Allan Larson

Datos Biográficos

ID119243
NOMBREAllan Larson
NOMBRESAllan
APELLIDOLarson
FIRMALARSON A
AFILIACIONESCenter for International Forestry Research
ORCID0000-0002-2950-8583
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS65
TOTAL DE CITAS812
TOTAL COMO AUTOR65
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1960
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H14

  • Women's tenure security on collective lands

    Open AccessRuth Meinzen-Dick, Cheryl R Do et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2025Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

  • Cornered by Corona while writing a master’s thesis - Juggling multiple and opposing roles in a confined time and space

    Open AccessHelle Merete Nordentoft, Pia Cort et al.ARTICLEQualitative Studies2024

    Writing a master’s thesis is often loaded with expectations and sometimes also a certain amount of anxiety. In this regard, previous research has mostly focused on the importance of the supervisor–supervisee relationship and not how students’ everyday lives and working conditions affect their writing process. Based on a single case study, we reveal tacit understandings and typifications of how everyday life affects master’s thesis writing, Lookin…

  • Trends in forest livelihoods research – Taking stock in 2024

    Open AccessI N S Djenontin, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024Referencias: 29

  • Forty-year multi-scale land cover change and political ecology data reveal a dynamic and regenerative process of forests in Peruvian Indigenous Territories

    Open AccessA E Bennett, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2023Referencias: 5

    This article explores deforestation and reforestation dynamics over 415,749 hectares of 25 titled Indigenous Community Lands (ICLs) in the Peruvian Amazon over forty years at three scales: total area, regions, and communities. We focus on ICLs as the territorial unit of analysis, as they are increasingly discussed regarding their importance for conservation. Additionally indigenous communities (ICs) are a too-marginalized group in the Amazon that…

  • Understanding Difference to Build Bridges among Stakeholders

    Open AccessJuan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Sarmiento Barletti et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2022

    As interest grows in supporting multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) to address land-use and climate change, it is important to understand how these processes operate from the perspectives of their participants. The academic literature on their equity largely presents a dichotomy: participatory processes either allow for horizontal decision-making with more equitable and effective outcomes for local populations, or they mask technologies of governance…

  • Researching inequality and lifelong education from 1982 to 2020

    Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, Sarah Galloway et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Lifelong…2022

    This article explores the International Journal of Lifelong Education archives in the period 1982–2020. We analyse how the Journal engages with the issue of inequality. This is accomplished by systematically identifying relevant articles within the archives, and reviewing these whilst taking account of the societal, cultural and political or economic contexts in which they were written. Most articles identified for review focused on specific disa…

  • Church Contextual Factors Associated With Latinx Physical Activity and Park Use

    Lilian G Pérez, Deborah A Cohen et al.ARTICLEFamily & Community Health2022

    Churches can be important settings for promoting physical activity (PA) among Latinx populations. Little is known about what factors across the church context-social, organizational, and physical (outdoor spaces)-are associated with Latinx PA to inform faith-based PA interventions. This study investigated associations of church contextual factors with Latinx PA. We used cross-sectional data from a Latinx adult sample recruited from 6 churches tha…

  • What is forest tenure (in)security? Insights from participatory perspective analysis

    Open AccessAllan Larson, A M Larson et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 13

    Over the past two decades, growing recognition of forest-based Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) sparked forest tenure reforms to formalize IP and LC rights to forests and forest lands through a variety of mechanisms. Nevertheless, tenure security, an intended objective of such reforms, has received less attention, despite being integral to the life and livelihoods of IPs and LCs and important for forests. Formal rights - a t…

  • Coordinating forest tenure reform

    Open AccessRodd Myers, Micah R Fisher et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 29

    As forest tenure reform is mainstreamed around the world, outcomes are increasingly determined by the institutions that are responsible for administering its operationalisation and translating policy into implementation. This global study examines state institutional contexts of tenure reform in Kenya, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, and Peru. Interviews were administered in 2016–2017 using a fixed questionnaire applied across all countries involving 2…

  • A place at the table is not enough

    Open AccessAllan Larson, Anne M Larson et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Citada por: 17Referencias: 4

    Virtually all major efforts to address global problems regarding land and resource use call for a multi-stakeholder process. At the same time, there is growing interest in, and commitment to, inclusion of previously marginalized groups – e.g., Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs), smallholders, and women in these groups – in decisions related to sustainable land and resource governance. Nevertheless, multi-stakeholder platforms and fo…

  • Qualification, socialisation and/or subjectification – three international organisations’ prioritisation of the purposes of adult education and learning from the 1970s to the 2010s

    Allan Larson, Pia CortARTICLEInternational Journal of Lifelong…2022Citada por: 5Referencias: 39

    This article examines the purposes UNESCO, OECD and EU historically have attributed to adult education and learning. The aim is to explore changes in international adult education and learning policies from the 1970s until the present day and outline how different international organisations have pushed for specific conceptualisations of what ‘adult education and learning is good for’. The analysis draws on Biesta’s domains of educational purpose…

  • Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance

    Open AccessBlake D Ratner, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022Citada por: 1

    Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approach. We provide a comparative analysis of eight landscape-level MSPs spanning seven countries (Peru, Brazil, India, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and a cross-border case from Kenya and Somalia), representing a dive…

  • Introduction - Multi-stakeholder forums and the promise of more equitable and sustainable land and resource use

