In this paper, we address the broad question of where to locate authority for tropical biodiversity conservation. In so doing, we advance four claims. First, the current fashion for CBNRM overreaches the indisputable place of local communities in tropical conservation efforts. An unfortunate...

We offer this comment on recent model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management in order to emphasize the complexity of the subject and to qualify the usefulness of her method. Albers structures her model in a highly asymmetric manner in favor of preservation. We contend that the...

Tropical-biodiversity conservation has changed radically over the past generation. Until the early 1980s, conventional wisdom held that central governments should manage all conservation efforts in developing countries. Over the past 15 years or so, scholars, conservation practitioners, and...