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    Does Land Tenure Insecurity Drive Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?

    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    Brazil, United States of America
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Gender
    Land Conflicts
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    deforestation
    land
    land tenure
    tenure insecurity

    The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem to legitimize land encroachments. The latter is mainly the result of land tenure insecurity which is a key characteristic of this region and results from a long history of interactions between rural social unrest and land reforms or land laws. A simple model is developed where strategic interactions between farmers lead to excessive deforestation.

  2. Library Resource

    Land use and land cover dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon: understanding human-environmental interactions

    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Brazil
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Forest Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    deforestation
    geographical information systems
    land-use planning

    Land use and land cover dynamics are a result of the interactions between human activities and the environment. The objective of this thesis is to analyze Amazonian land use and land cover pattern dynamics in order to identify the underlying system dynamics. By combining empirical statistical models and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, feedbacks in the human-environment system can be explored to identify more sustainable development pathways.

  3. Library Resource
    Remembering Elinor Ostrom

    Remembering Elinor Ostrom

    Her Work and its Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Conservation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

    Reports & Research
    April, 2014
    Eritrea, Kenya, Mexico, Canada, Mongolia, India, Global
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    forest conservation
    land conservation
    sustainable land management
    natural resources management
    common rights
    commons
    communal ownership
    common property

    This special issue of Policy Matters focuses on the outreach and impact of Dr. Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking research on common property (or commons) theory. Her work was instrumental in shaping contemporary analyses of resource management and conservation, especially at a local level. This collection of research papers, essays, commentaries, and songs build upon her work and provide case studies demonstrating the practical application of her theoretical contributions. 

  4. Library Resource

    What are ‘Integrated Landscape Approaches’ and how effectively have they been implemented in the tropics: a systematic map protocol

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    Central America
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    climate change
    forest conservation
    forest land
    forest management plans
    land governance
    land use
    local communities
    natural resources management

    This protocol will describe the methodology to be employed for a systematic map that will chart the development of the landscape approach theory, consolidate and synthesize existing definitions, and identify where and how these approaches have been implemented in the humid and dry tropics.

  6. Library Resource

    Forest Citizenship in Acre, Brazil

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Brazil, South America
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation
    forest law
    land management
    forest land
  10. Library Resource

    Analysis of REDD+ policy networks in Peru

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    Peru, South America
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation
    climate change

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