There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction and environmental protection. It seeks to improve the diagnosis of forest problems and...

Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt durch die Kombination quantitative und qualitativer Methoden, dass die Zunahme der Wälder in China durch eine Reihe miteinander verbundener Entwicklungsschritte und -muster begründet liegt, welche in ihrer Ausprägung von lokalen Bedingungen bestimmt werden. Als...

The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is designed to compensate governments of tropical countries for their efforts to conserve forests. Food insecure countries that are specialized in agriculture and have weak...

Recognition of the importance of forests for local livelihoods, biodiversity and the climate system has spurred a growing interest in understanding the factors that drive forest-cover change. Forest transitions, the change from net deforestation to net reforestation, may follow different...

Some unusual combinations of predictor values in multivariate regression often influence tampering with the output, and filtering those observations becomes the trickiest and most challenging task. This concern is prevalent and predominant in ecological domains, especially in soil samples, as...

This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the links between the politics of forest and struggles over environmental data in Sweden. The term politics of data is used to analyse data production orientated to productivity-oriented forestry and the use of digital technologies that allow ordinary...

Das LaForeT Projekt (Landscape Forestry in the Tropics) wurde vom Thünen-Institut für Waldwirtschaft in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Partnern in Ecuador, den Philippinen und Sambia in den Jahren 2016 bis 2023 durchgeführt. Das Projekt analysiert Auswirkungen von Politikinstrumenten auf die...