Political responses to global deforestation, as a defining characteristic of the so-called
Anthropocene, are a key field for scholarship and policy analysis. In the past decade …

Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South
have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around …

Joint Forest Management (JFM), embracing the philosophy of forest conservation and
livelihood improvement through cooperation between state and civil society, has emerged …

Participatory forest management (PFM) is being promoted throughout Tanzania as a means
of achieving conservation and improving livelihoods. This paper presents the results of a …

Community-based forest management systems (CBFMS) are becoming increasingly popular
in developing countries where 31% of the total forest is either managed or owned by the …

Since 2005, there has been considerable international interest in Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a program intended to finance protection of …

Decentralization in natural resource management (NRM) is increasingly promoted as it is
believed to offer better management. This study explores the positive and negative aspects …

It is well known that in many rural communities in the developing world, forests, particularly
those under community management, are important for people's livelihoods. However …

Page 1 WORKING PAPER Lessons for REDD+ from measures to control illegal logging in
Indonesia Cecilia Luttrell Krystof Obidzinski Maria Brockhaus Efrian Muharrom Elena …

Balancing interests to achieve legitimate and effective policies is a primary and pressing
challenge in countries' efforts to prepare their national reducing emissions from …