Margaret Skutsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1572885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Skutsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Skutsch |
| SIGNATURE | SKUTSCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6120-4945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Relational values and management of plant resources in two communities in a highly biodiverse area in western Mexico
Desafíos jurídicos y políticos de la Enaredd+ México: Legalidad en la participación social y propiedad forestal
El objetivo del estudio es realizar una revisión del estado actual de la legalidad en la participación social y propiedad forestal reconocidas en la Estrategia Nacional para la Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación forestal (ENAREDD+), a fin de identificar los principales desafíos jurídicos y políticos que pudieran constituir áreas de oportunidad en el éxito de los principios de REDD+ en México. Se realizó una revisión de la lite…
Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: A case study in Jalisco, Mexico
The analysis of resource management strategies is considered to be relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems. In Mexico, ejidos are the most important of the land tenure institutions that grant access to resources inside communities. Although it is recognized that an ejido’s internal structure creates different social groups, few studies have explored their resource management strategies. The aim of this study was to characte…
Redd: If communities are the solution, what is the problem
While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national plans for REDD+ (as exemplified by proposals to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for funding) focus strongly on ‘communities’ and local actors. This is partly to ensure that communities are not harmed by the program, and may benefit from it; but the documents show that…
Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: A comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model
Ecosystem service (ES) models can only inform policy design adequately if they incorporate ecological processes. We used the Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL) model, to address following questions for Mexico, Bolivia and Brazilian Amazon: (i) How different are C stocks and C sequestration quantifications under standard (when soil and litter C and heterotrophic respiration are not considered) and comprehensive (including all C stock and heter…
Adapting Redd+ policy to sink conditions
Impacts of Finnish cooperation in the Mexican policy making process: From the community forest management to the liberalization of forest services
The aim of this paper is highlight how Mexican-Finnish forestry cooperation (1982–1994) supported major shifts in Mexican national forest policy, by identifying the policy changes and relating these to the strategy taken by the cooperation program. We based our analyses in two proposals: four pathways of influence as well as context-specific impact study. The methodology was carried out through a context-specific impact study; it consisted of des…
Policy for pro-poor distribution of Redd+ benefits in Mexico: How the legal and technical challenges are being addressed
Yes-in-my-backyard’: Spatial differences in the valuation of forest services and local co-benefits for carbon markets in México
Reprint of ‘Yes-in-my-backyard’: Spatial differences in the valuation of forest services and local co-benefits for carbon markets in México
Identification and quantification of drivers of forest degradation in tropical dry forests: A case study in Western Mexico
How countries link Redd+ interventions to drivers in their readiness plans: Implications for monitoring systems
Countries participating in the REDD+ scheme are in the readiness phase, designing policy interventions to address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation (DD). In order for REDD+ interventions to be effective, it is essential that they take into account the specific drivers that they aim to address. Moreover it is crucial to design systems that monitor the effectiveness of the planned interventions. In this article we provide a comprehens…
Estimating the opportunity costs of activities that cause degradation in tropical dry forest: Implications for Redd
Deforestation and land tenure in Mexico: A response to Bonilla-Moheno et al
Rights to carbon and payments for services rendered under Redd: Options for the case of Mexico
The role of community carbon monitoring for Redd: A review of experiences
Monitoring, reporting and verification for national Redd + programmes: Two proposals
Different options have been suggested by Parties to the UNFCCC (United Framework Convention on Climate Change) for inclusion in national approaches to REDD and REDD + (reduced deforestation, reduced degradation, enhancement of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forest, and conservation of forest carbon stocks). This paper proposes that from the practical and technical points of view of designing action for REDD and REDD + at local an…
Alternative models for carbon payments to communities under Redd: A comparison using the Polis model of actor inducements
Many tropical developing countries are considering using a form of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to reward communities involved in Community Forest Management (CFM) for reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. Such payments would fall under the scope of national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) programmes which will claim carbon credits or funding under future provisions of the…
Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and Social Impacts of an Incipient Biofuel Program
Skutsch, M., E. de los Rios, S. Solis, E. Riegelhaupt, D. Hinojosa, S. Gerfert, Y. Gao, and O. Masera. 2011. Jatropha in Mexico: environmental and social impacts of an incipient biofuel program. Ecology and Society 16(4): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04448-160411
