Ecosystem services (ES) are critical to human well-being, especially in developing countries. Improved understanding of the status...
Authors: Adhikari, S.;Baral, H.;Nitschke, C.R.
Articles
Governing sustainable palm oil supply: Disconnects, complementarities, and antagonisms between state regulations and private standards
Publication Year : 2018
The global palm oil value chain has grown in complexity; stakeholder relationships and linkages are increasingly shaped by new pub...
Authors: Pacheco, P.;Schoneveld, G.C.;Dermawan, A.;Komarudin, H.;Djama, M.
Carbon stocks of mangroves and salt marshes of the Amazon region, Brazil
Publication Year : 2018
In addition to the largest existing expanse of tropical forests, the Brazilian Amazon has among the largest area of mangroves in t...
Authors: Kauffman, J.B.;Bernardino, A.F.;Ferreira, T.O.;Giovannoni, L.R.;de O. Gomes, L.E.;Romero, D.J.;Zayas Jimenez, L.C.;Ruiz, F.
Inter-sectoral and multilevel coordination alone do not reduce deforestation and advance environmental justice: Why bold contestation works when collaboration fails
Publication Year : 2018
Policy makers, academics, and conservationists often posit that poor coordination between different land use sectors, and between ...
Authors: Ravikumar, A.;Larson, A.M.;Myers, R.;Trench, T.
Governing Forest Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Environmental Governance
Publication Year : 2018
Governing forest ecosystem services as a forest socio-ecological system is an evolving concept in the face of different environmen...
Authors: Adhikari, S.;Baral, H.
Greening the Dark Side of Chocolate: A Qualitative Assessment to Inform Sustainable Supply Chains
Publication Year : 2018
Despite the plethora of discourse about how sustainable development should be pursued, the production of agricultural commodities ...
Authors: Camargo, M.C.;Hogarth, N.J.;Pacheco, P.;Nhantumbo, I.;Kanninen, M.
Between structural change and local agency in the palm oil sector: Interactions, heterogeneities and landscape transformations in the Brazilian Amazon
Publication Year : 2018
Looking beyond a normative analysis of oil palm expansion, this paper offers a nuanced analysis of landscape transformations in th...
Authors: Brandão, F.;de Castro, F.;Futemma, C.
Mammal Depletion Processes as Evidenced From Spatially Explicit and Temporal Local Ecological Knowledge
Publication Year : 2018
In the face of increased defaunation in tropical regions, embracing the complexity of wildlife population trends is important to g...
Authors: Van Vliet, N.;Muhindo, J.;Nyumu, J.K.;Mushagalusa, O.;Nasi, R.
Screening Potential Bioenergy Production of Tree Species in Degraded and Marginal Land in the Tropics
Publication Year : 2018
Bioenergy can produce at least 25% of the global energy demand to combat climate change through reducing emissions in the energy s...
Authors: Borchard, N.;Bulusu, M.;Hartwig, A-M.;Ulrich, M.;Lee, S.M.;Baral, H.
Development of nuclear SNP markers for the timber tracking of the African tree species Sapelli, Entandrophragma cylindricum
Publication Year : 2018
We describe the development of new nuclear SNP markers for the genetic timber tracking of the geographical origin of Sapelli, Enta...
Authors: Blanc-Jolivet, C.;Kersten, B.;Bourland, N.;Guichoux, E.;Delcamp, A.;Doucet, J-L.;Degen, B.