (2023, August 1). Gov’t should use authority of mining law and Article 36 of Constitution to immediately remove the illegal Chinese Landing miners. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/08/01/opinion/letters/govt-should-use-authority-of-mining-law-and-article-36-of-constitution-to-immediately-remove-the-illegal-chinese-landing-miners/

Bulkan, J. (2023, July 29). The independent press should not confuse party statements with government pronouncements. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/07/29/opinion/letters/the-independent-press-should-not-confuse-party-statements-with-government-pronouncements/

Bulkan, J. (2023, July 15). ExxonMobil and other carpetbaggers will leave behind a degraded Atlantic Ocean and diminished marine life. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/07/15/opinion/letters/exxonmobil-and-other-carpetbaggers-will-leave-behind-a-degraded-atlantic-ocean-and-diminished-marine-life/

Bulkan, J. (2023, July 8). A consultation by govt staff in an Amerindian Village is not the same as a vote at a Village Meeting. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/07/08/opinion/letters/a-consultation-by-govt-staff-in-an-amerindian-village-is-not-the-same-as-a-vote-at-a-village-meeting/

Bulkan, J. (2023, July 5). I repeat that the sale by the gov’t of carbon credits was fraudulent. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/07/05/opinion/letters/i-repeat-that-the-sale-by-the-govt-of-carbon-credits-was-fraudulent/

Bulkan, J. (2023, July 3). The sale of forest-based carbon credits by the government of Guyana was fraudulent. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/07/03/opinion/letters/the-sale-of-forest-based-carbon-credits-by-the-government-of-guyana-was-fraudulent/

Bulkan, J., Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Cole, N., Collins, F., Souza, K. de, Dow, J., Movement, T. G., Khusial, D., Klautky, C., Lancaster, R., Radzik, D., Radzik, V., Ramdas, G., Thread, R., Samwaroo, C., Sarabo, I., & Whitehead, J. (2023, June 22). It should be obvious that two weeks of public consultation on the new draft oil law is grossly inadequate. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/06/22/opinion/letters/it-should-be-obvious-that-two-weeks-of-public-consultation-on-the-new-draft-oil-law-is-grossly-inadequate/

Bulkan, J. (2023, June 15). Polluter pays principle; transboundary responsibility. Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/06/15/polluter-pays-principle-transboundary-responsibility/

Bulkan, J. (2023, June 15). Transboundary responsibility of the sovereign state. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/06/15/opinion/letters/transboundary-responsibility-of-the-sovereign-state/

Bulkan, J. (2023, June 13). Complete liability coverage for oil spills to indemnify our Caribbean Island neighbours. Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/06/13/797236/

Bulkan, J. (2023, June 13). Compensatory claims by our Caribbean island friends for oiled beaches would bankrupt Guyana. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/06/13/opinion/letters/compensatory-claims-by-our-caribbean-island-friends-for-oiled-beaches-would-bankrupt-guyana/

Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Khusial, D., Sugrim, C., Persaud, J., & Persaud, M. (2023, May 28). We urge ExxonMobil shareholders to vote in favour of resolution #14 on environment-related litigation. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/05/28/opinion/letters/we-urge-exxonmobil-shareholders-to-vote-in-favour-of-resolution-14-on-environment-related-litigation/

Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Khusial, D., Sugrim, C., & Persaud, M. (2023, May 26). ExxonMobil argues that shareholders should reject resolution #10 because it contains dubious claims. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/05/26/opinion/letters/exxonmobil-argues-that-shareholders-should-reject-resolution-10-because-it-contains-dubious-claims/

Bulkan, J., Radzik, D., Radzik, V., Bhulai, A., Deane-Hughes, E., O’Connell, A., Telford, M., Samwaroo, C., Souza, K. de, White, W., Marcus, J., Collymore, S., Ross, V., Khan, H., Thread, R., Bacchus-Hinds, S., Casimero, I., Klautky, C., Cole, N., … Thomas, T. (2023, May 25). We demand a parent company guarantee from Exxon. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/05/25/opinion/letters/we-demand-a-parent-company-guarantee-from-exxon/

