Exploring Pitas, Sabah: Unequal Development and Ongoing Struggles
Researcher Andi Patiware Metaragakusuma writes her thoughts on the complex struggles surround customary land rights in Pitas, Sabah.
Interview Series: Moira Moeliono (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Dr. Moeliono is a Senior Associate at CIFOR-ICRAF, and is based in Bogor, Indonesia. She first started working in North and East Kalimantan twenty years ago, conducting research with local communities in forest-agriculture frontiers.
Book review: Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development
Wong, Grace. (2024). Review of Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development. Chun Sheng Goh and Lesley Potter. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
Paper: Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos
Niak Koh, Grace Y Wong and Thoman Hann. (2024). Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos. Environmental Politics, 1–23.
Paper: When Policies Problematize the Local: Social-Environmental Justice and Forest Policies in Burkina Faso and Vietnam
Grace Y. Wong, Mawa Karambiri, Pham Thu Thuy, Alizée Ville, Tuan Long Hoang, Chi Dao Thi Linh, Andrea Downing, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, Maria Brockhaus. (2024). When Policies Problematize the Local: Social-Environmental Justice and Forest Policies in Burkina Faso and Vietnam. Forest and Society, 8(1), 296-313.
Paper: Data and information in a political forest: The case of REDD+
Maria Brockhaus, Veronique De Sy, Monica Di Gregorio, Martin Herold, Grace Y. Wong, Robert Ochieng, Arild Angelsen. (2024). Data and information in a political forest: The case of REDD+. Forest Policy and Economics.
On the need for critical and decolonial research – Reflections from the 5th International Forest Policy Meeting
After attending IFPM5, Research Associate Ayami Kan reflects on the motivations and purposes for critical and decolonial research.
IUFRO Report: International Forests Governance: A critical review of trends, drawbacks, and new approaches
Daniela Kleinschmit, Christoph Wildburger, Nelson Grima, and Brendan Fisher (eds.), 2024.
International Forest Governance: A Critical Review of Trends, Drawbacks, and New Approaches.
IUFRO World Series Volume 43. Vienna. 164p.
Presentation: Flows of finance and diverging interests and discourses in frontier governance in Mai Ndombe, DR Congo
11 April 2024 – 5th International Forest Policy Meeting, Finland
Presentation: Fatal attraction to win-win-win? Contestations in the media on Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah
11 April 2024 – 5th International Forest Policy Meeting, Finland