The prospective introduction of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhancement of carbon stoc...

Authors: Gebara, M.F.;Fatorelli, L.;May, P.;Zhang, S.

Background

Property rights to natural resources comprise a major policy instrument for those seeking to advance sust...

Authors: Ojanen, M.;Miller, D.C.;Zhou, W.;Mshale, B.;Mwangi, E.;Petrokofsky, G.

In environmental policy, good governance is pertinent when inclusive decision making is recurrently associated with effective outc...

Authors: Yang, A.L.;Rounsevell, M.D.;Haggett, C.;Wilson, R.M.

Using the net anthropogenic nitrogen input (NANI) approach we estimated the N budget for the Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa. T...

Authors: Zhou, M.;Brandt, P.;Pelster, D.;Rufino, M.C.;Robinson, T.;Butterbach-Bahl, K.

Livestock is poorly represented in N budgets for the African continent although some studies have examined livestock-related N flo...

Authors: Rufino, M.C.;Brandt, P.;Herrero, M.;Butterbach-Bahl, K.

The definition and underpinning economic theory of market-based instruments (MBIs) for ecosystem services (ES) are yet unsettled m...

Authors: Pirard, R.;Lapeyre, R.

In northern Cameroon like in all Sudano-Sahelian regions, women have very few rights to trees, although they are key users of tree...

Authors: Gautier, D.;van Santen, J.

Policy making is often neither rational nor solution-oriented, but driven by negotiations of interests of multiple actors that inc...

Authors: Brockhaus, M.;Di Gregorio, M.;Carmenta, R.

Payment for ecosystem services (PESs) is part of a new and more direct conservation and management paradigm explicitly recognizing...

Authors: Bhatta, L.D.;Oort, B.E.H van.;Rucevska, I.;Baral, H.

Biomass is a key environmental variable that influences many biosphere–atmosphere interactions. Recently, a number of biomass map...

Authors: Yong, G.;Avitabile, V.;Heuvelink, G. B. M.;Wang, J.;Herold, M.