May 31, 2016
Networks for Large Landscape Conservation in North America
R. Patrick Bixler
Texas A&M University
A central challenge of working at the many different scales of the Crown of the Continent is the number of boundaries that exist across the landscape. Applications of network governance at the Crown of the Continent The Crown of the Continent is a vast, unique region, with its 18 million acres stretching from Montana to […] ...
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May 25, 2016
North American Models of Large Landscape Conservation
R. Patrick Bixler
Texas A&M University
Environmental Problems do not have boundaries and Conservation Challenges affect everyone. Climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and ecosystem degradation affect diverse groups of people across large areas. These problems transcend jurisdictional and other socially-constructed boundaries. Action to address these impacts cannot be coordinated without the input, bu ...
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May 11, 2016
Agriculture or Forest? Studying Tree Cultivation in West Java, Indonesia
Syed Ajijur Rahman
University of Copenhagen, Bangor University, and CIFOR
Small-scale farmers in Indonesia boast a number of agroforestry systems that integrate biophysical and socio-economic functions. In Gunung Salak Valley, West Java, farmers have a range of agroforestry practices that can be classified into five systems: home gardens, fruit tree systems, timber tree systems, mixed fruit-timber systems, and cropping in the forest understory. Altho ...
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May 5, 2016
Protecting Gambella’s hidden treasures requires multi-stakeholder involvement, Part 2
Daniel Wiegant Crespo
Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network
Toon de Bruyn
Herman Brouwer
Minu Hemmati
With cultures, biodiversity and enterprises that cross political boundaries, multi-stakeholder collaboration is critical to integrated and sustainable development in the Gambella of Ethiopia. Historically, the Gambella landscape, like other parts of the continent, has been characterised by a low level of coordination between different actors and sectors. Development planning di ...
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May 3, 2016
Protecting Gambella’s hidden treasures requires multi-stakeholder involvement, Part 1
Daniel Wiegant Crespo
Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network
Toon de Bruyn
Herman Brouwer
Minu Hemmati
The Gambella region in western Ethiopia offers a culturally and ecologically unique landscape, which shares much of its characteristics with neighbouring South Sudan. Largely unknown, it is one of the best-preserved, and relatively inaccessible, regions of Ethiopia. The swampy area and limited infrastructure make it ideal for impressive transboundary mammal migrations between ...
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