The world's forests provide valuable contributions to people but continue to be threatened by
agricultural expansion and other land uses. Counterfactual-based methods are increasingly …

Impact evaluation aims to estimate the effect of an intervention on intended, and perhaps
unintended, outcomes compared to the outcomes of no intervention or different intervention …

Efforts to tackle the current biodiversity crisis need to be as efficient and effective as possible
given chronic underfunding. To inform decision‐makers of the most effective conservation …

Effective policy instruments are needed to halt or even reverse ongoing tropical
deforestation. In this context, the increased focus on incentive-based instruments on the one …

Two concurrent trends are contributing towards a much broader view of forest conservation.
First, the appreciation of the role of forests as a nature-based climate solution has grown …

Protected areas (PAs) are crucial for biodiversity conservation, but doubts are rising
regarding their effectiveness in conserving habitat quality. This study used the Integrated …

Conditional incentives are a promising complementary approach to conserve tropical
forests, for example, in multiple-use protected areas. In this paper we analyze the …

Background Meta-analysis is often used to make generalisations across all available
evidence at the global scale. But how can these global generalisations be used for evidence …

Abstract The EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan (FLEGT)
adopted in 2003 includes bilateral trade agreements known as Voluntary Partnership …

In 2019, government of Thailand recognized community-based forest management and
gave rights to communities to manage their forests. We evaluated the effectiveness of long …