Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Conflict Management, Decentralization and Agropastoralism in Dryland West Africa
This paper reports on a four-site study conducted in the Sahelian zone of Niger.
Evidence of Payments for Ecosystem Services as a mechanism for supporting biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods
Abstract: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) represent a mechanism for promoting sustainable management of ecosystem services, and can also be useful for supporting rural development.
Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program
We investigate a Mexican federal program that compensates landowners for forest protection.
The Ecological Society of America: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Issue 9, Volume 8, November 2010
Wildlife-friendly eco-labels.
Getting the science right when paying for nature's services
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) mechanisms leverage economic and social incentives to shape how people influence natural processes and achieve conservation and sustainability goals.
Global Environmental Change: Does secure land tenure save forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation
Deforestation and degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political factors.
Land-use Change Modeling in a Brazilian Indigenous Reserve: Construction of a Reference Scenario for the Suruí REDD Project
Abstract: Interactions of indigenous peoples with the surrounding non-indigenous society are often the main sources of social and environmental changes in indigenous lands.
Livelihood Transitions and the Changing Nature of Farmer-Herder Conflict in Sahelian West Afirca
Using the cases of four rural communities in Niger, this study adopts an 'access to resources' framework to analyse the causal connections among: rural peoples' livelihood strategies, everyday social relations of production, perceptions of social groups' identities, and the potential for farmer-herder conflict.
The New Pastoral Development Paradigm: Engaging the Realities of Property Institutions and Livestock Mobility in Dryland Africa
This article focuses on a less explored reason for the failure new understandings to slow or reverse the erosion of pastoral production systems.
Paying for wolves in Solapur, India and Wisconsin, USA: Comparing compensation rules and practice to understand the goals and politics of wolf conservation
With growing pressure for conservation to pay its way, the merits of compensation for wildlife damage must be understood in diverse socio-ecological settings.
