selected publications
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article
- Forest tenure and the Sustainable Development Goals – A critical view. Forest Policy and Economics. 120:102294. 2020
- Designing for engagement: A Realist Synthesis Review of how context affects the outcomes of multi-stakeholder forums on land use and/or land-use change. World Development. 127:104753. 2020
- Forestry Decentralization in the Context of Global Carbon Priorities: New Challenges for Subnational Governments. FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. 3. 2020
- Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries. Land Use Policy. 104461. 2020
- Learning through practice? Learning from the REDD+ demonstration project, Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) in Indonesia. Land Use Policy. 91:104285. 2020
- Forest-based climate mitigation: Lessons from REDD+ implementation 2019
- Unrelenting games: Multiple negotiations and landscape transformations in the tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. World Development. 117:196-210. 2019
- Participatory Monitoring in Forest Communities to Improve Governance, Accountability and Women’s Participation. Small-scale Forestry. 18:165-187. 2019
- Introduction: REDD+ enters its second decade 2018
- Inter-sectoral and multilevel coordination alone do not reduce deforestation and advance environmental justice: Why bold contestation works when collaboration fails. Environment and Planning C-government and Policy. 36:1437-1457. 2018
- Gender lessons for climate initiatives: A comparative study of REDD+ impacts on subjective wellbeing. World Development. 108:86-102. 2018
- Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future. World Development. 106:376-392. 2018
- Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in REDD+ and conservation projects. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 50:314-324. 2018
- Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for REDD+. Land Use Policy. 72:510-522. 2018
- Global variation in the cost of increasing ecosystem carbon. Nature Climate Change. 8:38-+. 2018
- Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: The Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru. Environmental Management. 62:98-116. 2018
- Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories. Womens Studies International Forum. 65:37-46. 2017
- Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America. Womens Studies International Forum. 65:53-59. 2017
- Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards. Ecology and Society. 22:2. 2017
- Can conservation funding be left to carbon finance? Evidence from participatory future land use scenarios in Peru, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Mexico. Environmental Research Letters. 12:14015. 2017
- Guinea pig or pioneer: Translating global environmental objectives through to local actions in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia’s REDD+ pilot province. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 42:68-81. 2017
- The Challenge of ‘Territory’: Weaving the Social Fabric of Indigenous Communities in Nicaragua's Northern Caribbean Autonomous Region. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 35:322-337. 2016
- Multilevel governance challenges in transitioning towards a national approach for REDD+: evidence from 23 subnational REDD+ initiatives. The International Journal of the Commons. 9:909-931. 2015
- Formalizing Indigenous Commons: The Role of ‘Authority’ in the Formation of Territories in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and the Philippines. World Development. 70:228-238. 2015
- Formalization and Collective Appropriation of Space on Forest Frontiers: Comparing Communal and Individual Property Systems in the Peruvian and Ecuadoran Amazon. Society & Natural Resources. 28:496-512. 2015
- The role of women in early REDD+ implementation: lessons for future engagement. International Forestry Review. 17:43-65. 2015
- How are REDD+ Proponents Addressing Tenure Problems? Evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam. World Development. 55:37-52. 2014
- Linking forest tenure reform, environmental compliance, and incentives: lessons from REDD+ initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon. World Development. 55:53-67. 2014
- Decentralization and forest-related conflicts in Latin America. Forest Policy and Economics. 33:80-86. 2013
- Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 23:678-689. 2013
- The Dynamic Forest Commons of Central America: New Directions for Research 2013
- Social safeguards and co-benefits in REDD+: a review of the adjacent possible. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 4:654-660. 2012
- Decentralisation and devolution in Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Autonomous Region: Natural resources and indigenous peoples rights. The International Journal of the Commons. 6:179-199. 2012
- Reducing REDD risks: affirmative policy on an uneven playing field. The International Journal of the Commons. 6:233-254. 2012
- The Recognition of Forest Rights in Latin America: Progress and Shortcomings of Forest Tenure Reforms. Society & Natural Resources. 25:556-571. 2012
- Enhancing Forest Tenure Reforms Through More Responsive Regulations. Conservation and Society. 10:103. 2012
- Forest tenure reform: New resource rights for forest-based communities?. Conservation and Society. 10:77. 2012
- Forest tenure reform in the age of climate change: Lessons for REDD+. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 21:540-549. 2011
- An Introduction to Forest Governance, People and REDD+ in Latin America: Obstacles and Opportunities 2011
- Making the 'rules of the game': constituting territory and authority in Nicaragua's indigenous communities.. Land Use Policy. 27:1143-1152. 2010
- New Rights for Forest-Based Communities? Understanding Processes of Forest Tenure Reform. International Forestry Review. 12:78-96. 2010
- The “Demonization” of Rainforest Migrants, or: What Conservation Means to Poor Colonist Farmers 2010
- Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance Regimes. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 33:213-239. 2008
- The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field. Sustainability Science. 2:189-204. 2007
- The Effects of Forestry Decentralization on Access to Livelihood Assets. The Journal of Environment & Development. 16:251-268. 2007
- Trends in Latin American Forestry Decentralisations: Legal Frameworks, Municipal Governments and Forest Dependent Groups. International Forestry Review. 9:734-747. 2007
- Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources. World Development. 34:1864-1886. 2006
- Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens: an introduction. The European Journal of Development Research. 16:1-25. 2004
- Formal Decentralisation and the Imperative of Decentralisation ‘from Below’: A Case Study of Natural Resource Management in Nicaragua. The European Journal of Development Research. 16:55-70. 2004
- Decentralisation and forest management in Latin America: towards a working model. Public Administration and Development. 23:211-226. 2003
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editorial article
- Learning from REDD+: a response to Fletcher et al.. Conservation Biology. 31:718-720. 2017
- Reframing Community Forestry to Manage the Forest–Farm Interface. Small-scale Forestry. 12:5-13. 2013
- Special Issue: Taking stock of community forestry Foreword. Small-scale Forestry. 12:1-3. 2013
- Forest Governance, Decentralization and REDD plus in Latin America. Forests. 1:250-254. 2010