Deforestation and the Social Impacts of Soy for Biodiesel: Perspectives of Farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon
Lima, M., M. Skutsch, and G. de Medeiros Costa 2011. Deforestation and the social impacts of soy for biodiesel: perspectives of farmers in the south Brazilian Amazon. Ecology and Society 16(4): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04366-160404
The cost of carbon abatement through community forest management in Nepal Himalaya
Crediting carbon in dry forests: The potential for community forest management in West Africa
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
Clearing the way for reducing emissions from tropical deforestation
National forest policy as a platform for biosphere carbon management: The case of community forestry in Cameroon
Redd: If communities are the solution, what is the problem
While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national plans for REDD+ (as exemplified by proposals to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for funding) focus strongly on ‘communities’ and local actors. This is partly to ensure that communities are not harmed by the program, and may benefit from it; but the documents show that…
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
Estimating the opportunity costs of activities that cause degradation in tropical dry forest: Implications for Redd
Deforestation and the Social Impacts of Soy for Biodiesel: Perspectives of Farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon
Lima, M., M. Skutsch, and G. de Medeiros Costa 2011. Deforestation and the social impacts of soy for biodiesel: perspectives of farmers in the south Brazilian Amazon. Ecology and Society 16(4): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04366-160404
Protocols, treaties, and action: The 'climate change process' viewed through gender spectacles
This paper starts by assessing the extent to which gender considerations have been taken into account in the international processes concerning the development of climate change policy. Finding that there has been very little attention to gender issues, neither in the protocols and treaties nor in the debates around them, the paper goes on to consider whether there are in fact any meaningful gender considerations as regards (a) emissions of green…
Policy for pro-poor distribution of Redd+ benefits in Mexico: How the legal and technical challenges are being addressed
Rights to carbon and payments for services rendered under Redd: Options for the case of Mexico
Clearing the way for reducing emissions from tropical deforestation
Alternative models for carbon payments to communities under Redd: A comparison using the Polis model of actor inducements
Many tropical developing countries are considering using a form of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to reward communities involved in Community Forest Management (CFM) for reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. Such payments would fall under the scope of national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) programmes which will claim carbon credits or funding under future provisions of the…
Crediting carbon in dry forests: The potential for community forest management in West Africa
National forest policy as a platform for biosphere carbon management: The case of community forestry in Cameroon
Impacts of Finnish cooperation in the Mexican policy making process: From the community forest management to the liberalization of forest services
The aim of this paper is highlight how Mexican-Finnish forestry cooperation (1982–1994) supported major shifts in Mexican national forest policy, by identifying the policy changes and relating these to the strategy taken by the cooperation program. We based our analyses in two proposals: four pathways of influence as well as context-specific impact study. The methodology was carried out through a context-specific impact study; it consisted of des…
Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and Social Impacts of an Incipient Biofuel Program
Skutsch, M., E. de los Rios, S. Solis, E. Riegelhaupt, D. Hinojosa, S. Gerfert, Y. Gao, and O. Masera. 2011. Jatropha in Mexico: environmental and social impacts of an incipient biofuel program. Ecology and Society 16(4): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04448-160411
Adapting Redd+ policy to sink conditions
Identification and quantification of drivers of forest degradation in tropical dry forests: A case study in Western Mexico
Deforestation and land tenure in Mexico: A response to Bonilla-Moheno et al
Forestry by the People for the People – Some Major Problems in Tanzania's Village Afforestation Programme
A programme of village afforestation for fuelwood was announced in Tanzania in 1967, but despite the government's commitment, it had shown little result by 1978. A study of 18 villages was conducted, nine of which had started woodlots and nine of which had not. By comparative analysis some factors which appear to be connected to a village's espousal of the programme are identified. The most important of these are the absolute quantity of fuelwood…
Protocols, treaties, and action: The 'climate change process' viewed through gender spectacles
This paper starts by assessing the extent to which gender considerations have been taken into account in the international processes concerning the development of climate change policy. Finding that there has been very little attention to gender issues, neither in the protocols and treaties nor in the debates around them, the paper goes on to consider whether there are in fact any meaningful gender considerations as regards (a) emissions of green…
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
Clearing the way for reducing emissions from tropical deforestation
National forest policy as a platform for biosphere carbon management: The case of community forestry in Cameroon
The cost of carbon abatement through community forest management in Nepal Himalaya