Bulkan, J. (2023, May 25). Recall all dorms construction bids and revise to exclude inflammable materials. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/05/25/opinion/letters/recall-all-dorms-construction-bids-and-revise-to-exclude-inflammable-materials/

Adams, V., Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., & Khusial, D. (2023, May 1). Government must publish international safety certificates for the overproduction. Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/05/01/government-must-publish-international-safety-certificates-for-the-overproduction/

Bulkan, J. (2023, April 24). Legal consent to cede Amerindian village resources can only be given by individual villages. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/04/24/opinion/letters/legal-consent-to-cede-amerindian-village-resources-can-only-be-given-by-individual-villages/

Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Khusial, D., Ramdas, G., Persaud, M., & Persaud, J. (2023, April 23). We condemn this verbal attack on Tamica Garnett. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/04/23/opinion/letters/we-condemn-this-verbal-attack-on-tamica-garnett/

Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Khusial, D., Persaud, J., Persaud, M., & Ramdas, G. (2023, April 20). We ask our women parliamentarians to stand with female journalists. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/04/20/opinion/letters/we-ask-our-women-parliamentarians-to-stand-with-female-journalists/

Adams, V., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Collins, F., Khusial, D., Persaud, M., Ramdas, G., & Persaud, J. (2023, April 16). OGGN and TIGI deplore attacks on female journalists. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/04/16/opinion/letters/oggn-and-tigi-deplore-attacks-on-female-journalists/

Bhulai, A., Brandli, A., Bulkan, J., Khusial, D., & Persaud, J. (2023, April 11). Mystery in reconciling tax exemptions to oil companies in 2021. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/04/11/opinion/letters/mystery-in-reconciling-tax-exemptions-to-oil-companies-in-2021/

Bulkan, J. (2023, March 31). Questions for Guyana’s Office of Climate Change on carbon credits. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/03/31/opinion/letters/questions-for-guyanas-office-of-climate-change-on-carbon-credits/

Bulkan, J. (2023, February 19). Gov’t now appears to be making Amerindian communities accomplices in this carbon credits illegality. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/02/19/opinion/letters/govt-now-appears-to-be-making-amerindian-communities-accomplices-in-this-carbon-credits-illegality/

Bulkan, J. (2023, January 11). Core issue is that vast amounts of money are being discussed which may involve loss of control by Amerindian titled Villages over their forests. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/01/11/opinion/letters/core-issue-is-that-vast-amounts-of-money-are-being-discussed-which-may-involve-loss-of-control-by-amerindian-titled-villages-over-their-forests/

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘The Amerindian Act is quite clear about whose responsibilities it is to manage titled Amerindian Village Lands’, Stabroek News, 25 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/25/opinion/letters/the-amerindian-act-is-quite-clear-about-whose-responsibilities-it-is-to-manage-titled-amerindian-village-lands/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘The range of tenures (property rights) that underlie the jurisdictional carbon credits sold by Guyana to oil company Hess Corporation’, Stabroek News, 15 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/15/features/the-range-of-tenures-property-rights-that-underlie-the-jurisdictional-carbon-credits-sold-by-guyana-to-oil-company-hess-corporation/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Gov’t and its partner Winrock have illegally arrogated to themselves the rights vested solely in Amerindian land title holders’, Stabroek News, 13 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/13/opinion/letters/govt-and-its-partner-winrock-have-illegally-arrogated-to-themselves-the-rights-vested-solely-in-amerindian-land-title-holders/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits’, Stabroek News, 13 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/13/features/jurisdictional-forest-based-carbon-credits/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘NTC must explain legal basis of their endorsement of government’s move to make decisions over Indigenous titled lands’, Stabroek News, 8 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/08/opinion/letters/ntc-must-explain-legal-basis-of-their-endorsement-of-governments-move-to-make-decisions-over-indigenous-titled-lands/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Dumping mud on our livelihoods to enrich Exxon and partners’, Stabroek News, 20 July. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/07/20/opinion/letters/dumping-mud-on-our-livelihoods-to-enrich-exxon-and-partners/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Enormous amount of mud will be dumped on the Demerara fishing grounds’, Stabroek News, 11 July. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/07/11/opinion/letters/enormous-amount-of-mud-will-be-dumped-on-the-demerara-fishing-grounds/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Will the fishermen of Demerara be happy with so much glorious mud?’, Kaieteur News, 11 July. Available at: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2022/07/11/will-the-fishermen-of-demerara-be-happy-with-so-much-glorious-mud/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Why is there no EIA for the dredging of the Demerara Ship Channel?’, Stabroek News, 8 July. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/07/08/opinion/letters/why-is-there-no-eia-for-the-dredging-of-the-demerara-ship-channel/.

