Brian E. Robinson

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature that connects forest outcomes and land tenure to better understand broad interactions between tenure form, security and forest change, they find 36 publications that link land cover change to tenure conditions while also controlling for other plausibly confounding variables.

TL;DR: This program is a successful example of water users paying upstream landholders to improve water quantity and quality through land use change, and both downstream beneficiaries and upstream providers gain from the program.

TL;DR: Focusing on Hainan Island, a rural, tropical region where expansion of rubber plantations has driven extensive loss of natural forest, a two-pronged strategy is identified that would significantly reduce these trade-offs, enhancing regulating services and biodiversity, while simultaneously diversifying and increasing product provision and improving livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify ecosystem services in several land-use scenarios relative to actual land use change over a 9-year period, in an effort to maintain agricultural production while improving water quality and increasing water quantity in the watershed of the Miyun Reservoir.

TL;DR: A framework is presented that identifies three common ways in which land tenure security can impact human and conservation outcomes, and suggest practical ways to distill tenure and tenure security issues for a given location.