Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific
domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non …

A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) are affected by global environmental
change because they directly rely on their immediate environment for meeting basic …

Biodiversity citizen science projects are growing in number, size, and scope, and are
gaining recognition as valuable data sources that build public engagement. Yet publication …

More than two decades ago, Schlager and Ostrom (1992) developed 'a conceptual schema
for arraying property-rights regimes that distinguishes among diverse bundles of rights'. The …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs are one prominent strategy to address
economic externalities of resource extraction and commodity production, improving both …

Pervasive overuse and degradation of common pool resources (CPRs) is a global concern.
To sustainably manage CPRs, effective governance institutions are essential. A large …

Abstract The 2010 Nagoya Protocol under the Convention on Biological Diversity and recent
changes in the policies of major international conservation organizations highlight current …

Locally based monitoring is typically undertaken in areas in which communities have a close
attachment to their natural resource base. We present a summary of work to develop a …