Social and ecological synergy: Local rulemaking, forest livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6024, 2011, Pages 1606-1608

  Persha, Lauren ^a   Agrawal, Arun ^a   Chhatre, Ashwini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REGULATORY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FOREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUTH ASIA;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ASIA, WESTERN; BIODIVERSITY; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; HUMANS; INCOME; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WOOD;

EAST AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 79953149881     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1199343     Document Type: Article

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23. We thank E. Ostrom, T. Hayes, two anonymous reviewers, and members of the Development, Sustainable Livelihoods and Conservation (DESULICO) group for comments on an earlier draft of this paper, and R. Kornak and J. England for assistance with data cleaning. We gratefully acknowledge the many researchers affiliated with IFRI as Collaborating Research Centers for their data contributions and ongoing involvement with the IFRI network. This work was funded by the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation grants BCS-0703073 and CNH-0709545, and a University of Michigan OVPR/Rackham grant for an Annual Institute on Joint Outcomes related to Sustainability.