Development

BOGOR, Indonesia (5 November 2013) — As the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw approach, it’s time to take stock of the international development framework within which they are contextualized. Here, five key questions are considered: 1. The Background – who was calling for Sustainable Development Goals and why? In 2015, the anti-poverty targets and indicators […]

It is difficult to convince a person who has spent their entire life in internally displaced persons camps to participate in environmental conservation activities. Orphans growing up during war and relying only on food rations. Traumatized people returning home and looking at trees only in terms of the products they can gain from them. People […]

Well-intentioned plans are too often abandoned and forgotten when villagers are left out of the land-use planning process. Conversely, by placing a 3D map (complete with familiar landmarks) in the middle of a table and asking residents what they would do as a developer, conservationist or village leader, it suddenly becomes easier to incorporate local […]

NAFRI; IRD; CIFOR. 2012

Watts, J.D.; Vihemaki, H.; Rantala, S.; Boissiere, M. 2011

Pacheco, P.; Aguilar-Støen, M.; Borner, J.; Etter, A.; Putzel, L.; Vera-Diaz, M.D.C. 2011