Bulkan, J. (2022). Exxon Mobil’s Dumping Of Hazardous Waste Daily In Guyana? News Americas, 25 March 2022. Available from: https://www.newsamericasnow.com/guyana-oil-exxon-mobil-dumping-of-hazardous-waste-daily-in-guyana/.

Bulkan, J. (2022). Questions about ExxonMobil’s dumping of waste at Haags Bosch. Stabroek News, 21 March 2022. Available from: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/03/21/opinion/letters/questions-about-exxonmobils-dumping-of-waste-at-haags-bosch/.

Bulkan, J. (2022). Citizens demand full debate on Patterson’s oil spill insurance motion. Kaieteur News, 19 March 2022. Available from: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2022/03/19/citizens-demand-full-debate-on-pattersons-oil-spill-insurance-motion/.

Bulkan, J. (2022). I suggest the Speaker may be acting outside his remit on MP Patterson’s Motion. Stabroek News, 19 March 2022. Available from: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/03/19/opinion/letters/i-suggest-the-speaker-may-be-acting-outside-his-remit-on-mp-pattersons-motion/.

Bulkan, J. (2022). PPP/C leadership should re-read its 2020 election manifesto. Stabroek News, 7 March 2022. Available from: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/03/07/opinion/letters/ppp-c-leadership-should-re-read-its-2020-election-manifesto/.

Bulkan, J. (2022, January 1). Which of the 24 Santiago Principles is matched by which numbered Article in the Natural Resource Fund Act 2021? Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/01/01/opinion/letters/which-of-the-24-santiago-principles-is-matched-by-which-numbered-article-in-the-natural-resource-fund-act-2021/

Bulkan, J. and Palmer, J. (2022) ‘Queries about the purchase by Hess Corporation of jurisdictional carbon credits from the Government of Guyana’, Oil and Gas Governance Network, 15 December. Available at: https://www.oggn.org/2022/12/16/queries-about-the-purchase-by-hess-corporation-of-jurisdictional-carbon-credits-from-the-government-of-guyana/ .

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘The range of tenures (property rights) that underlie the jurisdictional carbon credits sold by Guyana to oil company Hess Corporation’, Stabroek News, 15 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/15/features/the-range-of-tenures-property-rights-that-underlie-the-jurisdictional-carbon-credits-sold-by-guyana-to-oil-company-hess-corporation/.

Bulkan, J. (2022) ‘Jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits’, Stabroek News, 13 December. Available at: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/12/13/features/jurisdictional-forest-based-carbon-credits/.

Bulkan, J. (2021, December 15). Submission to the Environmental Protection Agency, Guyana, on the EIA drafted by ERM for EEPGL in respect of the Yellowtail oil field, Guyana. http://www.oggn.website/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bulkan-EPA-Yellowtail-Submission-20211215-1.pdf

