The concept of ecosystem services is becoming increasingly influential in environmental
research and policy–reshaping human–environment interactions. In this paper, we trace the …

Highlights•Green initiatives have had negative social impacts and are contested.•The
physical and economic displacement of local people has been a major impact.•The human …

Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional
environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative …

This paper provides a survey of policy process theories and their usefulness in transitions
research. Some research has already used such theories, but often in an ad hoc and …

In the context of assessing drivers of deforestation and forest degradation (DD), for effective
implementation of REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) …

Environmental policy is crucial for defining the scope of conservation and development at
the local, national, and international level. Because of its broader framework for balancing …

Lowland tropical forests are increasingly threatened with conversion to oil palm as global
demand and high profit drives crop expansion throughout the world's tropical regions. Yet …

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is an expanding
global initiative oriented at slowing or reversing carbon emissions from forests in the Global …

The processes that lead to radical institutional change in environmental governance have
been theorised from various different perspectives. Six years ago an article published in …

Developing and institutionalizing cross-sectoral approaches to sustainable land use
remains a crucial, yet politically contested, objective in global sustainability governance …