Forest Governance
The ECI Forest Governance Programme seeks to strengthen our understanding of how state and non-state institutions and actors shape decisions about the conservation and use of forest resources around the world. This research encompasses a wide diversity of governance institutions and networks, from intergovernmental processes, to government agencies, to forest and carbon certification schemes, to community-based and indigenous forest user groups. A core aim of our research is to better understand how governance systems organize and distribute decision-making authority across conflicting interests, from the local to global scale, and the resulting impacts of such systems on forests and people.
See a list of forest governance publications
Forest Governance Team
- Constance McDermott, Forest Governance Group Leader and Oxford Martin Senior Fellow
- Lauren Coad, Oxford Martin Research Fellow
- Deborah Davenport, Senior Visiting Research Associate
- Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Visiting Research Associate (based at the Stockholm Resilience Centre)
- Rodrigo Acre, DPhil Student
- Caroline A. Schmidt, DPhil Student