Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is a global
mechanism being debated by the international community, aimed at mitigating dangerous …

A number of international donors, national governments and project proponents have begun
to lay the groundwork for REDD+, but tenure insecurity–including the potential risks of land …

REDD+ social safeguards have gained increasing attention in numerous forums. This paper
reviews the evolution of multi-level policy dialogues, processes, and actions related to …

Benefit-sharing mechanisms are a central design aspect of REDD+ because they help to
create the necessary incentives to reduce carbon emissions. However, if stakeholders do …

This paper investigates how three aspects of governance systems, namely the policy
context, the influence of key agents and their discursive practices, are affecting national …

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the
fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other …

'Non-traditional'security problems like pandemic diseases, climate change and terrorism
now pervade the global agenda. Many argue that sovereign state-based governance is no …

We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on forest land appropriation by
farm households in Jambi Province, Sumatra, using micro-level data covering land use and …

Oil palm plantations have been touted as one of the main drivers of deforestation in
Indonesia. This paper aims to explain how oil palm companies accumulate power that …

The hopes of customary communities in Indonesia have recently been bolstered by
Constitutional Court assurances that they have the right to control customary forest. There …