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Synthesis: Women as stewards of environmental and social transformations in tropical forests Open
What happens when women lead in forest landscapes? Across the tropics, women are playing powerful but often overlooked roles in conserving forests, sustaining livelihoods, and strengthening communities. From Indigenous knowledge keepers to…
View article: Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru
Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru Open
Voluntary land conservation, including privately protected areas (PPAs), is a key component of enabling the future of biodiversity on Earth. Accordingly, the question of motivations has preoccupied conservation social science. True motivat…
Sovereign at heart: photovoice, food mapping and giving back in Alberni-Clayoquot Open
This article reflects on a year-long project that used both photovoice and food asset mapping methods in the Alberni-Clayoquot Region of British Columbia, Canada. Following others who emphasize reciprocation in research and the application…
A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America Open
Privately protected areas (PPAs) are a potentially innovative conservation tool. Legal recognition is necessary for their success, especially where there are institutional challenges to nature conservation, such as in South America. Althou…
Recognizing Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and their identity, culture, rights, and governance of forestlands: Introduction to the Special Issue Open
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the diversity of international research on the multiple ways in which Indigenous and Traditional peoples (ITP) are engaged in occupying and governing forest landscapes, consistent with thei…
The political logics of EU-FLEGT in Thailand’s multistakeholder negotiations: Hegemony and resistance Open
The reduction of illegal logging and related trade has been on the international policy agenda since the 1990s. The EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade initiative (EU-FLEGT) seeks to address illegal logging through a scheme t…
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria Open
Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized as areas of cultural and religious importance to local people. In some cases, the entire community guards against the desecration of, or unaut…
View article: Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry
Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry Open
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry. \n \nContaining contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry presents a trul…
Forestry sector, alternative for peace and sustainable development in Colombia. Coffee region case Open
The study focused on the potential role of the forest sector in Columbiaâs post-conflict processes based on the multifunctionality of forests and their components: communities that live in and close to forests, economic dynamics, social …
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria. Open
Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation system, recognized for their capacity to preserve areas that are of cultural and religious importance to local people. In most cases, the entire community…
Food assets for whom? Community perspectives on food asset mapping in Canada Open
This infographic is based on the following scholarly article: Soma, T., Shulman, T., Li, B., Bulkan, J., & Curtis, M. (2022). Food assets for whom? Community perspectives on food asset mapping in Canada. Journal of Urbanism: International …
Smallholder Forestry in the FSC System: A Review Open
Since its inception in 1993, the Forest Stewardship Council certification scheme to assess the quality of responsible forest stewardship has aimed to certify both industrial-scale and smallholder forests. This article considers variations …
Global Ecological Signpost, Local Reality: The Moraballi Creek Studies in Guyana and What Happened Afterwards Open
There is a common assumption that when sustainable forest management (SFM) is not practised the reasons are usually a lack of knowledge or lack of training in applying those techniques. We trace the intermittent development of techniques f…
Indigenous Children’s Knowledge About Non-timber Forest Products in Suriname Open
Childhood and adolescence are important life stages for the acquisition of knowledge about non-timber forest products (NTFPs). We show at which stage in life traditional plant knowledge is learned and analyze whether cross-cultural ethnobo…
Indigenous Forest Management Open
Variants of Indigenous forest management reflect distinct historical and political-economic contexts. Indigenous forest management was largely unrecorded in the colonial period and, in the present, can range from industrial to ecosystem-ba…
Rentier nation : landlordism, patronage and power in Guyana’s gold mining sector Open
The consequences are examined of the revision of Guyana's Mining Act in 1989 that was intended to allow access to international mining companies while safeguarding national interests. One outcome was the acquisition of over 75% of small-sc…
Social, cultural and spiritual (SCS) needs and values Open
Social, cultural and spiritual (SCS) needs and values in relation to the natural world have been recorded and reported for all societies in historical time. While social or material needs may appear to be plainly utilitarian, they are gene…
Global Ecological Signpost, Local Reality: The Moraballi Creek Studies in Guyana and What Happened Afterwards Open
There is a common assumption that when sustainable forest management (SFM) is not practised the reasons are usually a lack of knowledge or lack of training in applying those techniques. We trace the intermittent development of techniques f…
Bai Shan Lin: The Chinese Logger with Multiple Interests in Guyana Open
Bai Shan Lin (BSL), a partially state-owned Chinese logging company began operating in 2007 in Guyana, a small but resource-rich South American country nestled between Venezuela and Suriname on the Caribbean coast to the north of Brazil. T…
Rentier nation: Landlordism, patronage and power in Guyana’s gold mining sector Open
The consequences are examined of the revision of Guyana's Mining Act in 1989 that was intended to \nallow access to international mining companies while safeguarding national interests. One outcome was \nthe acquisition of over 75% of smal…
What does “First Nation deep roots in the forests” mean? Identification of principles and objectives for promoting forest-based development Open
We often hear about the resistance of First Nation (FN) communities to the industrial model of forestry, but we hear less about what they wish to achieve. Translating FN perspectives into concepts that are understood by the mainstream soci…
View article: Historical drivers of landscape and dietary change in an agricultural frontier: Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, Siuna, Nicaragua
Historical drivers of landscape and dietary change in an agricultural frontier: Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, Siuna, Nicaragua Open
Deforestation in Central America's rain forests is a growing problem that is typically attributed to the expansion of the agricultural frontier, yet little is known about the historical drivers of migration, settlement and forest loss. Thi…
Rentier States in Guyana and Suriname and the Consequent Lack of a Social Contract Open
Successive coastland-dominated governments in independent Guyana have retained both rentier control of resource extractive activities located on State-claimed public lands and the colonial tradition of absentee holders of State-issued conc…
'Original Lords of the Soil'? Amerindian Rights and the Expansion of State Power in Guyana Open
The consequences of State claims to, and controls over, the territories of Guyana’s Indigenous Peoples (Amerindians) are traced through successive Dutch and British colonial to post-Independence governments. From the mid-eighteenth century…