The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity.

Halting forest loss and achieving sustainable development in an equitable manner require state, non-state actors, and entire societies in the Global North and South to tackle deeply established patterns of inequality and power relations embedded in forest frontiers. Forest and climate governance in the Global South can provide an avenue for the transformational change needed-yet, does it? We analyse the politics and power in four cases of mitigation, adaptation, and development arenas. We use a political economy lens to explore the transformations taking place when climate policy meets specific forest frontiers in the Global South, where international, national and local institutions, interests, ideas, and information are at play.

Sequential power analysis framework in assessing social forestry outcomes.

We extend the Actor-Centred Power framework to consider dimensions beyond the life of community natural resource management partnership initiatives by examining social forestry partnership projects in Indonesia. We do this by examining how power constellations realign across the temporal phases that operationalize project partnerships. We propose a sequential power analysis framework that examines power in three parts.

The bureaucratic politics of conservation in governing land conflict: A typology of capacities.

Recent land management policies around the world have experienced a broader political push to resolve forest and land tenure conflict through agrarian reform policy. As a result, conservation bureaucracies are responding with both formal and informal interventions to acknowledge the role of people in forests. In this methods paper, we provide a closer examination of the ways that conservation bureaucracies apply their political capacity in negotiating forest and land tenure conflicts.

Recent dramatic increase in the male-to-female sex ratio of babies born in Hong Kong.

Aims: There is a rapid rise in the male-to-female sex ratio at birth in Hong Kong, which coincides with the influx of Mainland Chinese mothers crossing the border to give birth in Hong Kong. Our objective is to explore the sex ratio patterns among Hong Kong Chinese and Mainland Chinese.

Methods: Analysis of the statistics from Hong Kong public hospitals from 2003 to 2007.

Subphrenic abscess after cesarean section in term pregnancy complicated by chorioamnionitis.

Background: Subphrenic abscess is rare after cesarean section.

Methods: Case report and review of the pertinent world literature

Case Report: A 22 year-old primigravida underwent a lower-segment cesarean section in the setting of chorioamnionitis, and had a good postoperative recovery initially. Eleven days after surgery, dyspnea and fever prompted a computed tomography scan, which revealed a large subphrenic abscess.

Reappraisal of neonatal clavicular fracture. Relationship between infant size and risk factors.

Objective: To examine the role of fetal size in neonatal clavicular fracture.

Study Design: A retrospective, case-control study was performed on infants diagnosed with neonatal clavicular fractures and born vaginally between July 1997 and June 2000. For each index case, a control matched for gestational age (within one week) and birth weight (within 250 g) and delivered within the same 24-hour period was selected at random from the delivery suite registry.

Reappraisal of neonatal clavicular fracture: relationship between infant size and neonatal morbidity.

Objective: To examine the extent of neonatal morbidity and its relation with infant size in newborns diagnosed with clavicular fracture after vaginal birth.

Methods: A retrospective case-control study was performed on all the infants diagnosed with clavicular fractures and born vaginally between July 1997 and June 2000. For each index case, a control matched for gestational age (within l week), birth weight (within 100 g), and delivered within the same 24-hour period (8 AM to 8 AM), was selected at random from the delivery suite registry.