US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA d School of Forest Resources, University of Washington, ...

Women’s participation in decision making at the user-group level and in forest committees has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on forest sustainability. For example, women’s participation enhances forest regeneration and reduces illegal harvesting through improved monitoring. Their presence in forest user groups increases the groups’ capacity to manage and resolve conflicts, which in...

Whereas rational and formal reasoning should be devoid of contradictions, people must often handle conflicting perspectives in everyday contexts. The present article is based on empirical studies of conflicting prototypes of forest in Sweden and Canada. Conflicting prototypes of forest correspond to different values and actions in real environments. The empirical data demonstrate how metaphoric...

This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset com prising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on average 1.21 ha. Male headed households with abundance of male labor, living in recently settled pla...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a financial mechanism aimed at providing incentives to reduce carbon emissions from forests and enhance carbon stocks. In most forest-rich developing countries, policy actors, i.e., state and nonstate as well as international and national, are designing national REDD+ policies. Actors’ interests and beliefs shape patterns o...

1 Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 History of Medicine, History and Cultural Studies, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, 4 Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice...

González-Cabán, Armando. 2009. Proceedings of the third international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: common problems and approaches. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-227 (English). Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 395 p. These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies ...

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 by neglecting extension, marketing, and infrastructure, generating alternative income opportunities, stimulating intensive agricultural production or by reforming land tenure. The second set aims to increase ...

Recent studies have highlighted land-use conflicts between stakeholder groups in Ireland. Some of these conflicts can be attributed to European directives, designed with sustainable forest management principles in mind, but imposing incoherencies for land-owners and stakeholders at the local level. This study, using Ireland’s Western Peatland forests as a case study area, focused on the develop...

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