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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Tropical Deforestation"”.
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National economic development and tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Estimating Carbon Pool and Carbon Release due to Tropical Deforestation Using High-resolution Satellite Data
… tool for monitoring biomass and carbon pool of tropical forest ecosystems. The method was applied to a test site of Bangladesh. The research used Landsat ETM+, Landsat TM and IRS pan images of 2001, 1992 and 1999 respectively. Geometrically corrected Landsat ETM+ imagery was obtained from USGS …
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Safeguarding REDD green peripheries
… resulting in a focus on the reduction of tropical deforestation and forest degradation, which contributes 6-17% of global CO2 emissions. Efforts to address tropical deforestation and forest degradation have culminated in the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation …
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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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The role of historical land-cover changes as a mechanism for global and regional climate change
… change forcing. For example, as a result of tropical deforestation, the position and intensity of the ITCZ is affected by the change in land surface characteristics resulting in global-scale effects which are similar in nature to the climatic effects associated with El Niño Southern …
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Using climate policies and carbon markets to save tropical forests : the case of Costa Rica
… lever to motivate developing countries to reduce deforestation. Fifteen years after the first climate change convention, however, global emissions from deforestation have increased. This thesis uses Costa Rica as a case study to examine how international climate policies and carbon markets have …
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The Use of Landsat Data to Monitor Forest Destruction in Eastern Honduras
Tropical deforestation is becoming one of the most publicized topics today because of the emerging relationship between deforestation and soil erosion, floods, drought, and rural poverty. Further, the world's remaining tropical forests are disappearing at accelerating rates, and this may be …
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China's Forest Product Imports and the Impacts on Tropical Forests
… trade volume as a significant driver of deforestation and forest degradation, especially in tropical regions. This research investigates the relationship between China's imports of wood-based forest products and tropical forest loss (deforestation), as well as the impacts of China's …
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Carbon storage during the regrowth and conversion of Virginia Piedmont forests
… caused by the combustion of fossil fuels and tropical deforestation may result in global warming. Carbon accumulation by regrowing temperate forests, in regions such as the southeastern United States, may have been extensive enough to counterbalance releases of carbon from the tropics. In the …
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Revisiting patterns and processes of forest cover change in the tropics: a case study from southeast Mexico
Vast progress 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 …
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Mapping and monitoring forest cover changes in Lao PDR using remote sensing
… in forest and land cover globally, especially in tropical forests due to heavy deforestation. The highest rate of deforestation is found predominantly in the developing world. Tropical deforestation is a process of transforming forests into cleared land for other uses. Tropical deforestation is …
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Understanding Drivers of Deforestation using Games on Spatial Networks
… mitigation and adaptation become imminent. Since deforestation is a key driver of CO₂ emissions and forests constitute a crucial carbon sink, mitigating deforestation is an essential policy lever for governments. However, much of tropical deforestation results from actions of private entities that …
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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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The effects of forest degradation on arboreal apes within Sikundur, the Gunung Leuser Ecosystem, Northern Sumatra.
Tropical forests are being destroyed at a rate of 1.5 acres every second due to human activities, thereby accelerating climate change through impacts on the carbon cycle and causing the extinction of species dependent on these habitats. In the face of such immediate and globally significant issues, …
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
… how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. We use a novel panel data method that extends previous studies. We find that both new autocratic and democratic regimes have accelerated the expansion of agricultural …