Democratic decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution to forest management, livelihoods, and enfranchisement

JC Ribot, JF Lund, T Treue - Environmental Conservation, 2010 - cambridge.org
Efforts to promote popular participation in forest management in Sub-Saharan Africa have
faced many obstacles and disappointments. Although promises of improvements in relation …

The role of forests and trees in poverty dynamics

P Jagger, JZ Cheek, D Miller, C Ryan… - Forest Policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the contribution of forests to poverty alleviation and human well-being has
never been more important. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are erasing gains in …

Examining equity: a multidimensional framework for assessing equity in payments for ecosystem services

M McDermott, S Mahanty, K Schreckenberg - Environmental science & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Concern over social equity dominates current debates about payments for ecosystem
services and reduced deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Yet, despite the …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework

JA Fisher, G Patenaude, K Giri, K Lewis, P Meir… - Ecosystem …, 2014 - Elsevier
As interest grows in the contribution of ecosystem services to poverty alleviation, we present
a new conceptual framework, synthesizing insights from existing frameworks in social …

Elite capture risk and mitigation in decentralized forest governance regimes

L Persha, K Andersson - Global environmental change, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Does community-based forest management in Indonesia devolve social justice or social costs?

S De Royer, M Van Noordwijk… - International Forestry …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
The Indonesian government is committed to allocating 12.7 million hectares of forest land to
local communities through community-based forest management (CBFM) schemes. We …

A critical comparison of conventional, certified, and community management of tropical forests for timber in terms of environmental, economic, and social variables

Z Burivalova, F Hua, LP Koh, C Garcia… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are crucial in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but at the same
time, they are major sources of revenue and provide livelihoods for forest‐dependent …

Equity in community forestry: insights from North and South

MH McDermott, K Schreckenberg - International Forestry …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Who benefits from community forestry and who gets left out? Soon after it emerged as a
significant trend in the global South in the 1980s, practitioners, advocates and scholars …

Rethinking 'expert'knowledge in community forest management in Tanzania

A Scheba, I Mustalahti - Forest Policy and Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
From the 1980s great hopes have been placed on community forest management to
promote socio-economic development along with forest protection. Empirical research has …

Nesting local forestry initiatives: Revisiting community forest management in a REDD+ world

T Hayes, L Persha - Forest Policy and Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between components of varied decentralized governance
models for community or collaborative management and forest conservation outcomes has …