Latin America-South and Central America plus Mexico but excluding the Caribbean Island countries for our purposes in this paper - includes 906 million ha of forest or 24% of the total global forest...

This paper reviews the expectations for forestry’s contribution to rural development – and for its special contributions to the most disadvantaged, to women and the landless users of the forest…

This paper provides an overview of recent forest tenure reform in rural China and a summary of findings from a series of surveys and research papers. The research papers cover several broad themes…

The recent Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China has started the process of devolving forest management rights from village collectives to households since 2003. In this paper, we study the impact…

China began enforcing a system of pollution levies in 1982. However, senior environmental officials expressed doubt that this system was improving the environment and, in 1996, they began to place…

Forest data from the recent period of rapid growth in China show interesting macroeconomic and population impacts on the forest. It makes a theoretical argument for separating forests into managed and…

This paper reviews the state of economic understanding about fuelwood in developing countries. It synthesizes the main results from numerous empirical studies with the intent of identifying…