Limiting climate warming to< 2° C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land
stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the …

Huge tracts of tropical forest are selectively logged. Meanwhile, emerging global agendas
are providing unprecedented incentives for large‐scale restoration within human‐impacted …

More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them
threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity …

Abstract In 2006, the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) started an ambitious program to
establish forest concessions so as to provide a legal framework for long-term sustainable …

What is meant by sustainability depends on what is sustained and at what level. Sustainable
forest management, for example, requires maintenance of a variety of values not the least of …

Jurisdictional approaches to REDD+ have received less attention than project-based
REDD+ activities, yet they are needed for the successful implementation of REDD+ at the …

To illustrate the importance of theories-of-change (ToCs) for evaluation of conservation
interventions, we consider the global ToC from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and …

Logging has depleted timber resources across a considerable portion of the world's tropical
forests, leaving them vulnerable to conversion to other land‐use types. This raises the …

Demand for tropical timber is expected to rise due to an increased global need for
sustainable renewable materials. However, sustainable tropical timber production remains a …

Global timber demands have penetrated vast tracts of tropical rainforest, with selective
logging the most powerful driver of human disturbance within these ecosystems. We review …