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Characterizing owners of fast-growing forest plantations in South America’s afforestation systems
The global adoption of policies promoting sustainable forest management faces challenges, particularly in nations with predominantly privately-owned...
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The Impact of Swedish Forest Owners’ Values and Objectives on Management Practices and Forest Policy Accomplishment
Swedish forestry policy principles rest on voluntarism and a mutual interest among forest owners, the industry, and the state that timber production...
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A global systematic review of forest management institutions: towards a new research agenda
ContextGlobally, forest landscapes are rapidly transforming, with the role of institutions as mediators in their use and management constantly...
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Governance Challenges of a Local Landscape Observatory Initiative in a Remote Landscape: Ways Ahead
Following the recommendations of the European Landscape Convention for the establishment of landscape observatories (LO), there has been a plethora...
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Resilience Management at the Landscape Level: Fostering Mitigation and Adaptations to Global Change Based on Forest Socio-ecosystems
Agroforestry landscapes provide a variety of ecosystem goods and services at both the farm and landscape levels. They also host thousands of rural...
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Assessment of four urban forest as environmental indicator of air quality: a study in a brazilian megacity
Vehicular emissions comprise a main source of air pollutants, especially particulate matter (PM), which contains toxic compounds. Brazil has been...
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Protecting Forest Structure and Functions for Resilience and Sustainability Concerns in the Changing World
Forest ecosystems are one of the most important ecosystems on earth, and sustainability of the planet heavily relies on diverse ecosystem services...
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Non-Timber Forest Products: Small Matters, Big Significance, and the Complexity of Reaching a Workable Definition for Sustainability
This paper addresses a broad reading of the literature on Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in order to highlight key issues of NTFP management,...
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Challenges and opportunities for achieving Sustainable Development Goals through restoration of Indonesia’s mangroves
Indonesia, the most mangrove-rich nation in the world, has proposed the most globally ambitious mangrove rehabilitation target (600,000 ha) of any...
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REDD+ as a Vehicle for Community-Based Forest Management? Critical Insights from Vietnam
Both the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation program (REDD+) and community-based forest management (CBFM) aim to combat...
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Traditional forest-related knowledge and agrobiodiversity preservation: the case of the chagras in the Indigenous Reserve of Monochoa (Colombia)
Chagras are complex agroforestry systems developed by indigenous populations of the Amazon region based on shifting agriculture, as part of a system...
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Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
The increasing frequency of extreme events, exogenous and endogenous, poses challenges for our societies. The current pandemic is a case in point;...
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Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient
ContextUrban-rural gradients are useful tools when examining the influence of human disturbances on ecological, social and coupled systems, yet the...
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The land and sea routes to 2030: a call for greater attention on all small islands in global environmental policy
Islands have unique vulnerabilities to biodiversity loss and climate change. Current Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement...
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Stakeholders’ engagement platform to identify sustainable pathways for the development of multi-functional agroforestry in Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Social innovation is critical in sha** human-forest relationships and how farmers and scientists engage with each other to design sustainability...
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A community-based conservation approach model. the case of argan grove biosphere reserve cooperatives. in the central western part of morocco
UNESCO designated the Moroccan Argan grove as Argan Grove Biosphere Reserve on December 8th, 1998. Thanks to its precious value, this grove is...
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Measuring Forest Owners’ Environmental Responsibility: Quantifying a Theoretical Approach Based on a Case Study from South-Eastern Estonia
Governing biodiversity conservation on a scattered landscape with varying physical and ownership characteristics can be a difficult challenge....
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Cluster strategy as a public policy option for aquaculture development in Mexico: the case for tilapia
The objective of this paper was to demonstrate that the promotion of aquaculture clusters as a policy option for develo** tilapia aquaculture in...
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Translating the landscape. The reciprocity of representations and other realities
ContextLand use management builds on past perceptions of the landscape. This paper argues for taking the production of scientific knowledge into...
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Drivers of Change in Ecosystems of Chilean Patagonia: Current and Projected Trends
Identifying and analyzing the effects of anthropogenic drivers on ecosystems is a critical step in conservation planning. This chapter identifies and...