American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland
The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.
The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.
The authors investigate how land cover, land use, and protected area management affects communities around a forest reserve in the Philippines. They conclude that incorporating local livelihoods into forest conservation strategies results in a measure of sustainability and positively impacts the socioeconomic well-being of communities near the protected area.
The authors use the case study approach to provide insights into how an indigenous population, the Baka in Cameroon, face barriers to participation in policy making, hindering recognition of rights to traditional forestland.
Synthesizing ethnographic case studies from mainland Southeast Asia, the authors critically review the implementation of REDD+, a UN project to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. They argue that REDD+ maps onto local power structures and political economies in its implementation, rendering it blunt as a tool for change.
Through a collection of 445 photographs taken from precisely the same places at intervals of months, years and decades,Die Zeit des Waldes [The forest over time] offers a stop-action look at the diversity of transformations within Germany’s forests.
Douglas Sheil reviews the book Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity by John A. Parrotta and Ronald L. Trosper.
Jennifer Baka looks at energy cultivation and energy security in India through an analysis of two energy development programs.
Rya Forest is a nature reserve in Gothenburg, Sweden, and historically an area of both appreciation and conflict.
This article investigates forest policy in the period of dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece.
When the mystical marketing of Himalayan medicines elides the social and ecological worlds of Himalayan meadows.