Carbonizing forest governance: Analyzing the consequences of REDD+ for multilevel forest governance Marjanneke J. Vijge Despite the fifty years of global action to combat deforestation and forest degradation, the world is still losing its forests at great scale. A recent governance initiative that has raised high expectations to address global defo...
The rising global population has increased the demand for food, renewable energy and other materials. Yet at the same time to meet this demand requires land and the amount of available land is finite. Considering the importance of land and ecosystems in providing benefits for human, I conducted four independent research on the socio-economic and bi...
Duurzaam bosbeheer (Sustainable Forest Management: SFM) is van groot belang voor de duurzame instandhouding van het bosareaal met de bijbehorende biodiversiteit en ecosysteem diensten zoals hout productie, opslag van koolstof en recreatie. Voor de bescherming van bossen en functies zijn in diverse internationale fora afspraken gemaakt over SFM. Ned...
In Europe, forests have been expanding in terms of area and timber stock over the past 50 years and subsequently they have acted as a carbon sink while they have been recovering from previous eras of deforestation. National adaptation strategies to climate change and other policies have been formulated in many European countries to harness the pote...
The issue of what drives and sustains collective action is pertinent to natural resource management, given the continuing depletion of public goods around the world. The issue is especially important for forestry. Since the early 1980s, forest devolution has become a major trend in forestry reforms in the developing world. It is held that involving...
Interest in Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) has grown with increasing awareness of tropical forest deforestation and amplified recognition for the need to add value to forest resources. However, NTFPs continue to be regarded by many as marginal goods incapable of competing with timber as a viable economic alternative use of tropical and subtropi...
Governing Congo Basin Forests in a Changing Climate: Actors, Discourses and Institutions for Adaptation and Mitigation OA Somorin Abstract The thesis deals with the central question of the governance processes of making tropical forests deliver climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes of sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity conservation a...
This thesis deals with forest governance in Ethiopia. Forest governance is an important subject to study both as an emerging field of scientific analysis and as a means to understand and tackle the practical challenges facing forest resource management and conservation. Forests are one of the vital renewable resources that support the livelihoods o...
Het kader van ontwikkelingen rond bos wordt steeds meer bepaald op EU niveau, of door snelle mondiale ontwikkelingen, vanuit een steeds diversere set van beleidsterreinen. Om hierop goed te anticiperen is deze agenda bos en hout internationaal opgezet, die uitdagingen en behoeften weergeeft op drie vlakken: internationaal, bio-economie en bedrijfsv...
cum laude graduation (with distinction)
