Efforts to promote popular participation in forest management in Sub-Saharan Africa have
faced many obstacles and disappointments. Although promises of improvements in relation …

Benefit-sharing has been instrumental in empowering local communities living on the edge
of protected areas to engage in natural resource management and enhance biodiversity …

REDD+ is an ambition to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation in the Global South. This ambition has generated unprecedented commitment …

Recent scholarship focuses on elite capture as a driver of social inequality and a source of
policy failure across a wide range of governance initiatives. In the context of environmental …

Despite billions of dollars invested,“getting to scale” remains a fundamental challenge for
conservation donors and practitioners. Occasionally, however, a conservation intervention …

The proposed mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
(REDD+) offers significant potential for conserving forests to reduce negative impacts of …

From the 1980s great hopes have been placed on community forest management to
promote socio-economic development along with forest protection. Empirical research has …

Understanding the relationship between components of varied decentralized governance
models for community or collaborative management and forest conservation outcomes has …

Understanding the spatial distribution of the quantity and economic value of Non-Timber
Forest Product (NTFP) collection gives insight into the benefits that local communities obtain …

In this paper, I address a gap in the literature on environmental social science by providing a
basic rubric for the conduct of empirical research in this interdisciplinary field. Current …