Economics

Chilli is one of the most important vegetable crops grown all around the world as an essential ingredient in cuisine as vegetables, condiments, spices, pickles and sauces. In recent years chilli was attacked by gall formers causing more economic loss. These gall formers are internal feeders, and...

Climate change exerts an increasingly strong influence on Swiss forest ecosystems. Changes in site conditions and the increased risk of disturbances (droughts, windthrow, storms) have a considerable negative impact on the silvicultural potential of forests. However, these effects can be mitigated...

As deforestation has become an increasingly urgent issue worldwide, global initiatives and national policies have been launched to reduce deforestation. However, existing measures pay little attention to indirect deforestation and consumers' responsibilities, overlooking the different roles played...

Since its inception in 2007 and subsequent Global Forest Expert Panel assessment in 2012, REDD+ has been adopted and implemented across the world...

In the context of environmental change, the adaptive capacity of 50 fishing-dependent households in four villages in Cambodia has been examined. It is found that environmental change impacts rural livelihoods that are dependent on natural resources for their welfare in terms of direct consumption...

This review analyses the major themes extant across 199 research articles published in various peer-reviewed forestry and economics journals between January 2002 and June 2009 on the topic of forest-related environmental markets. The reviewed articles are categorized according to four areas of...

In recent years, progress has been made towards incorporating the sociocultural perspective in the assessment of ecosystem services (ES) to identify the relevant services according to the different needs and perceptions of the populations consulted. New sociocultural assessment methods are being...