The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program, or REDD+,
has been the international community's first real attempt to create a global forest governance …

Global financial donors have invested billions of dollars in “Sustainable Forest
Management” to conserve forests and the ecosystem services they provide. A major …

While community forestry has shown promise to reduce rural poverty, improve reforestation
and potentially offset carbon emissions, many projects have failed, either partly or …

Abstract Scope, Delineations, and Definitions: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Inequality
Understanding the impacts of climate change on livelihoods and poverty requires examining …

This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term
maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Through a meta-analysis of published case …

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) policies, projects,
and interventions are among the most prominent of recent attempts to mitigate climate …

Recent scholarship focuses on elite capture as a driver of social inequality and a source of
policy failure across a wide range of governance initiatives. In the context of environmental …

We provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on social safeguards and co-benefits in
REDD+ with a focus on debates on: first, tenure security, and second, effective participation …

Fundamental trade-offs exist between different land uses for carbon, livelihoods, economic
development, biodiversity, agriculture and energy (especially biofuels). This article analyses …

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but
unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these …