International IUFRO Conference: Forest Governance, Policy, Economics, and beyond
9-11 Oct 2025
Beijing, China
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.
Transformations Community/Earth System Governance Conference 2025: Navigating Sustainability Transformations Towards Justice and Equity
18-21 August 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa
Seminar: The Making and Un-Making of Frontiers
16 October 2025 – FairFrontiers Seminar at RIHN, Japan
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.
Interview series: Aristide Chacgom (Green Development Advocates)
Since 2009, Green Development Advocates (GDA) has been advocating for local community and indigenous people’s rights in Southwest Cameroon, where the development of large-scale plantations as well as a conservation area have created various environmental and socio-economic pressures on these communities. During the project’s annual meeting in January 2023, we interviewed GDA’s coordinator, Aristide Chacgom. How did you get involved in GDA? I am an environmental lawyer and joined GDA after graduating from school, and I have been coordinating the activities in GDA since 2015…so that means it has been more than six years! What does GDA do? Beside advocacy work for local communities, we support them by introducing them …
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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.
Presentation: Environmental Justice and Human Well-being Bundles in Protected Areas
21 June 2023 – XIX Biennial IASC Conference at Nairobi, Kenya
Presentation: The many voices of resistance and legitimation in forest & “development” frontiers
23 June 2023 – XIX Biennial IASC Conference at Nairobi, Kenya