Michael K. Poulsen

TL;DR: A typology of monitoring categories, defined by their degree of local participation, is suggested, ranging from no local involvement with monitoring undertaken by professional researchers to an entirely local effort with monitoring undertook by local people, to help develop a protocol for monitoring in developing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that local people can collect forest condition data of comparable quality to trained scientists, at half the cost, and draw on their experience to propose how and where local REDD+ monitoring can be established.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that the key elements of this local resource utilisation monitoring scheme are simplicity, incentive mechanisms, transparency and accountability, and autonomy for local managers, however, the methods may not provide sufficient data on changes in biodiversity values in the high value forests and may need to be augmented by conventional monitoring by scientists funded by national or international institutions.

TL;DR: A simple and cost-effective, field-based biodiversity monitoring system developed specifically for areas where ‘specialist staff’ is lacking and which promotes the participation of local people in the management, stimulates discussions about conservation amongst stakeholders and builds the capacity of park staff and communities in management skills.

TL;DR: A multicountry assessment of tropical resource monitoring by local communities is presented in this paper, with a focus on the monitoring of tropical resources in the field of bio-medical applications.