Project
Landscape Forestry in the Tropics: REDD+ und Restoration
Landscape Forestry in the Tropics: REDD+ und Restoration | LaForeT · R² (New phase from 2020-2023)
Towards policy approaches for improving livelihoods, sustainable forest management and conservation in forests of selected countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America
LaForeT explores the impact of policy instruments as well as additional drivers on deforestation and reforestation in the Tropics. It is funded by the Thünen Institute and the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in collaboration with partners in Ecuador, the Philippines and Zambia.
Although deforestation rates remain alarmingly high in the tropics, there are also examples of reforestation, both via natural regeneration and through plantation development. While the effects on climate change are mostly undisputed, the processes of deforestation and reforestation often have unknown consequences for the livelihoods of the local population. In many countries, the development of reference scenarios for deforestation at the national level for the implementation of the REDD+ mechanism is well advanced, but little is known about the effectiveness of global and national policy instruments.
Results
First project phase LaForeT (2015 - 2020)
- Project brief 2020/02 (EN) Richard Fischer:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581515467000 - Project brief 2020/03 (EN) Lisa Rummel:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581587041000 - Project brief 2020/04 (EN) Fernando Gordillo Vera:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581587083000 - Project brief 2020/05 (ES) Tatiana Ojeda Luna:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581587120000
Project brief 2020/05a (EN) Tatiana Ojeda Luna:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581587154000 - Project brief 2020/06 (ES) Paul Eguiguren:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581608003000
Project brief 2020/06a (EN) Paul Eguiguren:
DOI:10.3220/PB1581587209000 - Project brief 2020/08 (EN) Rubén Ferrer Velasco
DOI:10.3220/PB1581587318000 - Project brief 2020/12 (EN) Moses Kazungu
DOI:10.3220/PB1586850994000 - Project brief 2020/13 (EN) Rizza Karen Veridiano
DOI:10.3220/PB1586939200000
Project brief 2020/13a (DE) Rizza Karen Veridiano
DOI:10.3220/PB1588060815000
Project brief 2020/13b (Filipino) Rizza Karen Veridiano
DOI:10.3220/PB1588061278000 - Project brief 2020/17 (EN) Hellen Nansikombi
DOI:10.3220/PB1598271144000 - Project brief 2020/19 (EN) Hellen Nansikombi
DOI:10.3220/PB1603793282000 - Project brief 2020/20 (EN) Paúl Eguiguren
DOI:10.3220/PB1604584199000
Project brief 2020/20a (ES) Paúl Eguiguren - Project brief 2020/21 (EN) Tatiana Ojeda Luna
DOI:10.3220/PB1605512446000
Project brief 2020/21a (ES) Tatiana Ojeda Luna
DOI:10.3220/PB1605513227000
Second project phase LaForeT · R2 (2020 - 2023)
- Project brief 2021/14 (EN) Moses Kazungu
DOI:10.3220/PB1620197330000 - Project brief 2021/25 (DE) · Moses Kazungu et al.
DOI:10.3220/PB1631609121000 - Project brief 2021/25a (EN) · Moses Kazungu et al.
DOI:10.3220/PB1631609911000 - Project brief 2022/19a (EN) · Ruben Weber et al.
