How to feed, house, clothe and power 11 billion of us without eliminating very many species
and wrecking Earth's climate is perhaps this century's greatest challenge. We must obviously …

A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

New estimates of the impacts of germplasm improvement in the major staple crops between
1965 and 2004 on global land-cover change are presented, based on simulations carried …

Policies to effectively reduce deforestation are discussed within a land rent (von Thünen)
framework. The first set of policies attempts to reduce the rent of extensive agriculture, either …

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 …

This book is organized around a presentation of historical and classic core models that
every serious student or researcher of forest economics must know. These models, along …

Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every
year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in …

Effective policies to halt deforestation depend critically on the forest context. This article uses
a forest transition framework to discuss three forest contexts: remote (core) forest areas …

Using community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals Page 227 Chapter 16 Using
community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals Arun Agrawal and Arild Angelsen • …