Tropical forests could satisfy multiple demands for goods and services both for present and
future generations. Yet integrated approaches to natural forest management remain elusive …

The growing knowledge and understanding of the contribution of non-timber forest products
to local livelihoods is not matched with equal understanding of the sustainability of direct …

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 …

Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of
significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision …

Although Indonesia is experiencing one of the most complex transformations of social
forestry policy in the world, there is a need to step back and more closely examine the …

Who benefits from community forestry and who gets left out? Soon after it emerged as a
significant trend in the global South in the 1980s, practitioners, advocates and scholars …

The paper is a scientiic commented discussion with the aim of deining a framework which
allows both a comprehensive vision of forest dynamics, as well as an adaptive management …

Fire risk management is at a crossroads. The last three fire seasons worldwide, dotted by
extreme fire behavior and “megafire” events, highlighted the need for a shifting mentality …

Different arrangements of decentralized forest management have been promoted as
alternatives to centralized and top down approaches to halt tropical deforestation and forest …

With momentum building around the implementation of REDD+ programmes and projects,
questions surrounding the appropriate structuring of institutions are becoming increasingly …