Agroforestry systems: helping smallholders adapt to climate risks while mitigating climate change

RD Lasco, RJP Delfino… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing interest to combine adaptation and mitigation measures that provide win–
win solutions to climate change. Agroforestry systems offer compelling synergies between …

Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands

LC Stringer, AJ Dougill, AD Thomas… - Environmental science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Changes in land use and management practices to store and sequester carbon are
becoming integral to global efforts that both address climate change and alleviate poverty …

Tradeoffs in carbon commodification: A political ecology of common property forest governance

T Osborne - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
Carbon markets have gained traction worldwide as an ostensibly win–win solution to climate
change, providing low-cost emission reductions in the Global North and sustainable …

Use and misuse of the net present value in environmental studies

T Knoke, E Gosling, C Paul - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental studies regularly use the net present value (NPV) to value benefits and costs
of projects. However, the NPV disregards whether the stream of net benefits is steady or …

Determinants of the environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs

O Ola, L Menapace, E Benjamin, H Lang - Ecosystem services, 2019 - Elsevier
Observed trade-offs between environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives
continue to divide scholars on the ability of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs …

Does carbon reduction and sequestration conflict with food security in rural China?—What, why and how?

D Hao, R Xu, B Du, J Yang, W Liu - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on panel data of 31 provinces in rural China from 1997 to 2020, this manuscript first
applies a carbon reduction and sequestration (CRS) model from the perspective of …

REDD+ and rural livelihoods

B Groom, C Palmer - Biological conservation, 2012 - Elsevier
Focusing on incentive schemes that induce participation in land-use activities to supply
environmental services, this paper examines the potential impacts of REDD+ on livelihoods …

Experiences of host communities with carbon market projects: towards multi-level climate justice

VN Mathur, S Afionis, J Paavola, AJ Dougill… - Climate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The literature on equity and justice in climate change mitigation has largely focused on
North–South relations and equity between states. However, some initiatives (eg the Clean …

Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands

AJ Dougill, LC Stringer, J Leventon… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate finance investments and international policy are driving new community-based
projects incorporating payments for ecosystem services (PES) to simultaneously store …

Reducing poverty through carbon forestry? Impacts of the N'hambita community carbon project in Mozambique

R Jindal, JM Kerr, S Carter - World development, 2012 - Elsevier
Debates about the potential poverty alleviation impacts of global carbon markets are far from
settled. We extend this debate by examining the impacts of a project in Mozambique that …