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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Forest Conservation"”.
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Institutional and fiscal policies for forest conservation
Tropical deforestation contributes to climate change and entails further environmental externalities such as biodiversity loss and soil erosion. Consequently, the preservation of the world’s remaining tropical forests is the objective of international and national policies. Preventing deforestation …
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Forest conservation through voluntary carbon offsetting interventions
Ongoing deforestation in the tropics is destabilising planetary carbon cycles, impacting biodiversity and affecting societies the world over. Multiple strategies have been put in place to reduce threats to tropical forests through integrated conservation and sustainable development projects. …
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The effectiveness of protected area funding for forest conservation and human development in the Peruvian Amazon
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Fighting Forest Fires in the Western United States: an Educational Filmstrip and Manual for Teaching Forest Conservation
… for informing people about the methods of forest fire control employed in the Western United States. The project was specifically intended to assist the teacher of forest conservation at the seventh grade level, but it should also prove useful in teaching at other levels.
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Oil palm expansion and land cover changes in the Peruvian Amazon: implications for forest conservation and fire mitigation
Land cover change is a major challenge for forest conservation in Amazonia. Forest cover loss and anticipated changes in climate are expected to increase fire incidence in Amazonia with detrimental consequences to human health, climate, and natural ecosystems. In this dissertation I developed …
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Human Dimensions of Young Forest Conservation Programs: Effects of Outreach, Post-Program Management, and a Coupled Systems Perspective
Achieving long-term conservation gains through the framework of conservation incentive programs requires an understanding of both the ecological and social components of these programs. Landowner program experiences and management decisions after program participation are important for long-term …
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"The Very Devil Was In the Elements": The American Civil War, Natural Awareness, and the Beginnings of the Forest Conservation Movement
The America Civil War, natural awareness, and forests had a complex relationship. Through their mostly agrarian lifestyle, soldiers during the American Civil War demonstrated varying levels of natural awareness by writing in their diaries and letters about their daily interactions and observations …
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Social-Economic Benefits of Payment for Environmental Services in Yaque del Norte Watershed, Dominican Republic
… research analyzes private and social costs of forest conservation in Yaque del Norte watershed, DR. It calculates private costs as average annual income from farming activities and social costs as the externalities from erosion and CO2 emissions. Social cost estimates are based on the …
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Using real-time forest loss alerts and global deforestation maps to assess the effectiveness of Africa's tropical protected areas
Tropical rainforests harbor a significant portion of the world's remaining biodiversity. Having undergone rapid changes in forest cover over the last two decades, a large amount of irreplaceable biodiversity has been lost. The establishment of protected areas has been a key strategy to hinder the …
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Systematic conservation planning and South Africa's Forest Biome: An assesment of the conservation status of South Africa's forest and reccomdentations for their conservation
… analysis and interpretation for a systematic conservation plan for the entire South African forest biome. This was done by addressing the following questions: What is the current state of the forest biome? How well are forests protected? How threatened are they? What are the conservation …
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Three essays on Brazil's deforestation control policies and their potential effects: Conflicts, Compliance, and Secondary forest recovery
Brazil reduced its annual deforested area from 27772 km2 to 4571 km2 from 2004 to 2012. This phenomenal achievement resulted from multiple government initiatives, most notably the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm). However, these ambitious …
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Re -Scaling Conservation: The Political Ecology of Community Based Forest Management in Southern Malawi
… CBFM reconfigured relations of power surrounding forest access, use and management in ways whose net effect was to undermine forest conservation. Reliance on village forest committees created elitist, unaccountable, and corrupt village bureaucracies. Alienated, many communities withdrew their …
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Revisiting patterns and processes of forest cover change in the tropics: a case study from southeast Mexico
… has been made in detecting rates of tropical deforestation, yet the relationship between visible patterns of forest change, multi-scalar human processes and the underlying drivers associated with them is poorly understood. Building on satellite imagery, a household livelihood survey and …
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Using climate policies and carbon markets to save tropical forests : the case of Costa Rica
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, advocates for forest conservation thought that climate change could provide a lever to motivate developing countries to reduce deforestation. Fifteen years after the first climate change convention, however, global emissions from deforestation have increased. This …
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Glocalizing Forests: Transnational Networks and the Geography of Global Climate Policy
… sub-global actions. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD+), a popular initiative which aims to support forest conservation withclimate mitigation funds, provides an excellent example of the promises and pitfalls of thinking about climate policy from the perspective of the …
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Whose Woods These Are: Human-Environment Relationships Among Stakeholders of South Mississippi's Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
… boom the landscape of the Southeast was reforested, but fire suppression and a preference among landowners for loblolly pine resulted in a dense and less resilient forest with reduced biodiversity. This research looks at the human geography of remnants of the longleaf pine ecosystem in …
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Effects of riparian buffer width on stream salamander populations in the southern Appalachian Mountains
… thrive for more than a season or two in logged forests due to a significant deterioration in body condition of Ocoee salamanders in logged riparian areas. My results indicate that current riparian forest conservation measures are inadequate to preserve either larval or adult salamander …
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