Dr. Peter Leigh Taylor is an associate professor of Sociology and co-leader of the Environmental Governance Working Group at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins. Colorado, USA. He received his Ph.D in Development Sociology from Cornell University. He does research and applied work with community-based forestry and conservation organizations in Mexico and Central America. His recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Rural Studies, World Development, Sustainable Development, Latin American Research Review, Forest Ecology and Management, Society and Natural Resources.
Recent publications
- Taylor, Peter Leigh. in press. “Multiple Forest Activities, Multiple Purpose Organizations: Organizing for Complexity in a Grassroots Movement in Guatemala's Petén.” Forest Ecology and Management.
- Cronkleton, Peter and Peter Leigh Taylor. In press. “Forest based Social Movements in Latin America: Collective Action, Communal Rights and Defense of Forest Livelihoods.” In Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl, eds. Forests, People and Rights: The Rights Agenda in International Forestry. London, UK: Resources for the Future Press/Earthscan.
- Taylor, Peter Leigh, Peter Cronkleton, and Deborah Barry. 2011. “Learning in the Field: Using Community Self Studies to Strengthen Forest Based Social Movements” Sustainable Development. DOI:10.1002/sd.498
- Taylor, Peter Leigh. 2011. “Development, Knowledge, Partnership and Change: In Search of Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Governance” Latin American Research Review, 46 (1): 262-271.
- Taylor, Peter Leigh. 2010. “Conservation, Community, and Culture? New Organizational Challenges of Community Forest Concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala. The Journal of Rural Studies 26: 173-184.
- Guariguata, Manuel R., Peter Cronkleton, Patricia Shanley and Peter Leigh Taylor. 2008. “The Compatibility of Timber and Non-timber Forest Product Extraction and Management” in Forest Ecology and Management 256: 1477-1481.
- Taylor, Peter Leigh, Peter Cronkleton, Deborah Barry, Samantha Stone-Jovicich, Marianne Schmink. 2008. ‘If You Saw It With My Eyes’: Collaborative Research and Assistance with Central American Forest Steward Communities. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Forests and Governance Programme Series No. 14.
- Cronkleton, Peter, Peter Leigh Taylor, Deborah Barry, Samantha Stone-Jovicich, Marianne Schmink. 2008. Environmental Governance and the Emergence of Forest-Based Social Movements. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 49.
- Barry, Deborah and Peter Leigh Taylor. 2008. An Ear to the Ground: Tenure Changes and Challenges for Forest Communities in Latin America. Washington. D.C.: The Rights and Resources Initiative.
- Taylor, Peter Leigh. 2005. "In the Market But Not of It: Fair Trade Coffee and Forest Stewardship Council Certification as Market-Based Social Change" World Development 33(1): 129-147. [This article was recognized in 2010 by Elsevier Publishers as one of World Development’s Top 10 Most Cited Articles between 2005-2009].
- Taylor, Peter Leigh. 2005. “A Fair Trade Approach to Community Forest Certification? A Framework for Discussion” Journal of Rural Studies 21: 433-447.
