William Jackson

• PhD
• Managing Director at Intellagama

Our planet is facing increasing challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, poverty, and many other problems closely linked to a deteriorating environment. Meanwhile, one of our most important assets, rangers working in protected and conserved areas responsible for managing large tracts of the planet's lands and waters, are often unde...

Implementing global environmental initiatives at the local level requires modifications to accommodate site-specific factors such as social organisation, land tenure and gender. This is particularly challenging for forest restoration initiatives such as Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), which require the cooperation and support of local communiti...

In recent decades, out-migration has become a key livelihood strategy for many rural households in the middle hills region of Nepal. In this region, rural communities are key actors in the management of local resources such as community forests. Analysis of the link between community forests and out-migration is largely missing in the literature, e...

It is time to move beyond the era of conflict and develop a new shared vision for the management of Australia’s public forests. We need more holistic approaches that encompass all forest values across the landscape, rather than the current approach of dividing public forest management up across different government agencies. More collaborative appr...

In recent decades, out-migration has become a key livelihood strategy for many rural households in the middle hills region of Nepal. In this region, rural communities are key actors in the management of local resources such as community forests. Analysis of the link between community forests and out-migration is largely missing in the literature, e...

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on the global community; on people's lives and health, livelihoods, economies, and behaviours. Most zoonotic disease pandemics, including COVID-19, arise from the unsustainable exploitation of nature. This special editorial provides a snapshot of how protected and conserved areas around the world ar...

'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect, the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conser...

This contribution is based on a set of reflections presented at the REGov Workshop. These reflections were offered as part of a panel discussion around the topic “New environmental regionalism.” Additional presentations provided in the context of this panel discussion include those of Jörg Balsiger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (thi...

Forest management has changed significantly in recent decades. A primary focus on timber production has broadened to reflect community interest in biodiversity, water, cultural values, carbon and bioenergy. Global forest area is declining significantly - mostly due to the conversion of forest land to agriculture, a process which contributes greatly...

Between 1993 and 1996 the Nepal Australia Community Forestry Project carried out four comparative land-use studies in Sindhu Palchok and Kabhre Palanchok districts of Nepal to evaluate the impacts of Australian development assistance over a continuous 19-year period fostering community forestry. The four studies made use of sets of air photographs...

Deforestation and forest degradation have resulted in many impoverished landscapes worldwide that are characterised by a paucity of livelihood opportunities, drastically reduced biological diversity and diminished ecosystem functionality and productivity. Consequently, the restoration of forest functionality is important from both a socio-economic...