The world's largest area of tropical peatland ecosystems is found in South-East Asia. These
peatlands have globally significant carbon stocks and play an important role in regional and …

By extensively reviewing the current state of knowledge, this paper explores the
sustainability implications of palm oil biodiesel in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia …

Community forestry has been described as a decentralised mode of forest governance that
only partly lives up to its expectations. The power of important actors to misuse the …

Community forest management has been identified as a win-win option for reducing
deforestation while improving the welfare of rural communities in develo** countries …

Tropical forests and peatlands provide important ecological, climate and socio‐economic
benefits from the local to the global scale. However, these ecosystems and their associated …

Intensification and expansion are two essential tenets of commercial agriculture. This paper
analyses trends of intensification and expansion at the national level, particularly in the oil …

Land use change is influenced by a complexity of drivers that transcend spatial, institutional
and temporal scales. The analytical framework of telecoupling has recently been proposed …

There is abundant literature focusing on the palm oil sector, which has grown into a vigorous
sector with production originating mainly from Malaysia and Indonesia, and on increased …

The global palm oil value chain has grown in complexity; stakeholder relationships and
linkages are increasingly shaped by new public and private standards that aim to ameliorate …

Conflict between large-scale oil-palm producers and local communities is widespread in
palm-oil producer nations. With a potential doubling of oil-palm cultivation in Indonesia in …