The Companion to Development Studies is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with
an interest in development studies. Over 100 international experts have been brought …

Building on the contributions of Mather and others, this paper offers an approach for
developing a more comprehensive theory of the forest transition. We argue that long-run …

Knowledge of tropical forest change remains uncertain, affecting our ability to produce
accurate estimates of globally aggregated parameters to support clear global statements …

Despite remaining uncertainties, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest
Degradation in developing countries (REDD) projects are being planned and implemented …

Illegal logging is a threat to biodiversity and rural livelihoods in the Northern Sierra Madre
Natural Park, the largest protected area in the Philippines. Every year between 20,000 and …

We analyze how governance may influence competing land uses for forests, and thus the
occurrence of forest transitions, across different low and middle-income countries. We …

During the last half century, rubber plantations have spread widely and rapidly in
Xishuangbanna, China. This study characterizes the process of expansion in smallholder …

Forest governance in many African countries is characterised by a blatant gap between
policy and implementation. Contrary to studies that explain this discrepancy mainly with …

The “human appropriation of net primary production”(HANPP) has been suggested as a
comprehensive indicator to measure impacts of human land use on ecosystems. It accounts …

For centuries, forests have been a key component of rural livelihood. They are important
both socially and economically in Nepal. Firewood and fodder are the basic forest products …