While community forestry has shown promise to reduce rural poverty, improve reforestation
and potentially offset carbon emissions, many projects have failed, either partly or …

Forming 16 percent of the global population and growing, the large numbers of youth
particularly in the developing world presents both a challenge and an opportunity. Although …

Numerous authors have stressed the importance of guaranteeing and protecting the tenure
and human rights of indigenous and other forest-based communities under schemes for …

Tropical forests in Indonesia are subject to major transformation processes from native
forests to other land uses, including rubber agroforestry as well as rubber and oil palm …

The new climate change mitigation scheme for developing countries known as Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has been proposed as a …

A multi-functionality framework is used to critically evaluate rural and eco-tourism in the
Central Amazon. This part of the region is shown to have the best potential for both …

Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation, sustainable
management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) has been one of …

In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy, Julia Dehm
provides a critical analysis of how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest …

Because of inadequacies and often dismal outcomes associated with state-centric forest
management, devolution of forest tenure rights to communities is suggested for achieving …

Community Forestry has been identified as a secure, profitable, and equitable strategy to
reach the dual goal of forest conservation and poverty alleviation. This research contributes …