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.

Biocultural approaches and conservation

Biodiversity and development

Community based conservation

Community based fisheries management

Community based forest management

Conflict and conservation

Conservation and development

Culture, religion, tradition and conservation

Displacement, dispossession and conservation

Ecosystem restoration

Ecosystem services and people

Equitable / Just conservation

Forests and wellbeing

Gender and conservation

Governance

Health and conservation

Human wellbeing

Human wildlife conflict

Hunting (subsistence, traditional, trophy)

Methodological approaches

Poverty-environment linkages

Social impacts of PAs

Social-ecological systems

Wildlife trade (legal and illegal)

Biocultural approaches and conservation

Thornton S, et al (2020) Towards biocultural approaches to peatland conservation: The case for fish and livelihoods in Indonesia. Environmental Science & Policy.

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

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

Nkongho A (2019) Tackling competing claims of local communities over decentralized forestry revenue in Cameroon: A realistic solution for sustainable local development. Global Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Lawlor K, et al (2019) Poverty-environment relationships under market heterogeneity: cash transfers and rural livelihoods in Zambia. Environment and Development Economics.

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

Rai J (2019) Why are narratives that place the blame for deforestation on the rural poor so pervasive and so persistent? Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International.

Ramutsindela M and P Chauke (2019) Biodiversity, wildlife and the land question in Africa. In Ramutsindela M and D Mickler (Eds) Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer Nature Switzerland.

Blicharska M, et al (2019) Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development. Nature Sustainability.

Gellers J and C Jeffords (2019) Environmental determinants of Chinese development finance in Africa. Journal of Environment and Development.

Diniz J, Guéneau S and A Sandra (2019) Conservation of the Cerrado from the valorisation of socio-biodiversity products: The importance of production chains and local marketing channels. Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira

Griffiths V, et al (2019) Incorporating local nature-based cultural values into biodiversity No Net Loss strategies. World Development.

Hugé J, et al (2019) EIA-driven biodiversity mainstreaming in development cooperation: Confronting expectations and practice in the DR Congo. Environmental Science & Policy.

Jamila Haider L, Boonstra W, Akobirshoeva A and M Schlüter (2019) Effects of development interventions on biocultural diversity: A case study from the Pamir Mountains. Agriculture and Human Values

Malerba D (2019) Poverty alleviation and local environmental degradation: An empirical analysis in Colombia. World Development.

Sayer J, et al (2019) SDG 15: Life on land – the central role of forests in sustainable development. In Katila P, et al (eds) Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

Folke C, et al (2019) Collaborative approaches to biosphere stewardship. In Mandle L, Ouyang Z, Salzman J and G Daily (eds) Green Growth That Works. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Ioris A (2020) Production of poverty and the poverty of production in the Amazon. In Ioris A (eds) Frontier Making in the Amazon. Key Challenges in Geography (EUROGEO Book Series). Springer, Cham

Jackson P, Mam K and S Chap (2019) Promoting greater coherence between small-scale fisheries and social protection policies, mechanisms and programs in Cambodia: Research Summary. FAO.

Mandle L, et al (2019) The case and movement for securing people and nature. In Mandle L, Ouyang Z, Salzman J and G Daily (eds) Green Growth That Works. Island Press, Washington, DC. DOI:

Norton A, et al (2020) Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Ouyang Z, et al (2019) China: Designing policies to enhance ecosystem services. In Mandle L, Ouyang Z, Salzman J and G Daily (eds) Green Growth That Works. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Christensen M and J Jokar Arsanjani (2020) Stimulating implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and conservation action: Predicting future land use/cover change in Virunga National Park, Congo. Sustainability

Alamgir M, et al (2020) Emerging challenges for sustainable development and forest conservation in Sarawak, Borneo. PLOS ONE.

Lowore J (2020) Understanding the livelihood implications of reliable honey trade in the miombo woodlands in Zambia. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.

Scharlemann J, et al (2020) Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: The role of environment–human linkages. Sustainability Science

Graham S (2019) Land degradation neutrality for biodiversity conservation: How healthy land safeguards nature. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn, Germany

Fastré C, Possingham H, Strubbe D and E Matthysen (2020) Identifying trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services delivery for land-use decisions. Scientific Reports

Milner-Gulland E, et al (2020) Four Steps for the Earth: Mainstreaming the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. SocArXiv.

Mora-Motta A, Stellmacher T, Pacheco Habert G and C Henríquez Zúñiga (2020) Between extractivism and conservation: Tree plantations, forest reserves, and peasant territorialities in Los Ríos, Chile. In Fuders F and P Donoso (eds) Ecological Economic and Socio Ecological Strategies for Forest Conservation. Springer, Cham

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Lichtenfeld L, Naro E, and E Snowden (2019) Community, conservation, and collaboration: A framework for success. National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. and African People & Wildlife, Arusha

Hyle M, Devkota B and I Mustalahti (2019) From blueprints to empowerment of disadvantaged groups in natural resource governance: Lessons from Nepal and Tanzania. The Commons Journal

Aldashev G and E Vallino (2019) The dilemma of NGOs and participatory conservation. World Development.

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

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

Child B and R Cooney (2019) Local commons for global benefits: Indigenous and community-based management of wild species, forests, and drylands. Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel to the Global Environment Facility, Washington, DC

Major K, Smith D and A Bamberg Migliano (2019) 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

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

Sanga K, et al (2019) Recognising the role of local and Indigenous communities in managing natural resources for the greater public benefit: Case studies from Asia and Oceania region. Ecosystem Services

Biggs D, et al (2019) Insights on fostering the emergence of robust conservation actions from Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme. Global Ecology and Conservation.