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Voluntary certification design choices influence producer participation, stakeholder acceptance, and environmental sustainability in commodity agriculture sectors in tropical forest landscapes

Winters, Paul, Jsuan-Wen Kuo, Chanisa Niljinda, Ben Chen, Helena N. Alves-Pinto, Melisa Ongun, Stefani Daryanto, and Peter Newton. “Voluntary Certification Design Choices Influence Producer Participation, Stakeholder Acceptance, and Environmental Sustainability in Commodity Agriculture Sectors in Tropical Forest Landscapes.” Journal of …

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Governing agriculture-forest landscapes to achieve climate change mitigation

Agrawal, Arun, E. Wollenberg, and L. Persha. November 2014. Governing Agriculture-Forest Landscapes to Achieve Climate Change. Global Environmental Change. Vol. 29, pp. (270-80). Abstract This introduction to the special section on “Governing Agriculture-Forest Landscapes to Achieve Climate Change Mitigation” reviews …

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Elite capture risk and mitigation in decentralized forest governance regimes

Persha, Lauren and Krister Andersson. January 2014. Elite Capture Risk and Mitigation in Decentralized Forest Governance Regimes. Global Environmental Change. Vol. 24, pp. 265-76. Abstract Recent scholarship focuses on elite capture as a driver of social inequality and a source …

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Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

Nolte, Cristoph, Arun Agrawal, Kirsten M. Silvius, and Britaldo S. Soares-Filcho. 2013. Governance Regime and Location Influence Avoided Deforestation Success of Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. …

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Management effectiveness indicators show only weak associations with the success of protected areas in avoiding fires in the Amazon

Agrawal, A., and C. Nolte. 2012. Linking Management Effectiveness Indicators to Observed Effects of Protected Areas on Fire Occurrence in the Amazon Rainforest. Abstract Management-effectiveness scores are used widely by donors and implementers of conservation projects to prioritize, track, and …

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Participation of user groups in forest governance is strongly associated with social-ecological win-win outcomes

Persha, L., A. Agrawal, A. Chhatre. 2011. Social and ecological synergy: Local rulemaking, forest livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation. Science 331:1606-1608 Abstract Causal pathways to achieve social and ecological benefits from forests are unclear, because there are few systematic multi-country empirical …

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Most existing work on resource commons has been inattentive to the multiple outcomes of commons management

Agrawal, A., C. Benson. 2011. Common property theory and resource governance institutions strengthening explanations of multiple outcomes. Environmental Conservation 38:199-210 Abstract Different strategies to govern resource commons generate outcomes that can be assessed along different dimensions, in terms of the …

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