Strategies to protect biodiversity in the face of a global crisis must be place‐based and
sensitive to context. A failure to consider the socioeconomic and political circumstances, as …

The livelihoods of indigenous peoples, custodians of the world's forests since time
immemorial, were eroded as colonial powers claimed de jure control over their ancestral …

The recent antiracist move ment in the United States and beyond inspired the Sierra Club,
one of the oldest and most presti gious global conservation organiza tions, to distance itself …

Highlights•Sustainability science has struggled to provide a systematic approach for
studying institutional development and change.•This paper presents three advances in …

Discussions of land grabs for various purposes, including environmental ends, have
expanded in recent years, yet land grabbing remains inconsistently defined and poorly …

Abstract Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was
originally conceived to address the global problem of climate change by reducing …

This paper joins the debate on the relationship between inequality and the environment.
Departing from the past contributions, which focused either on the theories of environmental …

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but
unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these …

There is currently a considerable effort to evaluate the performance of Payments for
Ecosystem Services as an environmental management tool. The research presented here …

This paper proposes that biodiversity conservation practice will benefit from assessment of
environmental justice outcomes, especially in contexts of poverty and social marginalisation …