Protected Areas (PAs) are a critical tool for maintaining habitat integrity and species
diversity, and now cover more than 12.7% of the planet's land surface area. However, there …

Executive summary Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in
continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased …

Developing countries are increasingly decentralizing forest governance by granting
indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to land. However, the …

This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …

A CCESS TO LAND AND THE ABILITY TO MAKE productive use of such land is critical to
poor people worldwide. In addition to its direct effect on households' welfare and their …

The relationship between private property and common property has engaged both legal
and economic scholars in a long series of controversies over the meaning, the sequence of …

" Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion
about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses …

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, Indonesia instituted a nationwide
moratorium on new license areas (“concessions”) for oil palm plantations, timber plantations …

Land-use-change patterns are the result of the complex interaction between the human and
the physical environment. Case studies of the determinants of land-use change can help to …

Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In
this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I …