Adam Pain

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critique the ways in which the politics of representation and climate science are framed and pursued in the process of climate policy development, and contribute to an understanding of the relative effectiveness of globally framed, generic policy mechanisms in vulnerable and politically volatile contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how REDD+ has been downscaled into the community forestry context and with what implications for CF governance, and they argue that the technical and financial logic of REDD+, has had implications for community forestry governance, risks of co-opting local voices and has contributed to an ongoing commercialisation of community forests, at the cost of the livelihoods of the poorest people.

TL;DR: This article explored how changes in the agrarian economy in the Nepalese mid-Hills have had locally specific effects on forest area, agricultural practices and ecosystem service provision and use.

TL;DR: It is proposed that attention should be given to the nature of the disturbance that may alter forest ecology, the forms of regeneration that follow, and the governance context within which this takes place.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse Nepal's community forestry program and find that forest policies and local institutional practices have historically evolved to regulate forests either as sources of timber or as a means of biodiversity conservation, disregarding food security outcomes for local people.