Working Paper

• Agricultural industries
• Forests and forestry
• Land use

Working Paper

There is a growing evidence suggesting that the ecological degradation in Africa is accelerating faster than the region's economic decline. More seriously, trees in Sub-Saharan Africa are being felled 30 times as fast as they are being replaced...

• Environmental policy
• Forests and forestry
• Sustainable development

Book Chapter

Part of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

• Sustainable development
• Foreign aid
• Climate change

Book Chapter

Part of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

• Foreign aid
• Forests and forestry
• REDD+

Research Brief

Forest degradation remains a leading environmental problem, given the scale of forest loss and the crucial role of forests to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena, especially REDD+, are...

• Climate change
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Forests and forestry

Working Paper

Foreign aid can contribute to sustainable forestry in many ways. The goal is to secure forest benefits of the future, without compromising the needs of the present generations. This paper elaborates on forestry aid as it has evolved in the past...

• Agriculture
• Conservation of natural resources
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Book Chapter

Part of Book Group Behaviour and Development

• Cost effectiveness
• Equality and inequality
• Forests and forestry

Working Paper

This study examines how, why, and under what conditions marginalized women of customary communities can contribute and gain access to the benefits of the social forestry programme. We found that customary communities’ dependence on forest resources...

• Women
• Forests and forestry
• Culture

Working Paper

This paper addresses the economic impact of forest management on gender and food security of rural poor in Africa. The analyses reveal that deforestation places major demands on women and children’s time, limiting their opportunities to obtain an...

• Food security
• Forests and forestry
• Poor

Working Paper

This paper presents a framed field experiment on ecological altruism in Mindoro, Philippines. Behavioural differences between ethnic groups in Mindoro—the Tagalogs and the Mangyans—were investigated. We designed a two-part donation task (i.e...

• Field experiment
• Forests and forestry
• Altruism

Working Paper

We use the case of the timber industry in Myanmar to analyse how national regulatory frameworks and international ecological discourses affect forest management and small businesses. The state plays two roles in the timber industry in Myanmar: it is...

• Timber
• Wood
• Forests and forestry

Working Paper

The European Union (EU) has set targets for gradually reducing greenhouse gas emissions through 2050. One of the instruments involved is the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, which specifies a 20 per cent renewable energy target for the EU by 2020...

• Forests and forestry
• Renewable energy
• State governments

Working Paper

Since 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world. From 1999 to 2003, over 7.2 million hectares of agricultural land were...

• Conservation of natural resources
• Farm produce
• Forests and forestry

Working Paper

Forests as stocks, sinks and sources of carbon have become a vital issue in global politics, along with the Kyoto Protocol of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. This publication, encompassing nine chapters by twelve authors from six...

• Environmental policy
• Forests and forestry
• Global warming

Working Paper

The paper begins by offering a quick glance of the Nordic economies and of some aspects of their economic growth performance and natural resource dependence since 1970. Thereafter, it reviews some of the main symptoms of the Dutch disease, and then...

• Economic growth
• Forests and forestry
• Natural resources