Catastrophic deforestation and environmental degradation have become habits of thought about forest landscapes in Latin …. Next, forest resurgence-largely a function of natural regeneration-is widely documented throughout the region on previously … tropical forest trends. Deforestation "hot spots", each with a different political ecology, remain and command attention, but …

assessment of agricultural and ecosystem services. …

Catastrophic deforestation and environmental degradation have become habits of thought about forest landscapes in Latin …. Next, forest resurgence-largely a function of natural regeneration-is widely documented throughout the region on previously … tropical forest trends. Deforestation "hot spots", each with a different political ecology, remain and command attention, but …

Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity has been called one of the greatest challenges. At the … heart of this challenge lies the low financial and political value which is often assigned to biodiversity and the resulting … experimental financing mechanisms that can be used to encourage the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. To help to …

This study challenges the current design of forest resource use contracts in Latin America. Radical rethinking of … forest resource contracts is imperative, due to the constraints that now face the successful achievement of forest policy … objectives of economic development and conservation of forest resources. The constraints identified in this study include: 1 …

This document presents the proceedings of a one-day Workshop on Investing in Biodiversity Conservation held at the … the presentation of key topics on biodiversity financing by five leaders in the field. The second part of the workshop was … dedicated to a discussion and exchange of ideas on the role of the IDB in investing in biodiversity conservation. Three main …