Effective communication key for reaching communities and decision-makers

The expansion of eucalypt plantations constitutes a growing source of landscape transformation in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. In this context, forest planning has failed to design forestry policies that consider the demands of the population as a whole. Among other consequences, in 2018 ...

There is a wide range of potential factors directly and indirectly influencing the decision of households participating in Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD⁺) programs. These potential factors can be grouped into characteristics of household heads, household...

Motivation: Nepal adopted a federal constitution in 2015 that created autonomous local governments across the country. A prime aim was to encourage ordinary people's participation in local decision-making processes. Purpose: To what extent do local governments in rural Nepal adopt informal...

Rural out-migration was a rare socio-economic phenomenon when community forestry began in the 1980s in Nepal. Now, out-migration significantly influences nearly every aspect of rural livelihoods in the country. However, it is unclear how out-migration affects community forestry governance, which is ...

There is a growing movement among conservation practitioners, academics, and resource managers that impactful management systems must be locally-led and account for a diverse range of legal, economic, social, political, and environmental factors. Calls have been made for integrated approaches that...

Digital technologies are increasingly influencing forest landscape restoration practices worldwide. We investigate how digital platforms specifically reconfigure restoration practices, resources, and policy across scales. By analyzing digital restoration platforms, we identify four drivers of...

The Forest Department initially facilitated the Community Forest (CF) program. People participation is more critical, and local people ideally implement and manage the CF. In Myanmar, a stagnant CF user group is one of the issues in CF program success after three decades of CF implementation. In...

Many donor agencies give local residents in developing countries economic incentives to participate in activities related to the conservation of natural resources. The motivation crowding theory predicts that people's intrinsic motivation for conservation will decay after the initial monetary...

Results showed that the variable of household income had a strong degree of association with participation in activities of community forest conservation, and old age households had more opportunities to participate in knowledge dissemination activity than young age households. Men were more...