Two special issues of Journal of Forest and Livelihood - one issue on Forest Tenure and other on Climate Change - are now available online. Journal of Forest and Livelihood is a peer-reviewed journal published by ForestAction Nepal. The purpose of the journal is to document and disseminate the insights, lessons and innovations arising from various dimensions of forestry and rural livelihoods in Nepal.
Contents - Vol 7(1): Special Issue on Forest Tenure
- Understanding Tenure Security in Community Forestry
Harisharan Luintel and Ram B. Chhetri - Forest Tenure Regimes and Their Impact on Livelihoods in Nepal
Krishna P. Acharya, Jagannath Adhikari and Dilraj Khanal - Trends and Impact of Forest Tenure Reforms in Asia: Cases from India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal and the Philippines
Ganga Ram Dahal, and Krishna Prasad Adhikari - Handover of Community Forestry: A Political Decision or a Technical Process?
Naya Sharma Paudel, Mani Ram Banjade and Ganga Ram Dahal - Economic Potential of Non-timber Forest Products in Nepal: Myth or Reality?
Mani Ram Banjade and Naya Sharma Paudel - Mobile Pastoralism in Crisis: Challenges, Conflicts and Status of Pasture Tenure in Nepal Mountains
Mani Ram Banjade and Naya Sharma Paudel - Exploring Economic and Market Dimensions of Forestry Sector in Nepal
Sindhu Prasad Dhungana and Ram Chandra Bhattarai - Securing Rights to Livelihoods through Public Land Management: Opportunities and Challenges
Meena Kunwar, Peter Neil, Bimala Rai Paudyal and Ramu Subedi
Contents - Vol 8(1): Special Issue on Climate Change
- Global Warming in Nepal: Challenges and Policy Imperatives
Pashupati Chaudhary and Kamal P Aryal - Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation: Some Issues and Considerations
Bhim Adhikari - Carbon Financing and Community Forestry: A Review of the Questions, Challenges and the Case of Nepal
Samantha Staddon - Reducing Emissions from Nepal’s Community Managed Forests: Discussion for COP 14 in Poznan
Bhaskar Singh Karky and Kamal Banskota - From Green to REDD, from Aid to Trade: Translating the Forest Carbon Concept into Practice
Bharat Pokharel and Jagadish Baral - Nepal’s Community Forestry and REDD: Issues and Challenges
Ngamindra Dahal and Kamal Banskota - Nepal's National REDD Framework – How to Start?
Rajan Kotru - Reduction in Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in Developing Countries like Nepal
Narayan Prasad Dhital - Carbon Status in Forests of Nepal: An Overview
Bishwa Nath Oli and Kumud Shrestha - Carbon Liability, Market Price Risk and Social Impacts of Reduced Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Programme
Bhubaneswor Dhakal - Carbon Ownership in Community Managed Forests
Rupa Basnet - Warming up the Climate Change Debate: A Challenge to Policy Based on Adaptation
Andrea J. Nightingale - Integrated Approach for Climate Change Adaptation
Gehendra Bahadur Gurung and Dinanath Bhandari - Changing Climate in of a Mountain Sub -watershed of Nepal
Babu Ram Lamichhane and Keshav Datt Awasthi - Perception of People: Does Climate Change have Positive Impacts?
Binod Chapagain and Ramu Subedi - Agrobiodiversity Management: An Opportunity for Mainstreaming Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Bimal R. Regmi, Lalita Thapa, Rojee Suwal, Sudha Khadka, G.B Sharma and B.B. Tamang