1: The interface between forest science and policy—a review of the IUFRO international and multidisciplinary scientific conference 4–7 October 2016: forestry-related policy and governance: analyses in the environmental social sciences

ABSTRACT: This commentary uses the experience of attending the “Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Forestry-related Policy and Governance” to contrast the lack of progress with...

2: Second Growth : The Promise of Tropical Rain Forest Regeneration in the Age of Deforestation—Review

Robin Chazdon  In Second Growth, Robin Chazdon conveys the message that tropical forests are “malleable” and should be helped to achieve their maximum potential for regeneration wherever...

3: Book Review: Regreening the Bare Hills: Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region by David Lamb. 

Image David Lamb, one of the founding fathers of forest restoration science in the Asia Pacific region, and an enthusiastic patron of FORRU-CMU, penned "Regreeening...

4: Workshop Review: Can tree plantations restore degraded tropical forests?

SUMMARY: About 15 million sq km of the tropics is classified as “degraded". One way to rehabilitate degraded land and take the pressure off remaining forest is to establish plantations of...

5: Can community forestry save biodiversity?

SUMMARY: All over the world, governments are handing over control of state forests to local communities, in the hope that local communities will manage them better than state agencies have. But...