While community forestry has shown promise to reduce rural poverty, improve reforestation
and potentially offset carbon emissions, many projects have failed, either partly or …

Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South
have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around …

Participatory forest management has been considered as a practical and effective strategy
for sustainable forest management, especially in situations where land tenure is not securely …

Abstract Five Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines and
Malaysia) have experienced forest transitions, that is, a shift from net deforestation to net …

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

Mangrove forests are remarkably diverse and productive ecosystems, with distinctive
biophysical environments in intertidal coastal regions of the tropics and subtropics. In these …

Human-caused environmental change has profoundly impacted resource management and
land use patterns in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. This study used multi-temporal …

Forests in the humid tropics contribute to a wide range of globally demanded forest
ecosystem services (FES) and are also beneficial to local communities, which are often …

Although social forestry in Indonesia is envisioned as a policy for recognizing local practices
to forest management, research is still limited. This research describes conditions of social …

This study generally aims to synthesize the best practices and challenges in mangrove
rehabilitation in the Philippines, Myanmar, Japan, China and India. It employed an in-depth …