To design viable strategies to implement sustainable forest management, tools are needed that allow the understanding and manageme...

Authors: Pokorny, B.;Schanz, H.

While slash-and burn farmers convert forest to agriculture, they also regenerate significant areas of secondary fallow forests on ...

Authors: Smith, J.;Ferreira, S.;van de Kop, P.;Ferreira, C. A. P.;Sabogal, C.

Despite efforts to establish protected areas around the world, the authority of government remains weak in forested areas. This pa...

Authors: Kaimowitz, D.;Faune, A.;Mendoza, R.

The Setulang community in Malinau, Indonesia has resisted offers of substantial sums of money from timber companies to gain access...

Authors: Iwan, R.

Community forestry has transformed over the past 25 years from being an experimental means of providing wood-fuel for the rural po...

Authors: Colchester, M.

This article describes opportunities to achieve both conservation and poverty alleviation goals. The goals, held by local, nationa...

Authors: Scherr, S.J.;White, A.;Kaimowitz, D.

Because the term non-timber forest products encompasses such a vast array of goods, various certification schemes are being applie...

Authors: Shanley, P.

Mahogany has become the flagship species in debates about the feasibility of sustainable forest management in the tropics. Communi...

Authors: Snook, L.K.

This paper evaluates the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the ...

Authors: Wollenberg, E.;Campbell, B.M.;Shackleton, S.;Edmunds, D.;Shanley, P.

The last decade has seen profound overhauls of governance in many tropical countries. Countries have adopted new economic policies...

Authors: de Jong, W.;Becker, M.;Ruiz, S.;Gottwald, C.