As countries consider new area-based conservation targets under the Convention on
Biological Diversity, protected areas (PAs) and their impacts on people and nature are …

Human reactions to conservation interventions can trigger unintended feedbacks resulting in
poor conservation outcomes. Understanding unintended feedbacks is a necessary first step …

Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been
restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's …

Recent work in ecology suggests that the diversity of responses to environmental change
among species contributing to the same ecosystem function can strongly influence …

The resilience of natural resource management (NRM) institutions are largely contingent on
the capacities of the people and organizations within those institutions to learn, innovate …

In the developing world, traditional social networks of exchange and reciprocity are critical
components of household security, disaster relief, and social wellbeing especially in rural …

Crop foraging or crop raiding concerns wildlife foraging and farmers' reactions and
responses to it. To understand crop foraging and its value to wildlife or its implications for …

Quantifying local people's perceptions to climate change, and their assessments of which
changes matter, is fundamental to addressing the dual challenge of land conservation and …

The Simanjiro plains, east of Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania are a key
dispersal area for wildlife, and are of vital importance to Maasai pastoral livelihoods, which …

Robust ways to meet objectives of environmental conservation and social and economic
development remain elusive. This struggle may in part be related to insufficient …