Jean-Laurent Pfund

TL;DR: It is found the landscape approach has been refined in response to increasing societal concerns about environment and development tradeoffs and there has been a shift from conservation-orientated perspectives toward increasing integration of poverty alleviation goals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated four decades of socioeconomic and environmental change in a shifting cultivation landscape in the northern uplands of Laos and found that the complex mosaics of agriculture and forest patches observed in the study area have long constituted key assets for the resilience of local livelihood systems in the face of environmental and socioeconomic risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach for spatial delineation of swidden systems based on landscape mosaics, which can be used in a swidden compatible monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system of a future REDD+ framework.

TL;DR: It is concluded that a combination of social, economic, and spatially explicit assessment methods is necessary to inform land use planning, and any efforts to modify current trends will require clear incentives, such as through carbon finance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the temporal patterns of land-use change inside and outside four protected areas (PA) with one located in each of Laos, Indonesia, Madagascar and Cameroon.