TY - JOUR

T1 - A framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics

AU - Oldekop, Johan A.

AU - Gabay, Monica

AU - Humphreys, David

AU - Kamoto, Judith F.M.

AU - Mutta, Doris N.

AU - Song, Conghe

AU - Timko, Joleen

AU - Rasmussen, Laura Vang

AU - Stoian, Dietmar

N1 - Funding Information: We grateful for support from the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO). C.S. acknowledges support from the US National Science Foundation (Grant No. DEB-1313756 ); D.M. was supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA); and LVR was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 853222 FORESTDIET ). We would like to thank Dan C Miller and Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek for helpful and constructive comments on a previous version of this manuscript, and to all members of the Global Forest Expert Panel on Forests and Poverty for insightful discussions that helped guide our thinking and framework development. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

PY - 2021/11

Y1 - 2021/11

N2 - Forest and tree-based landscapes represent complex social-ecological systems. In tropical and subtropical regions, these landscapes are home to hundreds of millions of resource-poor people. Gaining a better understanding of how contextual factors influence forest-poverty dynamics is essential for the design, targeting and implementation of effective policy instruments and interventions to alleviate poverty. In this article we present an innovative framework for exploring the social, economic, political, institutional and environmental factors affecting forestry-poverty dynamics. We use two examples of widely used forest management and conservation interventions, namely protected areas and community forestry, to illustrate how these factors can take multiple roles in complex causal chains of processes of social and environmental change in forest and tree-based landscapes. We highlight how future research can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the processes and contexts shaping forest-poverty dynamics, including elucidating the differentiated effects of different drivers of change on multiple social and environmental outcomes over time.

AB - Forest and tree-based landscapes represent complex social-ecological systems. In tropical and subtropical regions, these landscapes are home to hundreds of millions of resource-poor people. Gaining a better understanding of how contextual factors influence forest-poverty dynamics is essential for the design, targeting and implementation of effective policy instruments and interventions to alleviate poverty. In this article we present an innovative framework for exploring the social, economic, political, institutional and environmental factors affecting forestry-poverty dynamics. We use two examples of widely used forest management and conservation interventions, namely protected areas and community forestry, to illustrate how these factors can take multiple roles in complex causal chains of processes of social and environmental change in forest and tree-based landscapes. We highlight how future research can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the processes and contexts shaping forest-poverty dynamics, including elucidating the differentiated effects of different drivers of change on multiple social and environmental outcomes over time.

KW - Causal analysis

KW - Forest

KW - Poverty

KW - Sustainable development

U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102591

DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102591

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85112484286

VL - 132

JO - Forest Policy and Economics

JF - Forest Policy and Economics

SN - 1389-9341

M1 - 102591

ER -