Robin Loveridge

TL;DR: The WISP protocol provides practical, statistically validated guidance to support the design of wellbeing assessments, maintaining coherence between universal theory and local realities and promoting a pragmatic approach suitable for a range of social and environmental contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of certified community forests on wellbeing and conservation effectiveness was assessed, including gender inequality, elite capture, and interaction effects with neighboring national PAs, and the authors found that certified CFs positively impacted wellbeing, conservation effectiveness, and reduced gender inequality.

TL;DR: C Cambodia supports populations of three Critically Endangered vulture species that are believed to have become isolated from the rest of the species’ global range, but a recent spike in the number of reports of the use of poisons in hunting practices suggests the need to re-evaluate the conservation situation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impact of forest protection on a novel measure of wellbeing that incorporates both objective and subjective components of people's lives, and find that household perceived need for firewood is compared with actual consumption in order to provide a simple metric of firewood sufficiency.