Democracy and natural resources -- Theoretical foundation of decentralization's potential environmental benefits -- Local accountability - institutional choices in practice -- Responsiveness of local institutions - power and capacity -- Lessons learned -- Recommendations -- Annex A: WRI research...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects -- Part I Power/Knowledge and the Creation of Forests -- 2. Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges -- 3. Struggles over...

Intertemporal trade-offs are inherent in most choices, and are especially salient in environmental decisions. Although psychology, anthropology, and economics each offer unique insights and findings on the mental and social processes underlying the evaluation of future events, each discipline...

In recent decades, the impacts of climate on society and on human well-being have attracted increasing amounts of attention, and the forecasts that predict such impacts have become more accurate. Forecasts are now distributed and used more widely than they were in the past. This article reviews...

Agriculture in the Central Valley of California, one of the USA’s main sources of fruits, nuts, and vegetables, is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts in the next 50 years. This interdisciplinary case study in Yolo County shows the urgency f or building adaptation strategies to climate...

All 151 fishing communities in Lake Titicaca, Peru, maintain and defend communally controlled fishing territories. Environmental factors, particularly the slope of the lake bottom and the presence and abundance of aquatic vegetation, influence the distribution of the three types of such...

This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of...