Biodiversity conservation has increasingly gained recognition in national and international
agendas. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has positioned biodiversity as a key …

This review paper is designed to demonstrate how community forestry has played an
important role in the livelihood improvement of poor people in the rural areas of Nepal. The …

Community participation in an environmental corporate social responsibility (CSR) project
can help business enterprises effectively develop projects that respond to the actual …

Devolution of resource management access rights, from the state to local communities, has
been an important policy tool in Nepal over the last two decades. One of the major goals of …

Community-based Forestry (CBF) is now a popular approach for landscape restoration,
forest management, biodiversity conservation and support for rural livelihoods worldwide …

Previously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development
paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social …

Traditional and local knowledge (TLK) can be instrumental in mitigating the risks of
disasters. There are calls to prioritize such knowledge to promote community resilience …

Despite recognition of forests' roles in rural livelihoods, there has been relatively little
empirical exploration of community forestry's contribution to poverty alleviation. Similarly …

Community based forest management in Nepal has been widely acclaimed as the most
successful approach for participatory forest management and its governance. So far, about …

The REDD+ policy proposes to deliver multiple outcomes including emissions reduction,
livelihood support and sustainable forest management, and thus appears largely compatible …