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2026

Integration of Indigenous Knowledge with Scientific Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in Forest Management: A Systematic Review

Adrita Choudhury Tithi, 112 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Indigenous Knowledge, Scientific Knowledge, Climate Change Adaptation, Forest Management, Knowledge Integration, Two-Eyed Seeing, Integration Pathways
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Effective Seed-Dispersers as Drivers of Natural Regeneration in Fragmented Landscapes

Pablo Cantón Pérez, 44 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: AgroParisTech
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Comparative Analysis of Urban Forest Policy: Case Studies of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Lahore (Pakistan)

Mohammad Taha Arsalan Qureshi, 103 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Urban Forest; Urban Forest Policy; Policy Issues; Policy Goals; Policy Instruments; Policy Implementation Provisions; Qualitative Content Analysis; Comparative Analysis
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Governing Tiger-Human Conflicts: Institutional Effectiveness and Actor Adaptations in Wayanad, Kerala

Amritha Priya, 155 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC), Tiger-human conflict, Institutional effectiveness, Formal and Informal Institutions, Actor adaptation strategies, Adaptive comanagement, Coexistence
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Governance Capacities for Climate Change Adaptation in New Zealand’s Forestry Sector: Enablers, Constraints, and Mechanisms of Mobilisation

Lilly Tinzmann, 70 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Climate change adaptation, Forestry, Governance capacity, Capacity mobilisation, Multilevel governance, New Zealand
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Agroforestry Labelling’s Potential to Incentivise Agrarian Tree Planting in The Republic of Ireland A Case Study of County Cork

Giacomo Degano, 100 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Agroforestry, Ecolabelling, Willingness to pay, Technological innovation adoption, Diversification strategy, Sequential mixed methodology, Choice experiment
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Ecological Knowledge and Drivers of Tolerance for the Indian Grey Wolf and Striped Hyena in Purulia District, West Bengal, India

Chetan Ashok Iragar, 102 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Indian grey wolf, striped hyena, local ecological knowledge, tolerance, human–carnivore coexistence, community-based conservation, Purulia, West Bengal
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2025

Genetic Variation and Seed Source Characterization of Maesopsis eminii in Rwanda; Implications of Seed Collection and Afforestation in Rural Livelihoods

Bolanle Lizzy Bamidele, 48 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
  • Keywords: Restoration, Tree seed system, Seed cooperative, Quantitative genetics
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Agroecological forest food systems design based on Maya Q’eqchi’ traditional ecological knowledge: A case of tropical forest restoration and food sovereignty in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Boris Llamas Menchú, 94 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
  • Keywords: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Maya Q’eqchi’, Tropical Forest, Restoration, Cultural Importance Value (CVe), Threatened status
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The role of village savings and loan associations (VSLAS) in promoting climate-resilient agroforestry practices among cocoa farmers in Wassa Amenfi district, Ghana

Janga Bdr Basnet, 75 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
  • Keywords: Agroforestry, Cocoa, Climate resilience, Logistic regression, Propensity score matching, Smallholder farmers, Village Savings and Loan Associations
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‘To be eating always, or to eat your cake once’: how a gold rush threatens the future of cocoa in a transformed social-ecological system in Ghana

Orla Jane Kilroy, 67 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
  • Keywords: Small-scale gold mining, Cocoa, Land tenure, Rural livelihoods, Ghana
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Multi-seasonal remote sensing-based aboveground biomass estimation in Nepal: A case study in Kankali Community Forest

Pooja Regmi, 65 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
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Environmental products and bioeconomy: A case of pine resin’s enterprises in Nepal

Radha Joshi, 62 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
  • Keywords: Bioeconomy, Constraints, Opportunities, Pines resin, Processing firms
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Trading trees for votes? State, human and more-than-human transformations in the politics and management of tropical forest fires in the Chiquitanía, Bolivia

Tosana Maria Töben, 122 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: University of Copenhagen
  • Keywords: Tropical forest fires, Amazon, land rights, environmental governance, political ecology, photovoice, livelihood adaptation, socio-nature assemblages, traditional burning, territory, Pyrocene
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Tree biomass, carbon stocks, and flying insect biomass across different habitat types in Danish landscapes

Sachin Timilsina, 97 pp.

  • University: AgroParisTech
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Adoption drivers of carbon farming and sustainable practices among small farmers in Western Kenya

Mohan Krishna Chowdry Avilineni, 169 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Czech University Of Life Sciences Prague
  • Keywords: Agroforestry, carbon payments, climate-smart agriculture, gender dynamics, participation drivers
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Evaluating Natural Climate Solution Metrics in the Tropics

Maria Adelia Widijanto, 51 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: AgroParisTech
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TRENDY-Emulator: A Bias-Corrected Deep Learning Emulator of Terrestrial Carbon and Water Dynamics

Éamon Ó Catháin, 67 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: AgroParisTech
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Ecohydrological Drivers and Limitation Transitions of Precipitation Induced Respiration in East African Savannas: Insights from a Hybrid Modelling Approach

Richard Slevin, 44 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: AgroParisTech
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EUDR or EUD-aren’t: Assessment of the inclusion of other wooded lands into the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products and its ecological implications on the Cerrado biome

Mathew Tello Manzo, 55 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: AgroParisTech
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Wolf Population in the Italian Alps Within the Framework of Rewilding Processes: a Preliminary Analysis of Economic Impacts

Giuseppe Randon, 132 pp.

  • University: University of Padua
  • Keywords: livestock, tourism, wildlife, socioeconomic, mapping
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Individual-based modelling application for intraspecific variation in habitat selection of white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in central Europe

Jannatul Ferdous, 95 pp. , Download Thesis

  • University: Technische Universität Dresden
  • Keywords: Individual based model, Resource selection function, White stork, Agricultural landscape, Habitat selection
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