By 2010, about 25% (180 million ha) of The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) producer countries\' permanent forest...

Authors: Cerutti, P.O.;Suryadarma, D.;Nasi, R.;Forni, E.;Medjibe, V.P.;Delion, S.;Bastin, D.

The authors examine whether high personal discount rates help explain why and which households in developing countries under-inves...

Authors: Atmadja, S.;Sills, E.O.;Pattanayak, S.K.;Yang, J.C.

Intensification of land use and management over recent decades has resulted in trade-offs between food or timber production and ot...

Authors: Locatelli, B.;Lavorel, S.;Sloan, S.;Tappeiner, U.;Geneletti, D.

Compensating forest users for the opportunity costs of foregoing deforestation and degradation was one of the original distinguish...

Authors: Ickowitz, A.;Sills, E.O.;de Sassi, C.

Wetlands are important providers of ecosystem services and key regulators of climate change. They positively contribute to global ...

Authors: Gumbricht, T.;Román-Cuesta, R.M.;Verchot, L.V.;Herold, M.;Wittmann, F.;Householder, E.;Herold, N.;Murdiyarso, D.

Land use directly impacts ecosystem carbon and indirectly influences atmospheric carbon. Computing ecosystem carbon for an area ex...

Authors: Larjavaara, M.;Kanninen, M.;Alam, S.A.;Mäkinen, A.;Poeplau, C.

Peru has the fourth largest area of peatlands in the Tropics. Its most representative land cover on peat is a Mauritia flexuosa do...

Authors: Hergoualc\'h, K.;Gutierrez-Velez, V.H.;Menton, M.;Verchot, L.V.

This paper focuses on the assessment of legislative considerations and local perceptions of equity in Vietnam\'s Payments for Fore...

Authors: Loft, L.;Le, D.N.;Pham, T.T.;Yang, A.L.;Tjajadi, J.S.;Wong, G.Y.

The present study focuses on forest incomes of households around forest concessions in Cameroon. The contributions of forest incom...

Authors: Makoudjou, A.;Levang, P.;Tieguhong, J.C.

Scientists have the difficult task of clearly conveying the ecological consequences of forest and wetland loss to the public. To a...

Authors: Kauffman, J.B.;Arifanti, V.B.;Trejo, H.H.;del Carmen Jesús García, M.;Norfolk, J.;Cifuentes, M.;Hadriyanto, D.;Murdiyarso, D.