The effect of announcing future institutional change is investigated in three different contexts: a gains frame, a loss frame, and a loss frame with risk. The institutional change is the transition...

Contractual relationships regarding land tenure in agriculture are diverse. From formal systems such as landowner and fixed rent, sharecropping emerges as an alternative in which the owner of the land…

Resumen El libro describe el desarrollo normativo del ordenamiento territorial y ambiental del país y las principales líneas jurisprudenciales que se han desarrollado en los últimos 25 años. Muestra…

Resumen. Las brechas estructurales y los estereotipos de género muestran y acrecientan la vulnerabilidad de las mujeres en Colombia. Su situación, tras el choque por la pandemia de Covid-19, es hoy…

RFF Fellow Marc Hafstead and University Fellow Lawrence Goulder Receive Award for Best Paper

The world economy is undergoing a period of structural and technological transformation, sometimes described as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. At the centre of this is the digitalisation of…

Assessing progress on sustainability in fisheries presents an urgent need to evaluate how management reforms interact with fishing communities to not only assure the health of the fish stock, but also…

Measures of social difference such as the Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization Index (ELF) and Polarization are commonly used proxies for community heterogeneity. They are used to “explain” collective…

In the remote Himalayan districts of Pithoragarh, India and Baitadi, Nepal, households are dependent on agriculture and forests for their livelihood. In this paper, we examine poverty–forest linkages…