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The methods used to value tropical forests have the potential to influence how policy makers and others perceive forest landsforestlands. A small number of valuation studies achieve real impact. These are generally succinct accounts supporting a specific perception. However, such reports risk bei...


Sheil, DouglasWunder, Sven[The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions]The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions

The changing role of forests in people’s livelihoods in frontier areas is important from the perspective of poverty alleviation and forest conservation. This study explores the link between expanding economic opportunities, forest dependence, and welfare in 73 villages. Village economic options, ...


Dewi, S.Belcher, B.Puntodewo, A.[Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia]Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

In the growing literature at the interface of rural livelihood improvement and conservation of natural forests, two overarching issues stand out: (1) How and to what extent use of forest resources do and can contribute to poverty alleviation and (2) How and to what extent poverty alleviation and ...


Sunderlin, William D.Angelsen, A.Belcher, B.Burgess, P.Nasi, RobertSantoso, L.Wunder, Sven[Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview]Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview

Indonesian legislation calls for a zero-burning policy. This approach to fire management is largely in response to significant negative impacts on the economy and the environment, not only in Indonesia but also the neighbouring region, that result annually from peat fires in Kalimantan and Sumatr...


Tacconi, L.Ruchiat, Y.[Livelihoods, fire and policy in eastern Indonesia]Livelihoods, fire and policy in eastern Indonesia

Forest exploitation has been the main economic driver in the northern Bolivian Amazon. The country enacted changes in legislation and policies affecting natural resource governance. These changes increase the control of the forestry sector by rural communities. Conflicts characterize these change...


Jong, W. deRuiz, S.Becker, M.[Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia]Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia

Decentralization in post-Soeharto Indonesia has not only changed state and society relations at the local level, but brought increased control over forests at the district level. Local social forces gained more influence because of their close relations with local government and acted to limit th...


Wollenberg, Eva K.Moeliono, M.Limberg, G.Iwan, R.Rhee, S.Sudana, M.[Between state and society: Local governance of forests in Malinau, Indonesia]Between state and society: Local governance of forests in Malinau, Indonesia
Engel, S.Palmer, C.[Who owns the right? The determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia]Who owns the right? The determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia

The new approaches advocated by the conservation community to integrate conservation and livelihood development now explicitly address landscape mosaics composed of agricultural and forested land rather than only protected areas and largely intact forests. We refer specifically to a call by Harve...


García, C.A.Bhagwat, S.A.Ghazoul, J.Nath, C.D.Nanaya, K.M.Kushalappa, C.G.Raghuramulu, Y.Nasi, RobertVaast, Philippe[Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: challenges and opportunities of coffee agroforests in the Western Ghats, India]Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: challenges and opportunities of coffee agroforests in the Western Ghats, India

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