Crediting carbon in dry forests: The potential for community forest management in West Africa
Monitoring, reporting and verification for national Redd + programmes: Two proposals
Different options have been suggested by Parties to the UNFCCC (United Framework Convention on Climate Change) for inclusion in national approaches to REDD and REDD + (reduced deforestation, reduced degradation, enhancement of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forest, and conservation of forest carbon stocks). This paper proposes that from the practical and technical points of view of designing action for REDD and REDD + at local an…
Alternative models for carbon payments to communities under Redd: A comparison using the Polis model of actor inducements
Many tropical developing countries are considering using a form of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to reward communities involved in Community Forest Management (CFM) for reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. Such payments would fall under the scope of national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) programmes which will claim carbon credits or funding under future provisions of the…
Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and Social Impacts of an Incipient Biofuel Program
Skutsch, M., E. de los Rios, S. Solis, E. Riegelhaupt, D. Hinojosa, S. Gerfert, Y. Gao, and O. Masera. 2011. Jatropha in Mexico: environmental and social impacts of an incipient biofuel program. Ecology and Society 16(4): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04448-160411
Deforestation and the Social Impacts of Soy for Biodiesel: Perspectives of Farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon
Lima, M., M. Skutsch, and G. de Medeiros Costa 2011. Deforestation and the social impacts of soy for biodiesel: perspectives of farmers in the south Brazilian Amazon. Ecology and Society 16(4): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04366-160404
The role of community carbon monitoring for Redd: A review of experiences
Rights to carbon and payments for services rendered under Redd: Options for the case of Mexico
How countries link Redd+ interventions to drivers in their readiness plans: Implications for monitoring systems
Countries participating in the REDD+ scheme are in the readiness phase, designing policy interventions to address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation (DD). In order for REDD+ interventions to be effective, it is essential that they take into account the specific drivers that they aim to address. Moreover it is crucial to design systems that monitor the effectiveness of the planned interventions. In this article we provide a comprehens…
Estimating the opportunity costs of activities that cause degradation in tropical dry forest: Implications for Redd
Deforestation and land tenure in Mexico: A response to Bonilla-Moheno et al
Yes-in-my-backyard’: Spatial differences in the valuation of forest services and local co-benefits for carbon markets in México
Reprint of ‘Yes-in-my-backyard’: Spatial differences in the valuation of forest services and local co-benefits for carbon markets in México
Identification and quantification of drivers of forest degradation in tropical dry forests: A case study in Western Mexico
Impacts of Finnish cooperation in the Mexican policy making process: From the community forest management to the liberalization of forest services
The aim of this paper is highlight how Mexican-Finnish forestry cooperation (1982–1994) supported major shifts in Mexican national forest policy, by identifying the policy changes and relating these to the strategy taken by the cooperation program. We based our analyses in two proposals: four pathways of influence as well as context-specific impact study. The methodology was carried out through a context-specific impact study; it consisted of des…
Policy for pro-poor distribution of Redd+ benefits in Mexico: How the legal and technical challenges are being addressed
Adapting Redd+ policy to sink conditions
Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: A comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model
Ecosystem service (ES) models can only inform policy design adequately if they incorporate ecological processes. We used the Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL) model, to address following questions for Mexico, Bolivia and Brazilian Amazon: (i) How different are C stocks and C sequestration quantifications under standard (when soil and litter C and heterotrophic respiration are not considered) and comprehensive (including all C stock and heter…
Desafíos jurídicos y políticos de la Enaredd+ México: Legalidad en la participación social y propiedad forestal
El objetivo del estudio es realizar una revisión del estado actual de la legalidad en la participación social y propiedad forestal reconocidas en la Estrategia Nacional para la Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación forestal (ENAREDD+), a fin de identificar los principales desafíos jurídicos y políticos que pudieran constituir áreas de oportunidad en el éxito de los principios de REDD+ en México. Se realizó una revisión de la lite…
Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: A case study in Jalisco, Mexico
The analysis of resource management strategies is considered to be relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems. In Mexico, ejidos are the most important of the land tenure institutions that grant access to resources inside communities. Although it is recognized that an ejido’s internal structure creates different social groups, few studies have explored their resource management strategies. The aim of this study was to characte…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 works) · Ecology (20 works) · Business (18 works) · Economics (18 works) · Geography (18 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Environmental Science (16 works) · Forest Management and Policy (15 works) · Natural resource economics (13 works) · Deforestation (computer science (11 works)