This case study of indigenous communities in highland Michoacán, Mexico, examines data
on forest change, woodcutting practices, social history, and a recent forest inventory and …

Most agroforestry-adoption studies are based on surveys of" non-adopters." An
understanding of the circumstances that have led to a change of attitude of the adopters will …

Community forestry is thought to diffuse the kind of tensions over access to resources that
frequently make centralized forest management systems based on the principles of scientific …

To arrest processes of resource degradation, researchers and activists increasingly
advocate community‐based approaches, which recognize local tenure rights and devolve …

Pinus pseudostrobus Lindl. is the forest species most important economically in the state of
Michoacán, at central-west México. We investigated genetic variation among P …

A pilot experiment designed to test the effect of cattle, small mammals, and elevation on the
success of reforestation of an endemic dwarf pine species in northeastern Mexico was …

The purpose of this essay is to introduce and take a critical look at the emerging Ecological
Restoration (ER) movement. The typical characterization of the ER movement is that it …

With many tropical species facing an uncertain future because of habitat loss and
fragmentation, restoration will likely become an increasingly important facet of wildlife …

Some of the most severely degraded forests of the Philippines are being restored by local
community groups whose members are new-comers to forestry. As stakeholders, they are …

Today, calls for power sharing between institutions and local people in all forms of resource
management are common, including restoration ecology (Jaffee, 1997; McGinnis and …