Simone Mangal-Joly, Alfred Bhulai, Vanda Radzik, Janette Bulkan, Danuta Radzik, Jerry Jailall, Alissa Trotz, M. T. (2021, December 13). ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail Environmental Impact Assessment: Still awaiting answers. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/12/13/features/in-the-diaspora/exxonmobils-yellowtail-environmental-impact-assessment-still-awaiting-answers/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 26). Local shortages are the consequence of the unsustainable harvesting of Guyana’s best timber. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/11/26/opinion/letters/local-shortages-are-the-consequence-of-the-unsustainable-harvesting-of-guyanas-best-timber/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 7). Cabinet’s hydro project ‘no objection’ may be ill-advised. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/11/07/opinion/letters/cabinets-hydro-project-no-objection-may-be-ill-advised/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 7). Amaila Falls hydropower dam – cautions, including problems, abound. Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2021/11/07/amaila-falls-hydropower-dam-cautions-including-problems-abound/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 5). Exxon must be made to carry full comprehensive insurance coverage. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/11/05/opinion/letters/exxon-must-be-made-to-carry-full-comprehensive-insurance-coverage/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 5). Liza versus Macondo – a high risk for Guyana. Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2021/11/05/liza-versus-macondo-a-high-risk-for-guyana/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 3). Our regulatory agencies should carry out their mandates without any interference. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/11/03/opinion/letters/our-regulatory-agencies-should-carry-out-their-mandates-without-any-interference/

Bulkan, J. (2021, November 3). Dr. Janet Bulkan elaborates on her position about offshore and onshore oil dangers. Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2021/11/03/dr-janet-bulkan-elaborates-on-her-position-about-offshore-and-onshore-oil-dangers/

Bulkan, J. (2021, October 24). Guyana as dumpsite for petroleum wastes…At the end of the commodity chain. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/10/24/news/guyana/guyana-as-dumpsite-for-petroleum-wastes/

Bulkan, J. (2021, October 17). The case of GOES in Coverden: What do we value as the oil and gas juggernaut rolls on? Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/10/17/news/guyana/the-case-of-goes-in-coverden/

Bulkan, J. (2021, October 10). Takeaways from Environmental Assessment Board’s ‘public hearing’ on Vista Trading impact study waiver. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/10/10/news/guyana/takeaways-from-environmental-assessment-boards-public-hearing-on-vista-trading-impact-study-waiver/

Bulkan, J. (2021, August 27). Natural Resources Ministry needs to explain “50 mmscfd of associated gas.” Kaieteur News. https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2021/08/27/natural-resources-ministry-needs-to-explain-50-mmscfd-of-associated-gas/

Bulkan, J. (2021, August 4). Proposed gas-to-shore pipeline for 50 million standard cubic feet per day appears to be not viable. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/08/04/opinion/letters/proposed-gas-to-shore-pipeline-for-50-million-standard-cubic-feet-per-day-appears-to-be-not-viable/

Alfred Bhulai, Janette Bulkan, Jocelyn Dow, Danuta Radzik, Vanda Radzik, Troy Thomas, M. T. (2021, August 2). Gas to Energy Project: Let us practice our constitutional and democratic duty. Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/08/02/features/in-the-diaspora/gas-to-energy-project-let-us-practice-our-constitutional-and-democratic-duty/

Bhulai, A., Bulkan, J., Dow, J., Radzik, D., Radzik, V., Thomas, T., & Trotz, M. (2021, July 20). The Gas to Energy Project: More questions than answers? Stabroek News. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/07/20/features/in-the-diaspora/the-gas-to-energy-project-more-questions-than-answers/

Bulkan, J., & Thomas-Caesar, R. S. (2021). COVID-19: Impact on Guyana and its Indigenous Peoples. COVID-19 Reports on Latin America and the Caribbean, No. 39. Monitoring COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. https://lawlibrariansmonitoringcovid19.com/2021/02/25/impact-on-guyana-and-its-indigenous-population/

Bulkan, J., & Wyatt, S. (2021). Indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices, public policy, multi-jurisdictional governance. IUFRO News, Vol. 50. https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7285#c33087

Bulkan, Janette. (2020, March 22). The current impasse on the March 2 elections must end. Stabroek News. Retrieved from https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/03/22/opinion/letters/the-current-impasse-on-the-march-2-elections-must-end/

Bulkan, Janette. (2020, March 11). Kudos to Shuman for asserting traditional rights. Stabroek News. Retrieved from https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/03/11/opinion/letters/kudos-to-shuman-for-asserting-traditional-rights/

Bulkan, J. (2017). Expert statement of Janette Bulkan submitted in support of Akawaio Indigenous Community of Isseneru (Petitioners) in the case MC-283-13/Petition 1424-13, Akawaio Indigenous Community of Isseneru, 19 November 2017, Annex 1, pp. 19. Washington, DC: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. (2017, November). Mahaica Dawn. Offtrack. Caribbean Beat.

