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Forest devolution is meant to provide communities with greater decision-making power over the use and future of tropical forests. However, devolution policies have not always had the intended effect; in some cases they have caused or furthered the disenfranchisement of the poor, the creation of o...


Evans, K.Jong, W. deCronkleton, P.[Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities]Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities

At their most local, initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) will depend on rural people to manage forest resources. Although the design of frameworks, mechanisms and arrangements, to implement REDD programs have received significant attention, it is not yet clea...


Cronkleton, P.Bray, D.B.Medina, G.[Community forest management and the emergence of multi-scale governance institutions: lessons for REDD+ development from Mexico, Brazil and Bolivia]Community forest management and the emergence of multi-scale governance institutions: lessons for REDD+ development from Mexico, Brazil and Bolivia

Increased devolution of forest ownership and management rights to local control has the potential to promote both conservation and livelihood development in remote tropical regions. Such shifts in property rights, however, can generate conflicts, particularly when combined with rapidly increasing...


Duchelle, Amy E.Cronkleton, P.Kainer, K.A.Guanacoma, G.Gezan, S.[Resource theft in tropical forest communities: implications for nontimber management, livelihoods, and conservation]Resource theft in tropical forest communities: implications for nontimber management, livelihoods, and conservation

Significant tenure reforms have taken place over public forestlands in the past 20 years in Latin America. These reforms differ from previous tenure reforms with respect to their origins and goals. In forest tenure reform, rights have being granted through a diversity of tenure arrangements, main...


Pacheco, P.Barry, D.M.Cronkleton, P.Larson, A.M.[The recognition of forest rights in Latin America: progress and shortcomings of forest tenure reforms]The recognition of forest rights in Latin America: progress and shortcomings of forest tenure reforms

This paper describes a participatory mapping method field tested with agro-extractive settlements in the Bolivian Amazon. A regional transition from customary to formal property rights resulting from sweeping 1996 land tenure reforms has led to confusion and conflicts over resource rights, a prob...


Cronkleton, P.Albornoz, M.A.Barnes, G.Evans, K.Jong, W. de[Social geomatics: participatory forest mapping to mediate resource conflict in the Bolivian Amazon]Social geomatics: participatory forest mapping to mediate resource conflict in the Bolivian Amazon

In Bolivia’s Northern Amazon, forests long used for the extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are now experiencing increased logging. The extraction of timber and economically important NTFPs such as Brazil nuts (from the emergent forest tree Bertholletia excelsa) is occurring in the s...


Cronkleton, P.Guariguata, M.R.Albornoz, M.A.[Multiple use forestry planning: Timber and Brazil nut management in the community forests of Northern Bolivia]Multiple use forestry planning: Timber and Brazil nut management in the community forests of Northern Bolivia
Cronkleton, P.Pulhin, J.MSaigal, S.[Co-management in community forestry: how the partial devolution of management rights creates challenges for forest communities]Co-management in community forestry: how the partial devolution of management rights creates challenges for forest communities
Paudel, N.S.Monterroso, I.Cronkleton, P.[Secondary level organisations and the democratisation of forest governance: case studies from Nepal and Guatemala]Secondary level organisations and the democratisation of forest governance: case studies from Nepal and Guatemala
Cronkleton, P.Larson, A.M.Feintrenie, L.García, C.Levang, P.[Reframing community forestry to manage the forest-farm interface]Reframing community forestry to manage the forest-farm interface

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