    Open AccessSarmiento Barletti, J P Sarmiento Barletti et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2021

    Multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) have become a popular mechanism in global development and conservation circles, given the urgency to find transformative approaches to address climate change and unsustainable development. In this current context, it is important to take stock of MSFs, an example of a participatory mechanism that is emerging as a new 'solution'. The papers in this Special Issue of the International Forestry Review derive from a mul…

  • The costs of elite-oriented multi-stakeholder forums to address deforestation

    Open AccessMarina Londres, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2021

    This paper examines the Green Municipalities Program (Programa Municípios Verdes – PMV) – a major multi-stakeholder forum designed to combat deforestation – in Pará state in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. We qualitatively analyzed in-depth interviews with 39 people with different perspectives: respondents with deep knowledge of the context but no direct involvement in the program, organizers of the program, diverse program participants, and divers…

  • Politics and power in territorial planning

    Open AccessJazmín Gonzales Tovar, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2021

    The use of multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) in territorial planning has gained global popularity. These MSFs aim to bring diverse actors together to collaboratively and equitably develop a plan that assigns optimal land uses to a territory. However, as promoting particular land uses and benefits for some actors often comes at a cost to others, territorial planning MSFs may reproduce or even exacerbate, rather than mitigate, conflicts and asymmetri…

  • Organizing for transformation? How and why organizers plan their multi-stakeholder forums

    Open AccessSarmiento Barletti, J P Sarmiento Barletti et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2021

    Multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) have received much attention from policymakers and development and conservation practitioners as a transformative solution for more equitable coordination and decision-making over environmental challenges. Studies on "invited spaces" have previously shown the importance of balancing power relations and attending to context. To what extent do the plans and expectations of MSF organizers reflect these previous lesson…

  • Trust-building and leadership in multi-stakeholder forums

    Open AccessA R Tamara, A Tamara et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2021

    Multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) are coordination spaces that enable discussions, negotiations, and joint planning between different kinds of actors. Proponents of MSFs claim that bringing different actors to the same table may help solve complex problems. Nevertheless, an MSF's process and outcomes are affected by its leadership and whether participants are able to trust each other. This paper examines the influence of trust and leadership in thr…

  • Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures

    Open AccessLaura Notess, Peter Veit et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2021

    Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process can be time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can acquire land relatively quickly and find shortcuts ar…

  • Hot topics in governance for forests and trees

    Open AccessAllan Larson, A M Larson et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021Citada por: 10Referencias: 26

    We are living in a time of crisis on planet Earth. Urgent calls for transformational change are getting louder. Technical solutions have an important role to play in addressing pressing global challenges, but alone they are not enough. After all, who decides what kind of transformation is needed, of what, and for whom? What principles guide those decisions, and how are decision-makers held accountable? This commentary article argues that these go…

  • Learning to learn in tropical forests

    Open AccessKristen Evans, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2020

    From 2011–2015, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) trained field teams in Nicaragua in Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) methods. ACM is a social learning-based approach to help forest communities manage their natural resources in a more equitable and sustainable way and respond to change. This paper presents the lessons-learned from the training and field work. It argues that understanding and building social learning p…

  • Tenure reform for better forestry

    Open AccessSafia Aggarwal, Allan Larson et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2020Citada por: 6Referencias: 6

    The global community is currently grappling with multiple and overlapping social and environmental threats. These include the climate emergency, COVID-19 and the threat of widespread hunger, and the accelerating loss of biodiversity. All of these threats point to an urgent need to restore and sustainably manage land and forests. Studies are pointing to the critical role of tenure reform, and in particular strengthening collective forest tenure, a…

  • Forest tenure and the Sustainable Development Goals – A critical view

    Open AccessPia Katila, Constance L Mcdermott et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2020Citada por: 3Referencias: 9

    Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form an overarching framework to guide development at all scales from local to global. They are intended to holistically address sustainability across its economic, ecological and social dimensions. A core tenant of this holistic approach is that all dimensions of sustainability are interlinked, such that changes in one dimension can have pivotal effects on others. This paper focuses on …

  • Learning through practice? Learning from the Redd+ demonstration project, Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) in Indonesia

    Open AccessAnna Sanders, Anna J P Sanders et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 66

    Despite a growing recognition of the importance of social learning in governing and managing land use, the understanding and practice of learning has received limited attention from researchers. In global environmental programs and projects aimed at supporting sustainable land use in developing countries, learning is often promoted but without explicit learning goals. The focus may be on capacity building and community participation, and on testi…

  • Designing for engagement

    Open AccessJuan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Sarmiento Barletti et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Citada por: 10Referencias: 9

    This Realist Synthesis Review (RSR) examines the scholarly literature on multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) set up to support efforts towards more sustainable land use. In this review, we focus on subnational MSFs that include at least one grassroots and one government actor. MSFs have been presented, especially by practitioners, as a panacea to address land-use change and support climate mitigation, such as through “landscape” or jurisdictional app…

  • Unrelenting games

    Open AccessAnna Sanders, Anna J P Sanders et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Citada por: 10Referencias: 37

    Land use change is often a result of negotiation between different interests. Focusing on negotiation practices helps to provide a nuanced understanding of land use change processes over time. We examine negotiations within a concession model for land development in the southern tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan province in Indonesia. This region can be described as a ‘resource frontier’, where historical landscape transformations from lar…