Mangrove forest is one of the Ciletuh Bay landscapes tourist attractions as a part of Ciletuh-Palabuhanratu Geopark, Sukabumi Regency, West Java Province. Previous studies have reported severe damage to mangrove forests due to overexploitation by residents. This study aims to determine the economic ...

China has endeavored to devolve collective forests to individual households or user groups in the past decades. However, few studies have explored the community-level institutional selection process in the forest devolution reforms. Based on a longitudinal case study in Fujian province, this study...

This study assessed the value of forest resources to rural households in forest-fringe communities in the Northern Region of Ghana. It also identified the factors that influence the amount of compensation (in terms of money) households were willing to accept to forego or limit the use of forest...

Forests are unique resources and environments because, in general, they provide many benefits. Changing the function of forest areas to other functions is inseparable from economic development. As a developing country, Indonesia's economy is still dependent on natural resources to support its...

The Protected Areas in Latin America, beyond the preservation of nature, have been central for government control over spatial resources. The weaknesses of the domestic bureaucracies in this region results in a gap between their formal rules and the expected outcomes. Forest management is an issue...

Forestry has been identified by the Vietnamese government as an increasingly important factor contributing to the agricultural and rural development programs. This paper examines differences in demo-graphic and economic characteristics of forest plantation and non-forest-plantation households in...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been recognized as an analysis of the impacts that a project can impose on the environment, with the purpose of balancing the positive and negative impacts of the project. Forest road construction is one of the costliest and most important projects that its ...

This paper examines how decentralized forest governance policy led to new patterns of wealth accumulation in villages as a result of economic opportunities created by wood-charcoal production and trade in rural Senegal. In the region studied, the locus for development through decentralized...

Broad social changes are reflected in the forest owner structure, which has become increasingly diverse both demographically and in terms of objectives and values. This naturally also impacts forest owners' interest towards using their forests as well as to their interest in purchasing various ...

This study analyzes the success of implementing a conservation village in obtaining environmental support in forest management in the Bukit Barisan National Park. This research uses a qualitative case study method, reinforced by a desk review of relevant research literature. Interviews and focus...