Environmental degradation, accelerating climate change, persistent rural poverty, and biodiversity loss represent some of the most pressing challenges confronting the global community today. These intertwined crises have intensified the urgent need for sustainable natural resource management (NRM) and rural development...
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria represents one of the most ecologically significant yet environmentally vulnerable ecosystems globally. Since the onset of oil and gas exploration in the 1950s, the region has experienced severe environmental degradation manifested through oil spills, gas flaring, deforestation, habita...
Nepal has spent more than four decades developing one of the world's most recognized community forestry (CF) programs, handing day to day forest management responsibilities to local forest user groups. More recently, forests located within the buffer zones of protected areas (PAs) have been reclassified as Buffer Zon...
Reversing biodiversity loss is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Designating strictly protected areas (SPAs) is recognized as particularly effective for biodiversity conservation. “Strict” refers to a high level of protection (restriction of human activities) and a full implementation of the protection....
Global biodiversity policy increasingly depends on community-led conservation, yet the comparative evidence base contains little from South Asia’s frontier regions. This article asks how a long-running grassroots organisation in a politically and ecologically marginal region combined community mobilisation, vernacular...
The paradigm of the “resilient city” has been widely adopted by urban governments and global agendas. However, far from being a neutral tool for sustainability, this discourse has often been co-opted to legitimize neoliberal urban development, masking processes of green gentrification, ecological fragmentation, and com...
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