This study synthesizes findings from studies of the social and behavioral outcomes of
collective payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs. The collective PES model is …

Forest certifications (FCs) and community forest management (CFM) are two major forest
governance interventions whose aim is to reverse forest degradation and deforestation …

Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems depends on adaptive institutions. Efforts
to understand the factors affecting adaptive institutions have identified many variables, but …

The international research on the benefits of community-based natural resource
management (CBNRM) regimes for sustainable development has raised concerns about the …

Policy makers around the world tout decentralization as an effective tool in the governance
of natural resources. Despite the popularity of these reforms, there is limited scientific …

Under what conditions does environmental non-governmental (NGO) advocacy affect
environmental outcomes? We build on earlier theoretical work and contend that the …

Concerned with the challenges of sustainable development, policy makers and scholars
often urge nongovernmental organizations to increase their efforts to support governance of …

Community forestry literature promotes the idea that self-governance and self-organization
lead to successful forest governance. However, this assumption marginalizes the different …

The government of Indonesia continues to commit to social forestry as one of its cornerstone
rural development policies. Social forestry mechanisms aim to grant legal rights/permits to …

This article examines how Payments for Environmental Services (PES) influence household
land-use behavior in the context of common-property lands. PES programs have been …