Background on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
Critical Review of Selected Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives
This report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective.
Simulation of the Effect of Intensive Forest Management on Forest Production in Sweden
The effects of intensifying the management of 15% of the Swedish forest land on potential future forest production over a 100-year period were investigated in a simulation study.
Assessing Bioenergy Harvest Risks: Geospatially Explicit Tools for Maintaining Soil Productivity in Western US Forests
Biomass harvesting for energy production and forest health can impact the soil resource by altering inherent chemical, physical and biological properties. These impacts raise concern about damaging sensitive forest soils, even with the prospect of maintaining vigorous forest growth through biomass harvesting operations.
REDD+ and the Indigenous Question: A Case Study from Ecuador
One of the main issues regarding the implementation of REDD+ in Latin America has been the growing concern that such projects may infringe upon the rights and negatively affect the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities. Various indigenous and civil society organizations are ardently opposed to the initiative.
An Ecosystem Approach to Recreation Location Quotients
Despite the widespread agreement on the importance of preserving ecological integrity in conservation and outdoor recreation decision-making processes, traditional metrics analyzing the supply of and demand for conservation and recreation resources have focused on geographical and population-centric units of measurement rather than ecological ones.