Biodiversity in locally managed lands / / edited by Jeffrey Sayer, Chris Margules.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sayer, Jeffrey,; Margules, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 156 pages) :; illustrations

Decentralizing natural resource management to local people, especially in tropical countries, has become a trend. We review recent evidence for the impacts of decentralization on the biodiversity values of forests and forested landscapes, which encompass most of the biodiversity of the tropics. Few...

Table of Contents

• About the Special Issue Editors .v
• Preface to "Biodiversity in Locally Managed Lands".vii
• Jeffrey Sayer and Chris Margules Biodiversity in Locally Managed Lands Reprinted from: Land 2017, 6(2), 41; doi: 10.3390/land6020041.1
• John Terborgh and Carlos A. Peres Do Community-Managed Forests Work? A Biodiversity Perspective Reprinted from: Land 2017, 6(2), 22; doi: 10.3390/land6020022.6
• Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Can Community Forests Be Compatible With Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia? Reprinted from: Land 2017, 6(1), 21; doi: 10.3390/land6010021.13
• James D. Langston, Rebecca A. Riggs, Yazid Sururi, Terry Sunderland and Muhammad Munawir Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Reprinted from: Land 2017, 6(1), 12; doi: 10.3390/land6010012.30
• Sharif A. Mukul and Narayan Saha Conservation Benefits of Tropical Multifunctional Land-Uses in and Around a Forest Protected Area of Bangladesh Reprinted from: Land 2017, 6(1), 2; doi: 10.3390/land6010002 44
• Shogoro Fujiki, Ryota Aoyagi, Atsushi Tanaka, Nobuo Imai, Arif Data Kusma, Yuyun Kurniawan, Ying Fah Lee, John Baptist Sugau, Joan T. Pereira, Hiromitsu Samejima and Kanehiro Kitayama Large-Scale Mapping of Tree-Community Composition as a Surrogate of Forest Degradation in Bornean Tropical Rain Forests Reprinted from: Land 2016, 5(4), 45; doi: 10.3390/land5040045.56
• Richard Thackway and David Freudenberger Accounting for the Drivers that Degrade and Restore Landscape Functions in Australia Reprinted from: Land 2016, 5(4), 40; doi: 10.3390/land5040040.72
• Ian Hodge and William M. Adams Short-Term Projects versus Adaptive Governance: Conflicting Demands in the Management of Ecological Restoration Reprinted from: Land 2016, 5(4), 39; doi: 10.3390/land5040039.92
• Mel Galbraith, Barbara Bollard-Breen and David R. Towns The Community-Conservation Conundrum: Is Citizen Science the Answer? Reprinted from: Land 2016, 5(4), 37; doi: 10.3390/land5040037.109
• Nandini Velho, Rachakonda Sreekar andWilliam F. Laurance Terrestrial Species in Protected Areas and Community-Managed Lands in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India Reprinted from: Land 2016, 5(4), 35; doi: 10.3390/land5040035.125
• Jeffrey Sayer, Chris Margules and Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Will Biodiversity Be Conserved in Locally-Managed Forests? Reprinted from: Land 2017, 6(1), 6; doi: 10.3390/land6010006 136
• Nigel Dudley, Adrian Phillips, Thora Amend, Jessica Brown and Sue Stolton Evidence for Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Landscapes Reprinted from: Land 2016, 5(4), 38; doi: 10.3390/land5040038.145.