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The ecology of peace: preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates

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Silvopastoral Systems and their Contribution to Improved Resource Use and Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Latin America

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Economic and conservation potential of bird-watching tourism in postconflict Colombia

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Geographic overlaps between priority areas for forest carbon-storage efforts and those for delivering peacebuilding programs: implications for policy design

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Forest-based emmission reductions, such as REDD+, have increasingly been promoted yet the conversation around these initiatives rarely consider opportunities outside the environmental sector. This paper examines one of these opportunities: the interaction between carbon-storage and peacebuilding. Using Colombia as a case-study, the authors investigate the ways in which forest carbon-storage and peacebuilding influence conservation and conflict.

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Consequences of the Armed Conflict, Forced Human Displacement, and Land Abandonment on Forest Cover Change in Colombia: A Multi-scaled Analysis

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Livestock and Deforestation Central America in the 1980s and 1990s: A Policy Perspective

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The logic of livestock and deforestation in Amazonia

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Increasing local capacities in rural Panama

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While Panama continues to have high levels of biodiversity, the country loss large swaths of forest between 1950 to 2000 primarily due to the expansion and intensification of cattle ranching. Drawing from their work with local ranchers, the authors review the emergence of cattle ranching in Panama along with potential solutions and unique approaches to halting these trends.

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Sustainable ranching and restoring forests in agricultural landscapes, Panama

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Artisan Non-Timber Forest Products in Darien Province in Panama: The Importance of Context

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Watershed Management for Ecosystem Services in Human Dominated Landscapes of the Neotropics

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A Comparison of Governance Challenges in Forest Restoration in Paraguay’s Privately-Owned Forests and Madagascar’s Co-managed State Forests

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Evaluation of a rural development project in Southwest Cochabamba, Bolivia, and its agroforestry activities involving Polylepis besseri and other native species – a decade of lessons learned

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A Multicountry Assessment of Tropical Resource Monitoring by Local Communities

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The study compared data collected on status and trends collected independently by local community members and trained scientists for 63 taxa and five types of resource use in 34 tropical forest sites over 2.5 years so examine the assumption that local people are less objective than external scientists when monitoring natural resources.

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Socio-Economic Indicators for Forest Restoration Projects

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Burning biodiversity: Fuelwood harvesting causes forest degradation in human-dominated tropical landscapes

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Conserving Tropical Tree Diversity and Forest Structure: The Value of Small Rainforest Patches in Moderately-Managed Landscapes

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Due to deforestation and degradation in rainforests, there has been an increase in small forest patches yet there is limited understanding of this structures contribution to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors of this study attempt to answer this question through studying a a moderately managed landscape in the tropics of Mexic

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Trade-offs in nature tourism: contrasting parcel-level decisions with landscape conservation planning

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Combining ecological, social and technical criteria to select species for forest restoration

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Lattice-work corridors for climate change: a conceptual framework for biodiversity conservation and social-ecological resilience in a tropical elevational gradient

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