Does secure land tenure save forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation

BE Robinson, MB Holland… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Deforestation and degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political
factors. Many assume that among the most important of these are the particular bundles of …

Increasing demand for natural rubber necessitates a robust sustainability initiative to mitigate impacts on tropical biodiversity

E Warren‐Thomas, PM Dolman… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Strong international demand for natural rubber is driving expansion of industrial‐scale and
smallholder monoculture plantations, with> 2 million ha established during the last decade …

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

MS Fletcher, R Hamilton… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The environmental crises currently grip** the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia

Y Feng, AD Ziegler, PR Elsen, Y Liu, X He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Southeast Asia contains about half of all tropical mountain forests, which are rich in
biodiversity and carbon stocks, yet there is debate as to whether regional mountain forest …

[LIVRE][B] Forests are gold: Trees, people, and environmental rule in Vietnam

PD McElwee - 2016 - books.google.com
Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth
century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as …

Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research

JC Franco, SM Borras Jr - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper builds on the literature on green grabbing. It makes a fresh contribution by
bringing in aspects of green grabbing that are less visible and obvious. These are subtle …

Smallholder agriculture and climate change

AS Cohn, P Newton, JDB Gil, L Kuhl… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people directly depend on smallholder farming
systems. These people now face a changing climate and associated societal responses. We …

From teleconnection to telecoupling: taking stock of an emerging framework in land system science

C Friis, JØ Nielsen, I Otero, H Haberl… - Journal of Land Use …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The impact of swidden decline on livelihoods and ecosystem services in Southeast Asia: A review of the evidence from 1990 to 2015

WH Dressler, D Wilson, J Clendenning, R Cramb… - Ambio, 2017 - Springer
Global economic change and policy interventions are driving transitions from long-fallow
swidden (LFS) systems to alternative land uses in Southeast Asia's uplands. This study …

The state of migratory landbirds in the East Asian Flyway: Distributions, threats, and conservation needs

DL Yong, W Heim, SU Chowdhury, CY Choi… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With nearly 400 migratory landbird species, the East Asian Flyway is the most diverse of the
world's flyways. This diversity is a consequence of the varied ecological niches provided by …