Oil palm production expanded 1.2 million hectares in sub-Saharan Africa since 1990, with expansion accelerating in several heavily...
Authors: Ordway, E.M.;Naylor, R.L.;Nkongho, R.N.;Lambin, E.F.
Articles
On the Use of Hedonic Price Indices to Understand Ecosystem Service Provision from Urban Green Space in Five Latin American Megacities
Publication Year : 2017
Abstract: Latin American (LA) megacities are facing enormous challenges to provide welfare to millions of people who live in them....
Authors: de Mola, U.L.;Ladd, B.;Duarte, S.;Borchard, N.;La Rosa, R.A.;Zutta, B.
Interconnected place-based social-ecological research can inform global sustainability
Publication Year : 2017
Global sustainability initiatives are gaining momentum and impact, and place-based research can provide complementary insights to ...
Authors: Balvanera, P.;Calderón-Contreras, R.;Castro, A.J.;Felipe-Lucia, M.R.;Geijzendorffer, I.R.;Jacobs, S.;Martín-López, B.;Arbieu, U.;Ifejika Speranza, C.;Locatelli, B.;Pérez Harguindeguy, N.;Ruiz Mercado, I.R.;Spierenburg, M.J.;Vallet, A.;Lynes, L.;Gillson, L.
Studies on forest landscape restoration in hilly and mountainous regions of Asia and Africa - an introduction to the Special Issue
Publication Year : 2017
The field of forest landscape restoration (FLR) is quickly gaining traction now that national commitments to restore degraded land...
Authors: Putzel, L.;Baral, H.;Zhang, K.;Artati, Y.;Cronkleton, P.
How do property rights reforms provide incentives for forest landscape restoration? Comparing evidence from Nepal, China and Ethiopia
Publication Year : 2017
To promote forest landscape restoration (FLR), national governments have embarked on far reaching policy reforms to reclassify lan...
Authors: Cronkleton, P.;Artati, Y.;Baral, H.;Paudyal, K.;Birhane, E.;Kassa, H.;Banjade, M.R.;Jinlong, L.;Chengyue, T.;Putzel, L.
China's Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program as a national PES scheme: Institutional structure, voluntarism and conditionality of PES
Publication Year : 2017
China\'s \'Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program\' (CCFP) is one of the world\'s largest national \'Payment for Ecosystem Servi...
Authors: Zhang, K.;Artati, Y.;Putzel, L.;Xie, C.;Hogarth, N.J.;Wang, J.N.;Wang, J.
Exclosures as forest and landscape restoration tools: lessons from Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Publication Year : 2017
In response to the 2011 Bonn Challenge, Ethiopia has committed to restoring 15 million ha of degraded forest and savannah. This st...
Authors: Birhane, E.;Mengistu, T.;Seyoum, Y.;Hagazi, N.;Putzel, L.;Mekonen Rannestad, M.;Kassa, H.
Shared strengths and limitations of participatory forest management and area exclosure: two major state led landscape rehabilitation mechanisms in Ethiopia
Publication Year : 2017
Participatory forest management (PFM) and area exclosure (AE) are two major degraded forests and agricultural landscapes rehabilit...
Authors: Kassa, H.;Birhane, E.;Bekele, M.;Lemenih, M.;Cronkleton, P.;Putzel, L.;Baral, H.
Can forest stand alone? Barriers to the restoration of the last remaining rainforest in Assam, India
Publication Year : 2017
This study assesses the causes of forest resource depletion in the Poba reserve forest, Assam, India. Although many activities, su...
Authors: Ranabhat, S.;Bhatta, L.D.;Rai, R.K.;Pant, B.;Timalsina, N.;Das, P.J.;Bisht, N.
From denuded to green mountains: process and motivating factors of forest landscape restoration in Phewa Lake watershed, Nepal
Publication Year : 2017
Global initiatives to promote large-scale forest landscape restoration (FLR) require adaptive approaches consistent with locally r...
Authors: Paudyal, K.;Putzel, L.;Baral, H.;Chaundhary, S.;Sharma, R.;Bhandari, S.;Poudel, I.;Keenan, R.J.