This paper argues that tropical forests have become objects of climate and environ-mental governance. It begins with an analysis of the REDD mechanism in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which combines legal, market and scien-tific rationalities with measurement, reporting and...

Researchers and practitioners often use rapid rural appraisal (RRA) methods to secure a representative, accurate, and cost-effective portrayal of wealth rankings among rural populations. This paper proposes an asset possession-based approach to developing RRA wealth rankings and portrayals of...