Journal ArticleDOI
Role of tenure insecurity in deforestation in Ghana's high forest zone
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors examined the effects of land tenure on deforestation in Ghana's high forest zone by examining the nexus between deforestation, land tenure arrangements and local rules in Ghanaian communities and found that the local tenure system contributes to deforestation because the rules governing land holdings create adverse effects.About:
This article is published in Forest Policy and Economics.The article was published on 2012-01-01. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Land tenure & Deforestation.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function
TL;DR: The science underpinning contemporary approaches to forest restoration practice is synthesized and some major approaches for altering structure in degraded forest stands are presented, and approaches for restoration of two key ecosystem processes, fire and flooding are described.
Journal ArticleDOI
Titling indigenous communities protects forests in the Peruvian Amazon.
TL;DR: Analysis of titling in the Peruvian Amazon suggests that awarding formal land titles to local communities can advance forest conservation and reduce both clearing and disturbance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Land tenure security: Revisiting and refining the concept for Sub-Saharan Africa's rural poor
TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of different schools of thought is developed: land tenure security is shown to be understood through (1) economic, (2) legal or (3) adaptation lenses.
Journal ArticleDOI
Implementing forest landscape restoration under the Bonn Challenge: a systematic approach
John A. Stanturf,Michael Kleine,Stephanie Mansourian,John A. Parrotta,Palle Madsen,Promode Kant,J. Burns,Andreas Bolte +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic framework for designing, planning, steering, and monitoring forest landscape restoration (FLR) projects to meet diverse needs in complex socio-ecological systems.
Journal ArticleDOI
Land property rights, agricultural intensification, and deforestation in Indonesia
Christoph Kubitza,Vijesh V. Krishna,Vijesh V. Krishna,Kira Urban,Zulkifli Alamsyah,Matin Qaim +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that plots for which farmers hold formal land titles are cultivated more intensively and are more productive than untitled plots and that farmers located at the historic forest margins often do not hold formal titles, these farmers are less able to intensify and more likely to expand into the surrounding forest land to increase agricultural output.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Land Tenure Security and Investment Incentives: Puzzling Evidence from Burkina Faso
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the traditional village order, where it exists, provides the basic land rights required to stimulate small-scale investment, and they cast doubt on the existence of a systematic influence of land tenure security on investment.
Book
Distribution and ecology of vascular plants in a tropical rain forest: Forest vegetation in Ghana
J. B. Hall,Michael D. Swaine +1 more
TL;DR: Hall and Swaine as discussed by the authors discuss the conservation and wise utilisation of the humid tropical forests, a unique biome, are matters of great concern and importance to millions living within and around these forests and, perhaps, less directly, to the totality of mankind.
Journal ArticleDOI
Land reform policies, the sources of violent conflict, and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine land reform policies and their implications for violent conflict and resource use in the Brazilian Amazon and identify the protagonists (land owners and squatters), derive their incentives to use violence, and show the role of legal inconsistencies as a basis for conflict.
Journal ArticleDOI
Indigenous land rights in sub-Saharan Africa: Appropriation, security and investment demand
Espen Sjaastad,Daniel W. Bromley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the links between rights appropriation, tenure security, and investment demand in sub-Saharan Africa, and offer a conceptual model to show that indigenous tenure may provide equal or higher investment incentives than private rights, and may promote modes of rights appropriation that are productive rather than wasteful.
Journal ArticleDOI
Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier*
TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the need to increase agricultural production, correct spatial imbalances in the distribution of population, exploit frontier lands for reasons of national security and defuse potentially serious political problems resulting from the existing agrarian structure, landlessness, and unemployment.