DOI:10.3220/PB1652856131000 - Project brief 2023/29a (EN) Richard Fischer
DOI: 10.3220/PB1686554505000 - Project brief 2023/32 (EN) Richard Fischer
DOI:10.3220/PB1689666084000
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
- Dieter, Matthias WF Institute of Forestry
- Elsasser, Peter WF Institute of Forestry
- Fischer, Richard WF Institute of Forestry
- Gordillo, FernandoWF Institute of Forestry
- Kübler, DanielWF Institute of Forestry
- Lippe, MelvinWF Institute of Forestry
- Peters, FerdinandWF Institute of Forestry
- Zhunusova, ElizaWF Institute of Forestry
List of Publications
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Kübler D, Günter S (2024) 6 Forest restoration for climate change mitigation and adaptation. In: Katila P, Colfer CJP, De Jong W, Galloway G, Pacheco P, Winkel G (eds) Restoring forests and trees for sustainable development: Policies, practices, impacts, and ways forward. New York: Oxford University Press, pp 135-159, DOI:10.1093/9780197683958.003.0006
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Holler S, Kübler D, Conrad O, Schmitz O, Bonannella C, Hengl T, Böhner J, Günter S, Lippe M (2024) Quo vadis, smallholder forest landscape? An introduction to the LPB-RAP model. PLoS One 19(2):e0297439, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0297439
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Fischer R, Lippe M, Dolom P, Kanungwe Kalaba F, Tamayo F, Torres B (2023) "Der Mix machts" - Politikinstrumente zum Tropenwalderhalt kombinieren und implementieren. Hamburg: Thünen-Institut für Waldwirtschaft, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/29, DOI:10.3220/PB1686554021000
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Fischer R, Lippe M, Dolom P, Kanungwe Kalaba F, Tamayo F, Torres B (2023) "Mix it" - how to combine and implement policy instruments for tropical forest conservation. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of Forestry, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/29a, DOI:10.3220/PB1686554505000
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Fischer R, Lippe M, Dolom P, Kanungwe Kalaba F, Tamayo F, Torres B (2023) Effectiveness of policy instrument mixes for forest conservation in the tropics - Stakeholder perceptions from Ecuador, the Philippines and Zambia. Land Use Pol 127:106546, DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106546
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Peters F, Lippe M, Eguiguren P, Günter S (2023) Forest ecosystem services at landscape level - Why forest transition matters? [online] Forest Ecol Manag 534:120782, zu finden in <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112723000154> [zitiert am 28.02.2023], DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120782
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Peters F, Lippe M, Eguiguren P, Günter S (2023) From intact forests to agricultural-forest mosaics: implications of a landscape gradient for ecosystem services in the tropics. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of Forestry, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/32a, DOI:10.3220/PB1689666084000
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Sadeghi A, Zhunusova E, Günter S, Dieter M (2023) Households' livelihood in restricted forest landscapes: What is the impact of contextual factors? Forest Pol Econ 154:103008, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103008
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Ferrer Velasco R, Lippe M, Fischer R, Torres B, Tamayo F, Kanungwe Kalaba F, Kaoma H, Bugayong L, Günter S (2023) Reconciling policy instruments with drivers of deforestation and forest degradation : cross-scale analysis of stakeholder perceptions in tropical countries. Sci Rep 13:2180, DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-29417-y
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Peters F, Lippe M, Eguiguren P, Günter S (2023) Von Naturwäldern zu Agrar-Wald-Mosaiken: Auswirkungen eines Landschaftsgradienten auf Ökosystemleistungen in tropischen Wäldern. Hamburg: Thünen-Institut für Waldwirtschaft, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/32, DOI:10.3220/PB1689665217000
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Sarker PK, Fischer R, Tamayo F, Torres Navarrete B, Günter S (2022) Analyzing forest policy mixes based on the coherence of policies and the consistency of legislative policy instruments: A case study from Ecuador. Forest Pol Econ 144:102838, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102838
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Nansikombi H (2022) Forest governance and its links with deforestation and forest recovery at the local scale in the tropics. München: Technische Universität München, München, Technische Universität, Fakultät Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Diss
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Weber R, Lippe M, Tamayo F, Mfuni T, Come R, Mangabat C, Schneider T, Günter S (2022) How "good" are forest maps in the tropics? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of Forestry, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2022/19a, DOI:10.3220/PB1652856131000
