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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Afforestation"”.
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Peatland Afforestation: Effects and Restoration
… the impacts of large-scale non-native conifer afforestation on the biodiversity of this globally important peatland, the ecological outcomes of restoration interventions, and the implications for conservation management and policy. Using a combination of comparative global assessments, …
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Socio-economic issues in rural afforestation in Kenya
Since Kenya was declared a British Colony in 1895, land use and land tenure have undergone rapid evolution from varied traditional African communal systems into freehold commercialised or semi-commercialised systems. Forests and trees in private lands have also undergone a revolutionary history …
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Socio-economic issues in rural afforestation in Kenya
Since Kenya was declared a British Colony in 1895, land use and land tenure have undergone rapid evolution from varied traditional African communal systems into freehold commercialised or semi-commercialised systems. Forests and trees in private lands have also undergone a revolutionary history …
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Afforestation For Mitigating Against Land Degradation on Kilimanjaro Highlands,Kibosho West Ward,Moshi Rural District
An afforestation for project mitigating against land degradation was implemented on Kilimanjaro highlands, as a result of the community need assessment conducted in Kibosho West ward September, 2010. The data were collected through focus group discussion, interviews, questionnaires, survey, …
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Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics
… important, and polarizing, issues of our time. Afforestation generated carbon offset projects hold a position in Canada as potentially influential, yet frustratingly under-utilized, options to mitigate climate change. This dissertation responds to the question, “what are the economic …
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MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS OF ALEPPO AND BRUTIA PINE SEEDLINGS UNDER TWO DIFFERENT MOISTURE REGIMES (SYRIA, AFFORESTATION, CHLOROPLASTS).
The mechanism of drought resistance in the seedlings of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) and Brutia pine (Pinus brutia) was investigated. Both species showed anatomical and morphological adaptations to conserve moisture. Aleppo pine had a thicker cuticle, fewer stomata per unit length, per unit area, …
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The impacts of afforestation of treeless habitats on fire regimes and ecosystem servicesMediterranean landscapes as a case study
La plantación de árboles se ha convertido en una estrategia central en las políticas globales de mitigación del cambio climático. Se promueven a menudo como una doble vía para aumentar el almacenamiento de carbono, recuperar la biodiversidad y producir madera de forma sostenible. Sin embargo, …
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Planning under deep political conflict: the relationship between Afforestation planning and the struggle over space in the Palestinian Territories
Struggle over space is at the core of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Different actors are involved in this struggle. The Israeli occupation with its planning system, and the Israeli settlers, since the beginning of the occupation, has been enforcing different policies of using space to achieve …
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The impact of plantations of Pinus spp. on the chemical properties of soils and stream waters in South African upland catchments
… good opportunity exists to study the effects of afforestation without the superimposed influence of acid deposition. This thesis documents the results of a regional investigation of the geochemical impact of pine afforestation in South Africa. The study focuses specifically on factors relating to …
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TREE PLANTING STRATEGIES AS NATURE-BASED SOLUTION FOR THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
… tree-based interventions such as urban afforestation and agroforestry, are increasingly promoted as effective strategies to enhance biodiversity, mitigate climate change, and improve regulating ecosystem services. However, the outcomes of tree planting practices are highly …
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What to plant and where to plant it; Modeling the biophysical effects of North America temperate forests on climate using the Community Earth System Model
… temperature and energy balance associated with afforestation with either needle leaf evergreen trees (NET) or broadleaf deciduous trees (BDT) and between forests with high and low leaf-area indices (LAI). Afforestation from crops to forests resulted in lower albedo and higher sensible heat flux …
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ŽEMĖS APŽELDINIMO MIŠKU, KAIP KAIMO PLĖTROS PRIEMONĖS, ĮGYVENDINIMAS /
… Program - agricultural and non agricultural land afforestation, - as an alternative land uses, implementation issues and assess the implementation of measures in Lithuania. According to the survey and interview research methods, given the land afforestation measures in the implementation of the …
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Medium-term response of lowland river reaches to changes in upland land use.
The afforestation of upland areas in the UK has been the largest rural land use change this century. As a consequence of afforestation the bed load yields of upland catchments have been shown to increase substantially. The upland catchment bed load is transported downstream, through the transfer …
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Áhrif nýskógræktar á kolefnisbindingu í jarðvegi á Íslandi
Afforestation does not only establish new forests on treeless lands, but also changes many other aspects of the ecosystem, including the fauna, ground vegetation and soil properties. One of the most important ecosystem changes is the influence on the ecosystem carbon (C) stocks in different …
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The roles of exotic and native tree species in preventing desertification and enhancing degraded land restoration in the north east of Libya. Reciprocal effects of environmental factors and plantation forestry on each other, assessed by observations on growth and reproductive success of relevant tree species, and environmental factors analysed using multivariate statistics.
… overcultivation, overgrazing and deforestation. Afforestation programs are one of the most effective means in preventing desertification. For many years Libya has had afforestation programs in order to restore degraded land and in response to rapid desert encroachment in the north east of Libya, …
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Vegetation and flora of the Southern Drakensberg escarpment and adjacent areas
… S, and 27°25' and 28°35' E. In the study area afforestation is the greatest threat at lower altitudes, whereas at the higher altitudes overgrazing, trampling and invasion by exotic plant species impact negatively on the native vegetation. A brief review of the history and previous botanical …
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