Bulkan, J. (2017, August 18). (Under) valuing resources of Guyana. Kaieteur News. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J. (2017, January 4). GFC and Natural Resources Ministry are encouraging small loggers to fell unsustainably. Stabroek News. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J., Larson, B., LeMay, V., Halperin, J., & Lyons, K. (2016). Visualizing forest management and forestry practices through blended learning. 2016 TLEF Showcase. Poster. 5 May. Vancouver: UBC.

Bulkan, J. (2016, December 11). How does the intention of wasteful logging match the President’s hopes for a Green Economy? Stabroek News. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J. (2016, October 27). The GFC may be breaking its own Forests Act, 2009. Kaieteur News. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J. (2016, October 25). Guyana ignoring National Forest Policy and National Forest Plan. Kaieteur News. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J. (2016, October 12). GMSA does not seem to understand that demonstration of greenheart compliance is at forest level, not country level. Stabroek News. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J. (2016, October 11). Sustainable management of Guyana’s greenheart timber. Guyana Chronicle. Georgetown.

Bulkan, J. (2016). What would you be teaching or researching in 100 years? TREK Alumni UBC, 39, 9.

Bulkan, J. (2014). Untangling Christmas lights: crafting a vision for BC’s coastal forests. Branchlines 25(2), 24–25.

Bulkan, J., & Nelson, H. (2014). Report on an international research roundtable. Donning the regalia: maintaining tradition in an age of modernity, December 8-11, 2014. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC.

Bulkan, J. (2011 to 2015). News from Guyana: 15 columns on forest-related news published in the quarterly Commonwealth Forestry Association. CFA Newsletter, March 2011 to March 2015. 31 pp. http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/04/26/news-from-guyana-two-articles-about-guyana-by-janette-bulkan-in-the-commonwealth-forestry-association-newsletter/

Bulkan, J., Courtois, V., Joseph, L., & Young, B. (2012, September). Canadian First Nations elect forestry representatives to advise FSC. CFA Newsletter, 58, 1–2.

Bulkan, J., & Palmer, J. R. (2007). Lazy days at international banks: how Credit Suisse and HSBC support illegal logging and unsustainable timber harvesting by Samling/Barama in Guyana, and possible reforms. Report to Chatham House (Royal Institution for International Affairs) FLEGT update. London. 20 pp.

Palmer, J. R., & Bulkan, J. (2007). New colonial masters, Malaysian loggers in South America: how under-valuation of forest resources exposes Guyana to unscrupulous exploitation. CFA Newsletter, 38, 1–2, 11–13.

Mangal, S., & J. Forte. (2005). Community tradeoffs assessment: for culture-sensitive planning and evaluation. Written in collaboration with the North Rupununi District Development Board, Guyana. London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). 54 pp.

Wilson, W., Milner, J., Bulkan, J. (2006). Duration of exclusive breastfeeding and its relationship to childhood mortality among the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana. Abstract. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129 (Supplement 42), 189.

Wilson, W. and Bulkan, J. (2004). Anthropometric indices of nutritional status in Guyanese Makushi Amerindians. Abstract. American Journal of Human Biology 16(2), 229.

Wilson, Warren and Bulkan, J. (2004). Anthropometric indices of nutritional status in Guyanese Makushi Amerindians. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Human Biologists, Tampa, Florida, April 13 2004.

Bulkan, J. (2004). Reply to Niesten and Rice’s Comment. International Forestry Review, 6(1), 61–63, 65–66.

Bulkan, J. (2004, December). Report on Yale symposium on impacts of certification in developing and transitioning countries, June 10-11, 2004. CFA News, 27, 11–12.

Wilson, W., Piperata, B., Forte, J. (2001). Birth Order and Growth Among Makushi Indians of Guyana. Abstract. American Journal of Human Biology 13(1), 145-146.

