Stephanie Mansourian

Biographic Data

ID2012524
NAMEStephanie Mansourian
GIVEN NAMESStephanie
FAMILY NAMEMansourian
SIGNATUREMANSOURIAN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Geneva
ORCID0000-0002-0897-514X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS64
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Forwarding forest restoration

    Open AccessMariana C Hernández-Montilla Mariana C Hernández-Montilla, Mariana…ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals. To better understand existing and future challenges and opportunities, we convened a diverse panel of 25 international experts from academia, …

  • Sustainable forest transitions

    Open AccessJohan A Oldekop, Katie Devenish et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Restoring forests is key to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises and can benefit forest-dependent communities.However, frequent social and ecological trade-offs between these goals pose significant challenges for forest restoration efforts.Our understanding of how to maximize positive social and ecological restoration outcomes is hindered by the absence of a social-ecological theory of forest restoration.We present a new analytical ''su…

  • A guiding framework for implementing forest landscape restoration in the tropics

    C Sabogal, J Blaser et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2024

    Interest in forest landscape restoration (FLR) is high, but there is limited guidance on how to implement it. In this contribution, we aim to synthesise the salient points of the voluntary FLR guidelines developed by ITTO (2020) and demonstrate their application through three case studies. The objectives of the ITTO guidelines are to increase the positive contributions of trees and forests to the ecological health, productivity and resilience of …

  • Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration

    Open AccessStephanie Mansourian, W M Adams et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024References: 2

  • Cross-sector challenges in Ethiopian forest and landscape restoration governance

    Open AccessDaniel Wiegant, Stephanie Mansourian et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2023Cited by: 2References: 9

    The federal government of Ethiopia set a national target to restore 15 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2030. While forest and landscape restoration governance is intended to be a multi-actor process through which various land uses are coordinated, in practice it turns out to be difficult to bring specialised government agencies together to achieve restoration targets. We conducted a policy document review, 56 semi-structured …

  • Forests, trees and the eradication of poverty

    Open AccessD C Miller, Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2022Cited by: 3References: 29

  • Forests, trees and poverty alleviation

    Open AccessD C Miller, Stephanie Mansourian et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021Cited by: 3References: 26

  • Diverse interpretations of governance and their relevance to forest landscape restoration

    Open AccessStephanie Mansourian, Anne SgardARTICLELand Use Policy2021Cited by: 4References: 59

  • The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation

    Open AccessNiamh Dawson, Neil M Dawson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021Cited by: 40

    Dawson, N. M., B. Coolsaet, E. J. Sterling, R. Loveridge, N. D. Gross-Camp, S. Wongbusarakum, K. K. Sangha, L. M. Scherl, H. Phuong Phan, N. Zafra-Calvo, W. G. Lavey, P. Byakagaba, C. J. Idrobo, A. Chenet, N. J. Bennett, S. Mansourian, and F. J. Rosado-May. 2021. The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation. Ecology and Society 26(3):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12625-260319

  • Identifying governance problems and solutons for forest landscape restoration in protected area landscapes

    Open AccessStephanie Mansourian, Gretchen Walters et al.ARTICLEPARKS2019

    Governance challenges -including ownership, decision-making, accountability, and sharing of costs and benefitscan impede forest landscape restoration in protected area landscapes. Understanding and addressing these challenges can improve the outcomes of forest landscape restoration. We tested the utility of applying an existing framework that focuses on three actions to understand governance -mapping stakeholders, contextualising and rescaling. T…

  • From addressing symptoms to tackling the illness

    Open AccessStephanie Mansourian, John A Parrotta et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2019Cited by: 5References: 3

  • Governance and Restoration

    Stephanie MansourianCHAPTERRoutledge Handbook of Ecological…2017

    This chapter discusses the issue of governance. Environmental – and in fact broader – governance sets the framework for effective management of natural resources. Important shifts in governance of natural resources have appeared in the last few decades: while until the 1970s, governance was synonymous with the 'command and control' nature of central governments, trends indicate a shift towards decentralization and the expanding role of both civil…

  • Understanding the Relationship between Governance and Forest Landscape Restoration

    Open AccessStephanie MansourianARTICLEConservation and Society2016

    Restoring forested landscapes is being promoted widely as a solution to the world's deforestation and degradation problems, as well as for climate change mitigation and adaptation, for supporting poor rural communities, and for water and soil protection. Yet, while practitioners understand reasonably well many of the technical aspects of forest restoration, they have a much poorer understanding of governance dimensions. Governance challenges come…

  • Novel governance for forest landscape restoration in Fandriana Marolambo, Madagascar

    Open AccessStephanie Mansourian, Appolinaire Razafimahatratra et al.ARTICLEWorld Development Perspectives2016Cited by: 7

  • The Links between Protected Areas, Faiths, and Sacred Natural Sites

    Open AccessNicole Dudley, Nigel Dudley et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2009

    Most people follow and are influenced by some kind of spiritual faith. We examined two ways in which religious faiths can in turn influence biodiversity conservation in protected areas. First, biodiversity conservation is influenced through the direct and often effective protection afforded to wild species in sacred natural sites and in seminatural habitats around religious buildings. Sacred natural sites are almost certainly the world's oldest f…

  • Forest Restoration in Landscapes

    Nicole Dudley, Stephanie Mansourian et al.BOOKForest Restoration in Landscapes2005