Local ecological knowledge and the land use practices of forest resource users who rely on
this form of knowledge play a crucial role for biodiversity conservation in managed forests …

Traditional knowledge has become a topic of considerable interest within the research and
development environment. The contribution of traditional knowledge to conservation and …

Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) are affected by global environmental
change because they directly rely on their immediate environment for meeting basic …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

With the increasing need to restore former agricultural lands worldwide and in the tropics, in
particular, it is critical to explore different models for how to restore these lands in a cost …

Swidden is an agroforestry system in which woody vegetation is regenerated after a period
of annual cropping. Associated with most forested areas of the tropical world, swidden is …

In coming years society will be forced to adapt to lower energy levels due to projected
declines in non-renewable energies. This will increase the challenge to ecological …

Reforestation in the tropics takes place across a wide variety of edaphic and climatic
conditions. Reforestation trials have demonstrated that edaphic conditions may have a …

Tropical forests provide a variety of goods and services to humanity. Although efforts to
protect and manage these forests have increased in recent decades, forest loss continues …

The impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and creation of formal Voluntary
Conserved Areas (VCAs) on local diets, agricultural practices, subsistence hunting and …