Seasonal Tropical Wet, Moist, and Monsoonal Forest

Local‐ and landscape‐scale drivers of terrestrial herbaceous plant diversity along a tropical rainfall gradient in Western Ghats, India

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Violent enclosures, violated livelihoods: environmental and military territoriality in a Philippine frontier

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Historically, agrarian change in the Philippines involved shifts in land enclosure, from colonial and church usurpation to capitalist intensification and protected areas, sparking peasant resistance and the rise of insurgent groups like the New People's Army (NPAs). Currently, in Palawan, military operations against the NPA often conflate peasants and insurgents. These military actions converge with conservation in national park buffer zones, creating restrictive and politically charged spaces for indigenous groups like the Tagbanua. Authorities frequently stigmatize their traditional land use as criminal, such as swidden farming.

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Hope for Threatened Tropical Biodiversity: Lessons from the Philippines

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Automating violence? The anti-politics of ‘smart technology’ in biodiversity conservation

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Biodiversity conservation initiatives, such as the UN's post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (30x30), increasingly use smart technologies. Despite recognizing Indigenous and local rights for successful conservation, these initiatives often neglect customary rights and uses. Smart technologies, like AI, camera traps, and drones, enable new surveillance methods. State, private, and corporate actors, including big tech and BINGOs, actively adopt these tools to enhance data access and form smart governance networks.

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Experimental Science for the ‘Bananapocalypse’: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene

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Recalibrating burdens of blame: Anti-swidden politics and green governance in the Philippine Uplands

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Limits to Indigenous Participation: The Agta and the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, the Philippines

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Co-managers or co-residents? Indigenous peoples’ participation in the management of protected areas: a case study of the Agta in the Philippines

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Comparing Inductive and Deductive Modeling of Land Use Decisions: Principles, a Model and an Illustration from the Philippines

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The system dynamics of forest cover in the developing world: Researcher versus community perspectives

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