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Weber R, Lippe M, Günter S (2022) Mapping tropical forests: implications and challenges for deforested landscapes and forest restoration. Examples from Zambia, Ecuador and Philippines : [paper for] XV World Forestry Congress, Coex, Soul, Republic of Korea, 2-6 May 2022. 9 p
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Lippe M, Rummel L, Günter S (2022) Simulating land use and land cover change under contrasting levels of policy enforcement and its spatially-explicit impact on tropical forest landscapes in Ecuador. Land Use Pol 119(Aug. 2022):106207, DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106207
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Zhunusova E, Lippe M, Yang AL, Günter S (2022) The implications of remittances for agricultural land use and fuelwood collection: Evidence from the remaining forested landscapes in the Philippines. Environ Res Lett 17(2):024041, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac44c4
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Ferrer Velasco R, Lippe M, Tamayo F, Mfuni T, Sales-Come R, Mangabat C, Schneider T, Günter S (2022) Towards accurate mapping of forest in tropical landscapes: A comparison of datasets on how forest transition matters. Remote Sens Environ 274:112997, DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2022.112997
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Wiebe P, Zhunusova E, Lippe M, Ferrer Velasco R, Günter S (2022) What is the contribution of forest-related income to rural livelihood strategies in the Philippines' remaining forested landscapes? Forest Pol Econ 135:102658, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102658
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Weber R, Lippe M, Tamayo F, Mfuni T, Come R, Mangabat C, Schneider T, Günter S (2022) Wie "gut" sind Waldkarten in den Tropen? Hamburg: Thünen-Institut für Waldwirtschaft, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2022/19, DOI:10.3220/PB1652855579000
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Kazungu M, Ferrer Velasco R, Zhunusova E, Lippe M, Kabwe G, Gumbo DJ, Günter S (2021) Can regional land use management policies reduce deforestation in Zambia? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2021/25a, DOI:10.3220/PB1631609911000
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Kazungu M, Ferrer Velasco R, Zhunusova E, Lippe M, Kabwe G, Gumbo DJ, Günter S (2021) Effects of household-level attributes and agricultural land-use on deforestation patterns along a forest transition gradient in the Miombo landscapes, Zambia. Ecol Econ 186:107070, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107070
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Kazungu M (2021) Forest resources and land use change in Zambia: Examining the relationship between household-level attributes, contextual factors, deforestation and forest degradation, and their implications for livelihoods. München: Technische Universität München, 154 p, München, Technische Univ, Diss
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Kazungu M, Zhunusova E, Kabwe G, Günter S (2021) Household-level determinants of participation in forest support programmes in the Miombo landscapes, Zambia. Sustainability 13(5):2713, DOI:10.3390/su13052713
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Fischer R, Tamayo Cordero F, Ojeda Luna T, Ferrer Velasco R, DeDecker M, Torres B, Giessen L, Günter S (2021) Interplay of governance elements and their effects on deforestation in tropical landscapes: Quantitative insights from Ecuador. World Dev 148:105665, DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105665
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Kazungu M, Zhunusova E, Kabwe G, Günter S (2021) Is participation in forest programs in Zambia’s Miombo skewed towards poorer households? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2021/14, DOI:10.3220/PB1620197330000
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Kazungu M, Ferrer Velasco R, Zhunusova E, Lippe M, Kabwe G, Gumbo DJ, Günter S (2021) Können regionale Landnutzungspolitiken die Entwaldung in Sambia reduzieren? Hamburg: Thünen-Institut für Internationale Waldwirtschaft und Forstökonomie, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2021/25, DOI:10.3220/PB1631609121000
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Schröder J-M, Avila Rodriguez LP, Günter S (2021) Research trends: Tropical dry forests: The neglected research agenda? Forest Pol Econ 122:102333, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102333
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Veridiano RKA, Schröder J-M, Come R, Baldos A, Günter S (2020) Ang magkakahalong plantasyon bilang pangmaramihang tugon sa pagpapanumbalik ng kalikasan. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/13b, DOI:10.3220/PB1588061278000
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Nansikombi H, Fischer R, Ferrer Velasco R, Lippe M, Kanungwe Kalaba F, Kabwe G, Günter S (2020) Can de facto governance influence deforestation drivers in the Zambian Miombo? Forest Pol Econ 120:102309, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102309
