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"Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services" – new book co-edited by Dr Laura Rival (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Thu, 03/01/2013 - 16:07
Rival book

• Cutting-edge commentary and analysis of governance mechanisms for enhancing the provision of ecosystem services
• Features authors and case studies from around the world
• Offers multiple research perspectives from a range of disciplines

New Global Ecosystem Monitoring network website launched

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Fri, 13/04/2012 - 12:51

The Global Ecosystem Monitoring network (GEM) is an international effort to measure and understand forest ecosystem functions and traits, and how these will respond to climate change.

Visit the GEM website and read more at http://gem.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk/

Africa's rainforests "more resilient" to climate change: findings of the "Climate Change, Deforestation and Future of African Rainforests" conference

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Fri, 13/01/2012 - 16:28

Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, a gathering of scientists has said. Read more at BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16428306

To download presentations and audio podcasts from the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/africa/programme.php

Call for papers for conference on Beyond carbon: Ensuring justice and equity in REDD+ across levels of governance

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Fri, 09/12/2011 - 16:43
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St Anne's College, Oxford, 23rd to 24th March 2012

Call for papers for "Climate change, deforestation and the future of African rainforests" conference

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 16:11
Africa conference logo

The Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests is hosting a conference which provides a multidisciplinary examination of the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century. Abstracts for the conference are now being invited by the Conference Steering Committee. For full details and to submit an extract online, please visit the conference website. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30th September 2011.

Dr Heike Schroeder co-edits special issue on "Governing and Implementing REDD+"

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 18:15
ESP journal cover

The special issue, published in Environmental Science & Policy, can be viewed on the Environmental Science and Policy journal website (Volume 14, issue 2).

The collection of articles includes a number of papers by ECI researchers:

Meetings with remarkable ghosts

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Fri, 04/03/2011 - 15:57

Christina Hardyment talks to Angela Palmer about her epic installation of rainforest giants outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Governing and Implementing REDD+,

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Tue, 15/02/2011 - 16:55
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OCTF researchers,
Dr Connie McDermott and Dr Heike Schroeder, speak at COP16 side event.

This side event, organised by the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, showcased contributions from a forthcoming issue of the journal Environmental Science & Policy on the ongoing debates around governance and implementation of REDD+.

Read more about this event here

"No Correlation Between Democracy and Forest Governance"

Submitted by Jane Applegarth on Tue, 15/02/2011 - 15:34
McDermot et al.2010

A new review of Global Environmenal Forest Policies, by Drs. Constance L. McDermott, Benjamin Cashore and Peter Kanowshki, on Ecosystem Marketplace.

"As UN negotiators scramble to develop a global mechanism for generating carbon credits by saving rainforests, individual countries are moving ahead with their own plans. Research published last year, however, shows that most of those plans are woefully out of synch with each other – a fact that could have dire consequences for the development of a truly global carbon market." Gabriel Thoumi

New Book - Global Environmental Forest Policies

Submitted by anna.cura on Mon, 01/03/2010 - 10:59
McDermot et al.2010

Global Environmental Forest Policies

An International Comparison
By Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore and Peter Kanowski

This book is the first to systematically compare environmental forest policy requirements across a large and diverse set of countries, worldwide.