Forests have re-taken centre stage in global conversations about sustainability, climate and
biodiversity. Here, we use a horizon scanning approach to identify five large-scale trends …

While scholars and policy makers have increasingly focused on transnational labour
migration (TLM) in Asia, few comparative studies have analysed how TLM shapes poverty …

Community forest management (CFM) has been promoted for decades as a way to merge
environmental conservation with economic development and natural resource rights …

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

Since the 1980's, decentralized forest management has been promoted as a way to
enhance sustainable forest use and reduce rural poverty. Rural communities manage …

The awareness of the need for robust impact evaluations in conservation is growing and
statistical matching techniques are increasingly being used to assess the impacts of …

Solutions to poverty and ecosystem degradation are often framed as conflicting. We ask
whether Indonesia's national anti-poverty program, which transfers cash to hundreds of …

Nepal is going through a major socio-economic transition in rural areas and hence in forest
management practices, leading to changes in and evolution of new forest-people …

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 …

There is growing recognition of the potential of migration to contribute to climate-change
adaptation. Yet, there is limited evidence to what degree, under what conditions, for whom …