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Palomeque X, Stimm B, Günter S (2020) Case study 3: Facilitating biodiversity through the shelter effects of Pinus patula and Alnus acuminata in montane ecosystems in southern Ecuador. ITTO Pol Dev Ser 24:89-91
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Ahimbisibwe V, Schröder J-M, Günter S (2020) Case study 6: The restoration of degraded tropical forests - a performance-based payments approach. ITTO Pol Dev Ser 24:97-99
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Kazungu M, Zhunusova E, Yang AL, Kabwe G, Gumbo DJ, Günter S (2020) Charcoal use in Zambia’s Miombo: balancing livelihoods and forest preservation. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/12, DOI:10.3220/PB1586850994000
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Ojeda Luna T, Eguiguren P, Günter S, Torres B, Dieter M (2020) Decisiones de deforestación a nivel de hogar en los bosques húmedos de tierras bajas de Ecuador. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/21a, DOI:10.3220/PB1605513227000
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Ojeda Luna T, Zhunusova E, Fischer R, Günter S, Dieter M (2020) Deforestación y estrategias de conservación: efectos en el ingreso agrícola y forestal en Ecuador. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/05, DOI:10.3220/PB1581587120000
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Ojeda Luna T, Zhunusova E, Fischer R, Günter S, Dieter M (2020) Deforestation and forest conservation: effects on farm income in Ecuador. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/05a, DOI:10.3220/PB1581587154000
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Ferrer Velasco R, Köthke M, Lippe M, Günter S (2020) Deforestation drivers in the tropics, do jurisdictional scale and context matter? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/08, DOI:10.3220/PB1581587318000
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Nansikombi H, Fischer R, Ferrer Velasco R, Lippe M, Kanungwe Kalaba F, Kabwe G, Günter S (2020) Deforestation in Zambia’s Miombo: Does governance play a notable role? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/19, DOI:10.3220/PB1603793282000
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Eguiguren P, Ojeda Luna T, Torres B, Lippe M, Günter S (2020) Ecosystem service multifunctionality: Decline and recovery pathways in the Amazon and Chocó Lowland rainforests. Sustainability 12(18):7786, DOI:10.3390/su12187786
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Nansikombi H, Fischer R, Kabwe G, Günter S (2020) Exploring patterns of forest governance quality: Insights from forest frontier communities in Zambia´s Miombo ecoregion. Land Use Pol 99:104866, DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104866
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Eguiguren P, Fischer R, Günter S (2020) Financial incentives show effects beyond forest conservation areas in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/06a, DOI:10.3220/PB1581587209000
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Kazungu M, Zhunusova E, Yang AL, Kabwe G, Gumbo DJ, Günter S (2020) Forest use strategies and their determinants among rural households in the Miombo woodlands of the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Forest Pol Econ 111:102078, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102078
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Veridiano RKA, Schröder J-M, Come R, Baldos A, Günter S (2020) Forstliche Mischplantagen als multifunktionales Mittel zur Wiederherstellung von Waldlandschaften. Hamburg: Thünen-Institut für Internationale Waldwirtschaft und Forstökonomie, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/13a, DOI:10.3220/PB1588060815000
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Ojeda Luna T, Eguiguren P, Günter S, Torres B, Dieter M (2020) Household deforestation decisions in the Ecuadorian tropical lowland rainforests. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/21, DOI:10.3220/PB1605512446000
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Gordillo Vera F, Elsasser P, Günter S (2020) How much are Ecuadorian households willing to pay for forest conservation? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/04, DOI:10.3220/PB1581587083000
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Fischer R, Giessen L, Günter S (2020) Improved governance helps reducing tropical deforestation. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/02, DOI:10.3220/PB1581515467000
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Eguiguren P, Fischer R, Günter S (2020) Los incentivos financieros muestran efectos más allá de las áreas de conservación en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/06, DOI:10.3220/PB1581608003000
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Ojeda Luna T, Zhunusova E, Günter S, Dieter M (2020) Measuring forest and agricultural income in the Ecuadorian lowland rainforest frontiers: Do deforestation and conservation strategies matter? Forest Pol Econ 111:102034, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102034
