Citation
Humphreys, David; Kamoto, Judith; Mutta, Doris N.; Rai, Nitin; Song, Conghe; Joleen Timko,; Laura Vang Rasmussen; & Cheek, Jennifer Z. (2020). Contextual Factors Shaping Forest-Poverty Dynamics. Forests, Trees, and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations - A Global Assessment Report, 95-124.Abstract
Forests and tree-based systems represent complex social-ecological systems. Gaining a better understanding of how contextual factors influence forest-poverty dynamics is essential for the design, targeting and implementation of policy instruments and interventions to alleviate poverty. In this chapter we explore key social, economic, political and environmental factors affecting forest-poverty dynamics, and use a series of illustrative examples to demonstrate how factors can take multiple roles in causal chains of processes of social and environmental change in forest and tree-based systems. We conclude the chapter by highlighting how future research can provide a better understanding of the processes and contexts shaping forest-poverty dynamics, including elucidating the relative effects of different drivers of change on multiple social and environmental outcomes.URL
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/7827/Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2020Journal Title
Forests, Trees, and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations - A Global Assessment ReportAuthor(s)
Humphreys, DavidKamoto, Judith
Mutta, Doris N.
Rai, Nitin
Song, Conghe
Joleen Timko,
Laura Vang Rasmussen
Cheek, Jennifer Z.