Wilson, W., Piperata, B. and Forte, J. (2001). Birth order and growth among Makushi Indians of Guyana. Poster presented at the American Association for Human Biology, Kansas City, Missouri, 28 March l2001.

Forte, J. Ed. (2001). Iwokramî pantoni. Stories about Iwokrama. Georgetown: North Rupununi District Development Board and Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development. 22 pp.

Forte, J. Ed. (2000). Moro’yami’ Raponani kawonkon. Fishes of the North Rupununi District. Georgetown: Makushi Research Unit, North Rupununi District Development Board. 14 pp.

Forte, J. Ed. (1999). Toronyamî Raponani ponkon. Birds of the North Rupununi District. Georgetown: Makushi Research Unit, North Rupununi District Development Board. 14 pp.

Forte, J. Ed. (1999). Kîse ipukku yare wanî. Cassava, our staple food. Georgetown: Makushi Research Unit, North Rupununi District Development Board. 14 pp.

North Rupununi District Development Board, & Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development. (1999). Community-based wildlife management in the North Rupununi. (J. Forte, M. Janki, & G. Watkins, Eds.). Georgetown: Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development. 49 pp.

Forte, J. Ed. (1998). Prantina yenyakamato Makusiyamî ya eseru. Alcohol use in Makushi culture. Georgetown: Makushi Research Unit, North Rupununi District Development Board. 30 pp.

Plew, M., & Forte, J. Eds. (1998). A bibliography of Guyana anthropology. Boise: Boise State University.

Forte, J. Ed. (1996). The Fanshawe/Boyan glossary of Arawak names in natural history. Georgetown: University of Guyana. ISBN 976-624-003-5. 68 pp.

Forte, J., & Makushi Research Unit. (1996). Makusipe komanto iseru: sustaining Makushi way of life. Georgetown: North Rupununi District Development Board. ISBN 976-8160-48-9. 290 pp.

Forte, J. (1996). About Guyanese Amerindians. Georgetown: Demerara Publishers Ltd. 130 pp.

Forte, J. (1996). Thinking about Amerindians. Georgetown: Demerara Publishers Ltd. ISBN 976-8136-91-X. 113 pp.

Forte, J., & Melville, I. (1989). Amerindian Testimonies. Boise: Boise State University. ISBN 976-8087-xx-x. 245 pp.

Forte, J. Ed. (1995). Situation analysis. Indigenous use of the forest, with emphasis on Region 1. Georgetown: University of Guyana.

Forte, J. (1995). A selective reading list on Guyanese Amerindians. (Occasional Publications of the Amerindian Research Unit.). Georgetown: University of Guyana.

Forte, J., & Pierre, L. (1994). Baseline information on Amerindian communities in Region 9. Report produced for the Guyana Organisation of Indigenous Peoples. (Occasional Papers of the Amerindian Research Unit). Georgetown: University of Guyana. 62 pp.

Forte, J., & Benjamin, A. (1993). The road from Roraima State. Georgetown. 31 pp.

Forte, J. (1993). Situation analysis of the status of children and women in the Guyana Amazon. Report commissioned by UNICEF. Georgetown: University of Guyana. 168 pp.

Forte, J., Pierre, L., & Fox, D. (1992). The material culture of the Wapishana of the South Rupununi savannahs in 1989 (Occasional Publications of the Amerindian Research Unit). Georgetown: University of Guyana. 92 pp.

Forte, J. (1990). The populations of Guyanese Amerindian settlements in the 1980s. (Occasional Publications of the Amerindian Research Unit.). Georgetown: University of Guyana.

Forte, J. (1990). A preliminary assessment of the road to Brazil. Georgetown. 29 pp.

Forte, J. (1990). Book review. Sojourners of the Caribbean: Ethnogenesis and ethnohistory of the Garifuna by Nancie L. Solien Gonzalez (1988). New West Indian Guide, 64(3/4), 165–168.

Forte, J. (1987). Book review. Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation by Peter G. Rivière, 1984. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 51. New West Indian Guide, 61(1/2), 75–78.