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Overview

Anne M. Larson is affiliated with the Center for International Forestry Research in Peru. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Within these disciplines, their work touches on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Education, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, Forest Management and Policy, Global trade, sustainability, and social impact, Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Land Rights and Reforms, and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "Forest tenure and the Sustainable Development Goals - A critical view," 2020, Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Tenure reform for better forestry: An unfinished policy agenda," 2020, Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries," 2020, Land Use Policy
  • "Hot topics in governance for forests and trees: Towards a (just) transformative research agenda," 2021, Forest Policy and Economics
  • "A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder platforms," 2022, World Development

Frequently publishing in key venues, they have contributed six papers each to Forest Policy and Economics and The International Forestry Review. Additional contributions appear in the International Journal of Lifelong Education, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy.

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Sarmiento Barletti, Niels Rosendal Jensen, I. Monterroso, Bente Jensen, and Kathryn Pitkin Derose, indicating ongoing interdisciplinary and international research partnerships.

Anne M. Larson has also authored a book titled Social ulighed set gennem uddannelse, published by Aarhus University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources

    Jesse C. Ribot;Arun Agrawal;Anne M. Larson

  • Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance Regimes

    Anne M. Larson;Fernanda Soto

  • Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens: an introduction

    Anne M Larson;Jesse C Ribot

  • Natural Resources and Decentralization in Nicaragua: Are Local Governments Up to the Job?

    Anne M Larson

  • The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field

    Anne M. Larson;Jesse C. Ribot

  • Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly

    Anne M. Larson;Maria Brockhaus;William D. Sunderlin;Amy Duchelle

  • Forest tenure reform in the age of climate change: Lessons for REDD+

    Anne M. Larson

  • How are REDD+ Proponents Addressing Tenure Problems? Evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam

    W.D. Sunderlin;A.M. Larson;A.E. Duchelle;I. A. P. Resosudarmo

  • Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens

    J.C. Ribot;A.M. Larson

  • Democratic decentralization in the forestry sector: lessons learned from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

    Anne M. Larson

  • Social safeguards and co-benefits in REDD+: a review of the adjacent possible

    Ashwini Chhatre;Shikha Lakhanpal;Anne M Larson;Fred Nelson

  • Decentralisation and forest management in Latin America: towards a working model

    Anne M. Larson;Anne M. Larson

  • Forests for People: Community Rights and Forest Tenure Reform

    A.M. Larson;D.M. Barry;G.R. Dahal;C.J.P. Colfer

  • Linking forest tenure reform, environmental compliance, and incentives: lessons from REDD+ initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon

    Amy E. Duchelle;Marina Cromberg;Maria Fernanda Gebara;Raissa Guerra

  • Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in REDD+ and conservation projects

    Rodd Myers;Anne M Larson;Ashwin Ravikumar;Laura F Kowler

  • Tenure rights and beyond : community access to forest resources in Latin America

    A.M. Larson;P. Cronkleton;D.M. Barry;P. Pacheco

  • New Rights for Forest-Based Communities? Understanding Processes of Forest Tenure Reform

    A.M. Larson;D. Barry;Ganga Ram Dahal

  • An Introduction to Forest Governance, People and REDD+ in Latin America: Obstacles and Opportunities

    Anne M. Larson;Elena Petkova

  • Learning from REDD+: a response to Fletcher et al.

    Arild Angelsen;Maria Brockhaus;Amy E. Duchelle;Anne M. Larson

  • Formal Decentralisation and the Imperative of Decentralisation ‘from Below’: A Case Study of Natural Resource Management in Nicaragua

    Anne M Larson

  • Transforming REDD+: Lessons and new directions

    A. Angelsen;C. Martius;V. de Sy;A.E. Duchelle

Frequent Co-Authors

William D. Sunderlin
William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research
Christopher Martius
Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany
Jesse C. Ribot
Jesse C. Ribot American University
Arild Angelsen
Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Maria Brockhaus
Maria Brockhaus University of Helsinki
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Sven Wunder
Sven Wunder European Forest Institute
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Fergus L. Sinclair
Fergus L. Sinclair Bangor University

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