Annual early fire, selective tree cutting and exclusion of grazing are currently used as management tools in the Sudanian savanna ...

Authors: Zida, D.;Tigabu, M.;Sawadogo, L.;Tiveau, D.;Oden, P.C.

Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) have had limited success in addressing the often conflicting objectives o...

Authors: Sandker, M.;Campbell, B.M.;Nzooh, Z.;Sunderland, T.C.H.;Amougou, V.;Defo, L.;Sayer, J.A.

A new hypothesis suggests that forest cover plays a much greater role in determining rainfall than previously recognized. It expla...

Authors: Sheil, D.;Murdiyarso, D.

Decentralization in natural resource management (NRM) is increasingly promoted as it is believed to offer better management. This ...

Authors: Yasmi, Y.;Guernier, J.;Colfer, C.J.P.

Indonesia’s forestry sector is in a dilemma due to the long-standing disparity between high processing capacity of forest industr...

Authors: Obidzinski, K.;Chaudhury, M.

Governments in tropical countries are still responding to increasing forest degradation by implementing different types of protect...

Authors: Boissiere, M.;Sheil, D.;Basuki, I.;Wan, M.;Le, H.

La relación entre los bosques tropicales y el cambio climático global se ha centrado más en la mitigación, mientras que se ha ...

Authors: Guariguata, M.R.

The concept of payments for ecosystem services (PES) is probably the most promising innovation in conservation since Rio 1992, slo...

Authors: Wunder, S.;Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.

In situ conservation of tropical forests often requires restricting human use and occupancy within protected areas by enforcing re...

Authors: Gaveau, D.L.A.;Linkie, M.;Suyadi;Levang, P.;Leader-Williams, N.

Latin American experience with payments for watershed environmental services is examined in this article. Interest in the approach...

Authors: Southgate, D.;Wunder, S.