Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: An Overview

Published Date
September 2005, Vol.33(9):1383–1402, doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.10.004
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation

Author 

William D. Sunderlin
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia

• Arild Angelsen

• Agricultural University of Norway, Ås, Norway

• Brian Belcher

• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia

• Paul Burgers

• University of Utrecht, Netherlands

• Robert Nasi

• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Montpellier, France

• Levania Santoso

• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia

• Sven Wunder

• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Belem, Brazil

Accepted 25 October 2004. Available online 27 July 2005. 

Summary

In the growing literature at the interface of rural livelihood improvement and conservation of natural forests, two overarching issues stand out: (1) How and to what extent use of forest resources do and can contribute to poverty alleviation and (2) How and to what extent poverty alleviation and forest conservation are and can be made convergent rather than divergent goals. This article summarizes and evaluates the state-of-the-art knowledge in these domains of thought and identifies priorities for future research.

Key words

livelihoods

poverty

forest

deforestation

conservation 

environment

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