Understanding and managing conservation conflicts

SM Redpath, J Young, A Evely, WM Adams… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Conservation conflicts are increasing and need to be managed to minimise negative
impacts on biodiversity, human livelihoods, and human well-being. Here, we explore …

Beyond markets and states: polycentric governance of complex economic systems

E Ostrom - American economic review, 2010 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Currently, many scholars are undertaking new theoretical efforts. A core effort is developing
a more general theory of individual choice that recognizes the central role of trust in coping …

A global analysis of protected area management effectiveness

F Leverington, KL Costa, H Pavese, A Lisle… - Environmental …, 2010 - Springer
We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness
across the world and developed a method for analyzing results across diverse assessment …

A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas

E Ostrom - Proceedings of the national Academy of …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
The articles in this special feature challenge the presumption that scholars can make simple,
predictive models of social–ecological systems (SESs) and deduce universal solutions …

Ecotourism and the development of indigenous communities: The good, the bad, and the ugly

J Coria, E Calfucura - Ecological Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
A large part of the literature analyzing the links between biodiversity conservation and
community development assumes that nature-based tourism managed by indigenous …

[HTML][HTML] Forests, livelihoods, and conservation: broadening the empirical base

S Wunder, A Angelsen, B Belcher - World Development, 2014 - Elsevier
More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural
smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging …

Assessing community-based conservation projects: A systematic review and multilevel analysis of attitudinal, behavioral, ecological, and economic outcomes

J Brooks, KA Waylen, MB Mulder - Environmental evidence, 2013 - Springer
Background Community-based conservation (CBC) promotes the idea that long-term
conservation success requires engaging with, and providing benefits for local communities …

Community forestry in theory and practice: Where are we now?

S Charnley, MR Poe - Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Community forestry refers to forest management that has ecological sustainability and local
community benefits as central goals, with some degree of responsibility and authority for …

Forests, governance, and sustainability: common property theory and its contributions

A Agrawal - International journal of the commons, 2007 - JSTOR
It would be no exaggeration to say that the study of forests as commons has been central to
the development of scholarship on common property. Equally certainly, the interest in forests …

How national context, project design, and local community characteristics influence success in community-based conservation projects

JS Brooks, KA Waylen… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Community-based conservation (CBC) promotes the idea that conservation success
requires engaging with, and providing benefits for, local communities. However, CBC …