Forest destruction for agriculture continues to be a major threat to the rich biological diversity
in the East Usambara Mountains in the northeastern corner of Tanzania. The highest ratio of …

In Cambodia there is an urgent need to ensure the livelihood of the forest-dependent rural
poor while at the same time sustaining valuable forest resources. As past centralized forest …

Drawing from a holistic research approach, this paper contributes to the studies of land
cover change and sustainable development in Kenya, and to the planning of sustainable …

Recognising the increasing pressure on the forest resource from agricultural expansion,
livestock grazing, fire, woodfuel extraction, and human settlements, the government of …

This article is concerned with the hypothesis that devolution, understood as entrusting local
government with significant domains of autonomous discretionary power, will lead to the …

Billions of Euros are spent each year on the highly contested subject of development
cooperation. Is it the right thing to do, and is it doing any good? It is assumed that carefully …

The study contributes to the studies of land cover change and sustainable development in
Kenya. It scrutinizes the land use and land cover change (LULCC) and deforestation; forest …

Desire for wealth is sweeping aside natural tropical forests. These forests cannot compete in
terms of revenue generated per unit area with other land uses. To avert the catastrophic …

The paper introduces an illustrative model, the 'house model', which contains a number of
key elements for constructing and sustaining people's participation in forest management …

The paper analyses the development towards Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) in the
forestry sector in Tanzania, Mozambique and Vietnam. The main research question is: does …