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Veridiano RKA, Schröder J-M, Come R, Baldos A, Günter S (2020) Mixed-species plantations as a multi-functionality-tool for landscape restoration. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/13, DOI:10.3220/PB1586939200000
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Rummel L, Lippe M, Günter S (2020) Prospecting future deforestation hotspots in the Ecuadorian Amazonas region under alternative scenarios of governance enforcement. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/03, DOI:10.3220/PB1581587041000
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Eguiguren P, Ojeda Luna T, Torres B, Lippe M, Günter S (2020) Provisión de múltiples servicios ecosistémicos en los bosques de tierras bajas de Ecuador. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/20a, DOI:10.3220/PB1604584861000
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Eguiguren P, Ojeda Luna T, Torres B, Lippe M, Günter S (2020) Provision of multiple ecosystem services in the tropical lowland forests of Ecuador. Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/20, DOI:10.3220/PB1604584199000
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Ferrer Velasco R, Köthke M, Lippe M, Günter S (2020) Scale and context dependency of deforestation drivers: Insights from spatial econometrics in the tropics. PLoS One 15(1):e0226830, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0226830
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Gordillo Vera F, Torres B, Tamayo F (2020) Sobre la disposición al pago de hogares ecuatorianos para la conservación forestal en Ecuador. Serie de publicaciones misceláneas del INABIO 15:144-150
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Veridiano RKA, Schröder J-M, Come R, Baldos A, Günter S (2020) Towards forest landscape restoration programs in the Philippines: Evidence from logged forests and mixed-species plantations. Environments 7(3):20, DOI:10.3390/environments7030020
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Ojeda Luna T, Eguiguren P, Günter S, Torres B, Dieter M (2020) What drives household deforestation decisions? Insights from the Ecuadorian lowland rainforests. Forests 11(11):1131, DOI:10.3390/f11111131
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Nansikombi H, Fischer R, Kabwe G, Günter S (2020) Zambian Miombo ecoregion: No international forestry agenda without the chiefs? Hamburg: Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2020/17, DOI:10.3220/PB1598271144000
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Eguiguren P, Fischer R, Günter S (2019) Degradation of ecosystem services and deforestation in landscapes with and without incentive-based forest conservation in the ecuadorian amazon. Forests 10:442, DOI:10.3390/f10050442
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Nansikombi H, Fischer R, Kabwe G, Günter S (2019) Examining relationships in forest governance quality: insights from forest frontier communities in Zambia's Miombo ecoregion : Paper prepared for presentation at the "2019 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty" ; The World Bank - Washington DC, March 25-29, 2019. 19 p
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Lippe M, Bithell M, Gotts N, Natalini D, Barbrook-Johnson P, Giupponi C, Hallier M, Hofstede GJ, Le Page Christophe, Matthews RB, Schlüter M, Smith P, Teglio A, Thellmann K (2019) Using agent-based modelling to simulate social-ecological systems across scales. Geoinformatica 23(2):269-298, DOI:10.1007/s10707-018-00337-8
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Gordillo Vera F, Elsasser P, Günter S (2019) Willingness to pay for forest conservation in Ecuador: Results from a nationwide contingent valuation survey in a combined "referendum" - "Consequential open-ended" design. Forest Pol Econ 105:28-39, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2019.05.002
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Rummel L (2018) Modelling land use change in the Ecuadorian Amazon under alternative scenarios of future land use trends and governance enforcement. Hohenheim: Univ, Hohenheim, Univ, Masterarbeit, 2018
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Ospina V, Torres B, Köthke M, Kapp G, Fischer R, Günter S (2017) Sistema socio-productivo y modela de gobernanza en la comunidad kichwa "Shiwakucha", Pastaza, Ecuador. Rev Amazon 6(2):126-149
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Singh M, Friess DA, Vilela B, De Alban JDT, Monzon KV, Veridiano RKA, Tumaneng RD (2017) Spatial relationships between above-ground biomass and bird species biodiversity in Palawan, Philippines. PLoS One:22 S., DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0186742
Funding Body
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Federal Ministry of Food und Agriculture (BMEL)
(national, öffentlich)
Duration
1.2015 - 12.2023
More Information
Project funding number: 281-006-01
Project status:
finished
