Compared to more developed countries, the use of land resources is less efficient in China. China’s vast forest area gives it a rich and underutilized carbon sink. This an important way for China achieve goals “carbon peaking” neutrality”, which great significance sustainable development. In past 20 years, has designed series policies serve development forestry sinks, namely sink mechanism (FCS...

Université de la Méditerranée, URMITE UMR 6236, CNRS-IRD, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France, NAFRI, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Government of Lao PDR, Vientiane, Lao PDR, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia, Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Microbiology Laboratory, Maho...

Key points • Regions where community forest enterprises dominate the landscape have low to non-existent deforestation, sustainable forest management, enhancement of carbon stocks, forest conservation and substantial generation of sustainable livelihoods. Corruption and deforestation are also associated with some Mexican forest communities, but these regions have created a sector with hundreds o...

This paper demonstrates how institutions for natural resource management (such as community forestry groups), which appear to be participative, equitable and efficient, can be found lacking on all three counts from a gender perspective. It also examines possible gender differences in social networks, values and motivations. Although there is little to suggest that women are inherently more cons...

Foreign aid can contribute to sustainable forestry in many ways. The goal is to secure forest benefits of the future, without compromising the needs of the present generations. This paper elaborates on forestry aid as it has evolved in the past. Future directions are suggested, referring to short and midterm projects, as well as long-term programmes. Tree planting has worked in the past, and is...

Economic incentive programs are increasingly promoted in the United States and Europe as a method to encourage sustainable forest management practices on privately owned lands. This paper employs spatial analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of one such program created in Illinois through passage of the Illinois Forestry Development Act (IFDA). The Act establishes economic incentives available...