Authors: Bukoski, J.J.; Broadhead, J.S.; Donato, D.C.; Murdiyarso, D.; Gregoire, T.G.

Mangroves provide extensive ecosystem services that support local livelihoods and international environmental goals, including coastal protection, biodiversity conservation and the

Authors: Rotich, B.; Mwangi, E.; Lawry, S.

This report provides a synoptic analysis of the legal and governance frameworks that relate to the use and management of

Authors: Rotich, B.; Mwangi, E.; Lawry, S.

This 8-page brief summarizes key findings from the report Where Land Meets The Sea: A Global Review of the Governance

Authors: Sijapati Basnett, B.; Gnych, S.; Anandi, C.A.M.

Key messages

• Gender issues are relegated to the periphery in current debates and approaches concerning the sustainable governance of oil palm

Authors: Chiwona-Karltun, L.; Kimanzu, N.; Clendenning, J.; Lodin, J.B.; Ellingson, C.; Lidestav, G.; Mkwambisi, D.; Mwangi, E.; Nhantumbo, I.; Ochieng, C.; Petrokofsky, G.; Sartas, M.

There is increasing awareness of the importance of gender in natural resource management. Especially for communities dependent upon forests for

Authors: Brown, B.; Djamaluddin, R.

Nature has an amazing ability to heal itself, but sometimes requires the assistance of humans to set it on track.

Authors: Arwida, S.D.; Maharani, C.; Sijapati Basnett, B.; Yang, A.L.

Key messages

• Despite the promising benefits that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests,

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

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

Authors: CIFOR;

The forest-farm interface is a mosaic landscape of integrated management and production practices that combines agricultural, forest and livestock land

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

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

Authors: Aini, F.K.

Ongoing conversion of forests in Sumatra to agricultural lands might affect the biodiversity of soil fauna, such as termites, and

Authors: Kauffman, J.B.; Arifanti, V.B.; Basuki, I.; Kurnianto, S.; Novita, N.; Murdiyarso, D.; Donato, D.C.; Warren, M.W.

Tropical peat swamp forests contain among the largest terrestrial carbon stocks on Earth. They support unique biological diversity, providing habitats

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

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

Authors: CIFOR;

The impacts of the toxic smoke from Indonesian peatland and forest fires have generated considerable concern from multiple sectors. The

Authors: Murdiyarso, D.; Hergoualc';h, K.; Sasmito, S.D.; Hanggara, B.

In collaboration with the University of Riau, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has established permanent plots in Tanjung