Over the past two decades, sets of timber harvesting guidelines designed to mitigate the
deleterious environmental impacts of tree felling, yarding, and hauling have become known …

In this review paper, we assess the economical, governance, and technical conditions that
shape forest management in tropical Latin America with particular regard to efforts to reduce …

More than two decades ago, Schlager and Ostrom (1992) developed 'a conceptual schema
for arraying property-rights regimes that distinguishes among diverse bundles of rights'. The …

State-controlled protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies globally, yet
their performance relative to other governance regimes is rarely assessed comprehensively …

Tropical forest habitat continues to decline globally, with serious negative consequences for
environmental sustainability. The small mountain country of Nepal provides an excellent …

Using community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals Page 227 Chapter 16 Using
community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals Arun Agrawal and Arild Angelsen • …

Responding to multiple problems affecting governance of natural resource access and
trade, governments implement formalization processes, often driven by the interests of …

Abstract The Peruvian Amazon is an important arena in global efforts to promote sustainable
logging in the tropics. Despite recent efforts to achieve sustainability, such as provisions in …

Throughout human history, slow-renewal biological resource populations have been
predictably overexploited, often to the point of economic extinction. We assess whether and …

Commitments to curb illegal logging and deforestation have proliferated in recent years with
the increase of global trade in tropical timber and wood products. While they reflect …