Die internationale Staatengemeinschaft hat im Dezember 2015 in Paris ein globales Klimaabkommen verabschiedet, welches ab 2020 in Kraft treten und alle Mitgliedstaaten zu verbindlichen Emissionsreduktionen verpflichten soll. Im Vorlauf der Verhandlungen wurden von den Staaten nationale...

The Harapan region is governed by a web of regulations. The corresponding allocation of land is informed by the demands of the international market and Indonesia's policy to supply it with the products needed. Thus, human interactions with the rainforest transformation systems are largely...

Since the mid-2000s, a global effort has been made to tackle deforestation and forest degradation in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve biological diversity. On the basis of agreements within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an international forest...

This paper is a qualitative case study of two land acquisition cases highlighting the empirical effect of legal reforms on land use policy over time in Indonesia. Under the Suharto regime, land acquisition in the public interest was often coercive, with the government determining one-sided...

This study evaluates the effects of two environmental policy instruments on the adoption of native tree planting in oil palm plantations. The first instrument is an information campaign on tree planting in oil palm. The second instrument combines the information campaign with a structural...

Spatially-explicit simulation models are commonly used to study complex ecological and socio-economic research questions. Often these models depend on detailed input data, such as initial land-cover maps to set up model simulations. Here we present the landscape generator EFFortS-LGraf that...