Publications

• Paper: Rural Lives and Perceived Well-being in Commercializing Landscapes of Northern Laos
  Maung, W.P., Vanhnasin, Y., Thongmanivong, S., Metaragakusuma, A.P., Sidibe, A., Wong, G.Y. (2025). Rural Lives and Perceived Well-being in Commercializing Landscapes of Northern Laos. Wellbeing, Space and Society.
• Paper: Forest land deals, resistance, and legitimisation – a comparative analysis of discourse coalitions and silent actors in Cameroon and Malaysia
  Brockhaus, M., Kan, A., Mfoulou, A., Assembe-Mvondo, S., Chacgom, A., Thomas, G. J., Naito, D., Varkkey, H., Wong, G. Y. (2025). Forest land deals, resistance, and legitimisation – a comparative analysis of discourse coalitions and silent actors in Cameroon and Malaysia. Third World Quarterly, 1–22.
• Paper: Perceived ecosystem service bundles across forested landscapes in transition: A case study in southern Cameroon
  Hepp, C.M., Dhiaulhaq, A., Adjoffoin, L.M. Ehowe, C., Assembe-Mvondo, S., Bruun, T.B. (2025). Perceived ecosystem service bundles across forested landscapes in transition: A case study in southern Cameroon. Ambio.
• Paper: Fatal attraction to win-win-win? Debates and contestations in the media on Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah, Malaysia
  Kan, A., Brockhaus, M., John, G, Varkkey, H. (2024). Fatal attraction to win–win-win? Debates and contestations in the media on Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah, Malaysia. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 29 (77).
• Book review: Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development
  Wong, G. Y. (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
  Koh, N. S., Wong, G. Y., & Hahn, T. (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
  Wong, G. Y., Karambiri, M., Thu Thuy, P. ., Ville, A., Hoang, T. L., Linh, C. D. T., Downing, A., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., & Brockhaus, M. (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+
  Brockhaus, M., De Sy, V., Di Gregorio, M., Herold, M., Wong, G. Y., Ochieng, R., Angelsen, A. (2024). Data and information in a political forest: The case of REDD+. Forest Policy and Economics.
• IUFRO Report: International Forests Governance: A critical review of trends, drawbacks, and new approaches
  Kleinschmit, D., Wildburger, C., Grima, N., and Fisher, B. (eds.), 2024. International Forest Governance: A Critical Review of Trends, Drawbacks, and New Approaches. IUFRO World Series Volume 43. Vienna. 164p.
• Paper: The political economy of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
  Sánchez García, P & Wong, G. (2024, 3 23). The political economy of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Journal of Political Ecology 31(1) :178–199. doi: 10.2458/jpe.5230
• Paper: Environmental Justice and Human Well-being Bundles in Protected Areas: An Assessment in Campo Ma’an Landscape, Cameroon
  Dhiaulhaq, A., Hepp, C. M., Adjoffoin, L. M., Ehowe, C., Assembe-Mvondo, S., Wong, G. Y. (2024). Environmental justice and human well-being bundles in protected areas: An assessment in Campo Ma’an landscape, Cameroon. Forest Policy and Economics.
• Book chapter: Crises, Complexities and Claims in Protected Areas – Landscape of (In) Coherent Biodiversity Governance and Social-Environmental Injustice in Southwest Cameroon
  Assembe-Mvondo, S., Tieguhong, J. C., Wong, G., & Brockhaus, M. (2023) Crises, complexities and claims in protected areas: Landscapes of (in)coherent biodiversity governance and social-environmental injustice in Southwest Cameroon. In Ongolo, S., & Krott, M. (Eds.) Power Dynamics in African Forests: The Politics of Global Sustainability (1st ed.). Routledge, London.
• Research Brief Series 2 – Gender & Intersectional Aspects in Scientific Research on Forest-Agriculture Frontiers
  Kyntschl, H. (2023). FairFrontiers Research Brief Series.
• Can REDD+ finance compete with established and emerging land investments? The case of Mai-Ndombe, Democratic Republic of Congo
  Pietarinen, N., Koh, N. S., Ville, A., Brockhaus, M., Wong, G. (2023). Can REDD+ finance compete with established and emerging land investements? The case of Mai-Ndombe, DRC. CIFOR-ICRAF.
• Research Brief Series 1 – When distal flows meet local realities
  Ali, S. & Varkkey, H. (2023). When distal flows meet local realities. FairFrontiers Research Brief Series.
• Paper: Carbon footprint of shifting cultivation landscapes: current knowledge, assumptions and data gaps
  Bruun, T.B & Hepp, C. M. (2023). Carbon Footprints.
• Paper: Blind-spots and spotlights in bureaucratic politics: An analysis of policy co-production in environmental governance dynamics in Indonesia
  Sahide, M.A.K., Fisher, M.R., Sirimorok, N., Faturachmat, F., Dhiaulhaq, A., Maryudi, A., Batiran, K.B., Spratman, S. (2023). Blind-spots and spotlights in bureaucratic politics: An analysis of policy co-production in environmental governance dynamics in Indonesia. Development Policy Review.
• Paper: An overview of interactions between wildlife and forest illegalities in Cameroon
  Assembe-Mvondo, S. & Kan, A.. (2022). An overview of interactions between wildlife and forest illegalities. International Forestry Review.
• Book chapter: State of Congo Basin Forests on Local Communities and Indigenous Rights in Central Africa
  Tsanga, R., Assembe-Mvondo, S., Lescuyer, G., Vermeulen, C., Wardell, D. A., Kalenga, M-A., Boutinot, L., Oyono, P. R., Walters, G., Hymas, O., Abanda Ngono, F., Nguinguiri, J-C., Sartoretto, E., Ratiarison, S. (2022). State of Congo Basin Forests on Local Communities and Indigenous Rights in Central Africa. Congo Basin Forests – State of the Forests 2021
• Paper: The making of resource frontier spaces in the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia: A critical analysis of narratives, actors and drivers in the scientific literature
  Wong, G. T., Holm, M., Pietarinen, N., Ville, A., Brockhaus, M. (2022). The making of resource frontier spaces in the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia: A critical analysis of narratives, actors and drivers in the scientific literature. World Development Perspectives.
• Paper: The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity
  Brockhaus, M., Di Gregorio, M., Djoudi, H., Moeliono, M., Pham, T. T. & Wong, G. Y. (2021). Global Forest Environmental Frontiers.
• Paper: When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives
  Downing, A., Wong, G. Y., Dyer, M., Aguiar, A. P., Selomane, O., Aceituno, A. J. (2021). When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives. Global Environmental Change.

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