Global financial donors have invested billions of dollars in “Sustainable Forest
Management” to conserve forests and the ecosystem services they provide. A major …

This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of payment for environmental
services (PES) programmes on deforestation and poverty, and whether environmental and …

Since the 1980's, decentralized forest management has been promoted as a way to
enhance sustainable forest use and reduce rural poverty. Rural communities manage …

Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that
some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result …

Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments |
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We review and confirm the claim that credible evaluations of common conservation
instruments continue to be rare. The limited set of rigorous studies suggests that protected …

In the past two decades, scholarship on resource use and management has emphasized the
key role of institutions, communities, and socio-economic factors. Although much of this …

Community forestry in Nepal vests rights of access, use, exclusion, and management of
national forestland to local user groups. There is strong potential for community forests to …

This paper reviews the state of economic understanding about fuelwood in developing
countries. It synthesizes the main results from numerous empirical studies with the intent of …

We investigate determinants of household firewood collection in rural Nepal, using 1995–96
and 2002–3 World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data. We …