Research examined how partnerships of state and civil society could function to manage commercially valuable non-wood forest products in Community Forests in Cameroon. Results indicate an effective governance arrangement should include the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Community Fo...

While decentralization is a prominent theme in contemporary natural resource policy and management discourse, questions have been raised concerning the sustainability of participatory approaches. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research on common pool resource management and participation, we d...

Climate change presents additional challenges to a diverse country like Cameroon that shares the Congo Basin rainforest. Not only is the population vulnerable to the direct effects of climate change, forest-dependent communities are also vulnerable to changing environmental policy that may affect ...

Tropical forests have a central role to play in a new mechanism designed to mitigate climate change, known as REDD+ (Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Through semistructured interviews and content analysis of relevant documents, the perceptions of the opportunities and ch...

Rev. of In Search of Common Ground: Adaptive Collaborative Management in Cameroon by M. Chimere Diaw, Tony Aseh and Ravi Prabhu

Rev. of Tenure in REDD: Start-point or afterthought? by L. Cotula and J. Mayers

Recent concerns about the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus (WNV) through North America
have prompted a number of regional studies of mosquito species composition and distribution. In this study, we report
on intensive surveys of mosquitoes on Prince Edward Island (PEI). Larvae ...

Provides an overview of insects and their close relatives. Coverage includes insect classification, behavior, ecology, genetics and evolution, physiology, and management, and references to relevant literature. All the major arthropod groups are addressed, along with many important families and speci...

Rev. of The caddisfly family Phryganeidae (Trichoptera) by G.B. Wiggins

The fishing (dock or wharf) spiders (Dolomedes spp. Latreille, 1804) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada were surveyed
through a combination of new collecting and examination of specimens from the Nova Scotia Museum and the New
Brunswick Museum. Four species (Dolomedes tenebrosus Hentz, 18...