Many scholars call for the establishment of one kind of formal tenure—government ownership, privatization, or community control—as the way to solve problems associated with high levels of deforestation. This will not work without extensive and consistent monitoring of forest use. In this...

The effects of the flood control project of the Kakehashi River on the heritage value of Komatsu Tenmangu (a Shinto shrine) in Japan are analyzed in terms of Amartya Sen’s capability approach. The shrine was founded in 1657, and its main buildings are nationally designated “important...