Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

Traditional approaches to reviewing literature may be susceptible to bias and result in
incorrect decisions. This is of particular concern when reviews address policy-and practice …

Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant taxa closely related to crops
and are a source of high genetic diversity that can help adapt crops to the impacts of global …

This article updates our previous comprehensive meta-analysis of what drives and stops
deforestation (Busch and Ferretti-Gallon). By including six additional years of research, this …

Mountains are critical ecosystems that have a strong influence far beyond their topographic
boundaries. More than 50 million people inhabit the Himalayas, and more than one billion …

Land abandonment is an important topic of discussion in many European countries but is
particularly relevant for Central and Eastern Europe. When analyzing this issue, a major …

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

This article presents a systematic review of scientific publications on the effects of payments
for ecosystem services (PES) schemes in Latin America (LA) from 2000–2020. A multi …

Socio-economic and technological drivers will strongly shape the future of the global timber
market, forest area and climate change mitigation potential, however impacts could vary …

Collective action plays a critical role in progressing efforts to protect the global environment.
In this study we examined existing research that specified causal claims about the outcomes …