Forests are sources of wood, non‐timber forest products and ecosystems services and
goods that benefit society as a whole, and are especially important to rural livelihoods …

Highlights•Presents methods and outcome pathways for forest landscape restoration
(FLR).•Identifies direct/indirect livelihood and well-being outcomes common in FLR …

Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) are affected by global environmental
change because they directly rely on their immediate environment for meeting basic …

The concept of land use transition highlights that land use change is non-linear and is
associated with other societal and biophysical system changes. A transition in land use is …

Policy implementation is essential to the effectiveness of environmental governance.
Focusing on two types of policies in China, law derived environmental policies and plan …

There has often been a gap between policy intentions and outcomes in the field of natural
resource governance. Analysing the factors for these discrepancies requires multi-level …

Commodity crop expansion, for both global and domestic urban markets, follows multiple
land change pathways entailing direct and indirect deforestation, and results in various …

Recently in Vietnam, a coalition of international NGOs, donors and government officials
have been promoting market-based forest conservation projects in the form of payments for …

Efforts to combat global climate change through forestry plantations designed to sequester
carbon and promote sustainable development are on the rise. This paper analyses the …

This study integrates the use of multi-source and multi-resolution remote sensing,
topographic and field-based datasets to quantify land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes …