Payments for ecosystem services (PES) policies compensate individuals or communities for
undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water …

This chapter reviews the literature on natural resource decentralization with an emphasis on
forests in developing countries. This literature can be located at the intersection between …

While community forestry has shown promise to reduce rural poverty, improve reforestation
and potentially offset carbon emissions, many projects have failed, either partly or …

This article examines how indigenous ethnic minorities in Indonesia are being affected by
the implementation of decentralization and regional autonomy policies. New legislation …

Tropical forests are crucial in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but at the same
time, they are major sources of revenue and provide livelihoods for forest‐dependent …

Community forestry is a participatory approach aiming to achieve sustainable forest
management while also reducing poverty among rural communities. Yet, evidence of the …

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the
degree of ethnic fractionalization. To identify a causal relation, we exploit the exogenous …

Who benefits from community forestry and who gets left out? Soon after it emerged as a
significant trend in the global South in the 1980s, practitioners, advocates and scholars …

This paper examines the effects of forest devolution on the livelihoods of the rural poor. The
paper analyzes changes in forest endowments and entitlements among households brought …

Participatory forest management (PFM) is being promoted throughout Tanzania as a means
of achieving conservation and improving livelihoods. This paper presents the results of a …