The PCLG Digest Journal Archive

A complete bibliography of articles that appear in the PCLG Digest. Please click on a theme below to link you to relevant articles.

Alternative livelihoods

Biodiversity and development

Commercial interests and conservation

Community based conservation

Community based governance/management

Community based fisheries management

Community based forest management

Community based wildlife management

Conflict and coexistence

Conflict and conservation

Conservation and development strategies

Conservation enterprise

Conservation governance

Culture, religion, tradition and conservation

Displacement, dispossession and conservation

Ecosystem services and people

Environmental justice

Equitable / Just conservation

Financial incentive mechanisms

Forests and livelihoods

Gender and conservation

Health and conservation

Human rights and conservation

Human wellbeing

Human wildlife conflict

Hunting (subsistence, traditional, trophy)

Land rights

Methodological approaches

Politics and conservation

Poverty and conservation

Resettement and conservation

Social impacts of PAs

Sustainable use

Traditional knowledge

Wildlife trade (legal and illegal)

Alternative livelihoods

Sene-Harper A, Matarrita-Cascante D and L Larson (2018) Leveraging local livelihood strategies to support conservation and development in West Africa. Environmental Development.

Biodiversity and development

Bull J, Baker J, Griffiths V, Jones J and E Milner-Gulland (2018) Ensuring No Net Loss for people as well as biodiversity: good practice principles. SocArXiv

Parathian H (2018) Understanding cosmopolitan communities in protected areas: A case study from the Colombian Amazon. Conservation and Society

Roe D, Seddon N and J Elliott (2018) Biodiversity loss is a development issue: A rapid review of the evidence. IIED.

LaRocco A (2019) The Biodiversity for Life (B4L) flagship initiative: The EU, Africa, and biodiversity conservation. In Beringer S, Maier S and M Thiel (eds) EU Development Policies, International Political Economy Series.

Van Der Meer Simo A, Kanowskia P and K Barney (2019) Revealing environmental income in rural livelihoods: evidence from four villages in Lao PDR. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods.

Fortini L (2019) Integrated models show a transient opportunity for sustainable management by tropical forest dwellers. Forest Ecology and Management.

Manejar A, Sandoy L and R Subade (2019) Linking marine biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation: A case study in selected rural communities of Sagay Marine Reserve, Negros Occidental. Marine Policy.

Rai J (2019) Understanding poverty-environment relationship from sustainable development perspectives. Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International.

Nkongho A (2019) Fiscal decentralisation system and sustainable forest management in Cameroon: A myth or reality towards sustainable local development. Journal of Taxation and Regulatory Framework.

Bolin A and D Macqueen (2019) How forest and farm producer organisations deliver social and cultural services. IIED Briefing.

Roe D, Seddon N and J Elliott (2019) Biodiversity loss is a development issue. A rapid review of the evidence. IIED Issue Paper

Roe D (2019) Biodiversity loss—more than an environmental emergency. The Lancet

Franks P and M Chimère Diaw (2019) Transformative change to reduce deforestation in DRC. IIED Backgrounder

Sadanandan Nambiar E (2019) Re-imagining forestry and wood business: Pathways to rural development, poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation in the tropics. Forest Ecology and Management

Commercial interests and conservation

Sonkoue M and S Nguiffo (2019) Apes, crops and communities: Land concessions and conservation in Cameroon. IIED Briefing Paper

Schneider F, et al (2019) Sustainable and just development in Myanmar: Land disputes in Tanintharyi Region between commercial interests, nature conservation and human well-being. In: Global Land Project 4th Open Science Meeting. Bern, Switzerland

Community based conservation

Alexander S.M, Epstein G, Bodin, Ö, Armitage D and D Campbell (2018) Participation in planning and social networks increase social monitoring in community‐based conservation. Conservation Letters.

Giakoumi S et al (2018) Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective. Friontiers in Marine Science,

Major K, Smith D and AB Migliano (2018) Co-Managers or Co-Residents? Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in the Management of Protected Areas: a Case Study of the Agta in the Philippines. Human Ecology.

Brichieri-Colombi T, et al (2018) Standardising the evaluation of community-based conservation success. Ecological Applications

Carpenter S (2018) A cross-national comparison of the efficacy of community-based and national governance approaches on the protection of the African elephant. Journal of Environmental Management

Galvin K, Beeton T and M Luizza (2018) African community-based conservation: a systematic review of social and ecological outcomes. Ecology and Society

Calva J (2018) Community-based organisations: Role on coastal resource management in the Sarangani Bay Area. Journal of Health Research and Society

Dean A, Fielding K and K Wilson (2018) Building community support for coastal management – What types of messages are most effective? Environmental Science & Policy.

Redmore L, Stronza A, Songhurst A and G McCulloch (2018) Which way forward? Past and new perspectives on community-based conservation in the Anthropocene. Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene.

Carson S, et al (2018) Visions from local populations for livelihood-based solutions to promote forest conservation sustainability in the Congo Basin. Human Ecology.

Moukrim S, et al (2018) Local community involvement in forest rangeland management: Case study of compensation on forest area closed to grazing in Morocco. The Rangeland Journal.

Mureithi S, et al (2019) Community-based conservation: An emerging land use at the livestock-wildlife interface in northern Kenya. In Kideghesho J (eds) Wildlife Management: Failures, Successes and Prospects.

Nchor A and S Asuk (2018) Perception of the status of Iko-Esai community forest, Akamkpa Local Government, Cross River State, Nigeria. Advances in Research.

Störmer N, et al (2019) Investigating the effects of community-based conservation on attitudes towards wildlife in Namibia. Biological Conservation.

Community based governance/management

Baral S, Meilby H and B Chhetri (2019) The contested role of management plans in improving forest conditions in Nepal's community forests. International Forestry Review.

Bempah G, Monney K and K Dakwa (2019) Evaluation of the community resources management area (CREMA) programme around Ankasa conservation area, Ghana. Cogent Environmental Science

Gross-Camp N, et al (2019) The type of land we want: Exploring the limits of community forestry in Tanzania and Bolivia. Sustainability

Lescuyer G, et al (2019) Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo? Ecology and Society

Martin A, et al (2019) Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation. Environmental Research Letters.

Smallhorn-West P, et al (2019) Predicting impact to assess the efficacy of community‐based marine reserve design. Conservation Letters.

Milupi I, Somers M and W Ferguson (2019) Inadequate community engagement hamstrings sustainable wildlife resource management in Zambia. African Journal of Ecology

Musavengane R and P Siakwah (2019) Challenging formal accountability processes in community natural resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa. GeoJournal.

Shanee, N (2019) Reclaim conservation: Conservation discourse and initiatives of the Rondas Campesinas, north-eastern Peru. Conservation and Society.

Tetinwe N (2019) Community management groups as an effective legal paradigm for local level participation in the management, conservation and wise use of wetlands: Case study of Cameroon. National Journal of Environmental Law

Community based fisheries management

Andrachuk M, Armitage D, Hoang H and N Le (2019) A network perspective on spatially clustered territorial use rights for fishers (TURFs) in Vietnam. Coastal Management.

Hamiton R, et al (2019) Community-based management fails to halt declines of bumphead parrotfish and humphead wrasse in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Coral Reefs.

Hossain M and A Rabby (2019) Institutional constraints to fishers' resilience: Community based fishery management in Bangladesh. International Journal of the Commons