Does community forest management provide global environmental benefits and improve local welfare?

DE Bowler, LM Buyung-Ali, JR Healey… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Global financial donors have invested billions of dollars in “Sustainable Forest
Management” to conserve forests and the ecosystem services they provide. A major …

Reforms from the ground up: a review of community-based forest management in tropical develo** countries

L Tole - Environmental management, 2010 - Springer
After an initial burst of enthusiasm in the 1990s, community-based forest management
(CBFM) is increasingly being viewed with a critical eye. Evidence suggests that many …

The linkages between deforestation, energy and growth for environmental degradation in Pakistan

K Ahmed, M Shahbaz, A Qasim, W Long - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
This study explores the validation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for
Pakistan using time series data from 1980–2013 with deforestation as an indicator …

Evaluating the role of livelihood assets in suitable livelihood strategies: Protocol for anti-poverty policy in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, China

X Hua, J Yan, Y Zhang - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Although numerous studies have been conducted on the relationship between livelihood
assets and strategies, only a few quantitative studies exist on the topic for anti-poverty …

Impacts of access and benefit sharing on livelihoods and forest: Case of participatory forest management in Ethiopia

A Ameha, OJ Nielsen, HO Larsen - Ecological Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
The introduction of participatory forest management (PFM) may involve the exclusion of
previous forest users from accessing forest resources. This is the case for PFM in the two …

[BOOK][B] An environmental history of India: from earliest times to the twenty-first century

MH Fisher - 2018 - books.google.com
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many
biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By …

Rainforest Alliance Certification of Kenyan tea farms: a contribution to sustainability or tokenism?

BO Ochieng, KFD Hughey, H Bigsby - Journal of cleaner production, 2013 - Elsevier
An Environmental Management System (EMS) refers to a set of guidelines that
organisations can use to structure their management to prevent or minimise adverse …

Community forest management for timber extraction in the Amazon frontier

G Medina, B Pokorny… - International Forestry …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Amazonian communities have the potential for improving their livelihoods by efficiently
managing their forest resources. However, there is limited understanding of how …

[PDF][PDF] An analysis of the problems faced by farmers in the mountains of Northwest Pakistan: challenges for agri. extension

B Shahbaz, T Ali, IA Khan, M Ahmad - Pak. J. Agri. Sci, 2010 - pakjas.com.pk
Farming in the mountain areas has always been a challenge for agri. extension workers and
researchers. The mountainous areas of most of the countries are usually among least …

Livelihood dependency on woodland resources in southern Zagros, Iran

A Salehi, LC Karltun, U Soderberg… - Caspian Journal of …, 2010 - cjes.guilan.ac.ir
This study aims to investigate the relationships between people? s livelihoods and the
woodland resources of the Ganaveh watershed in southern Zagros, Iran, as a basis for …