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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"forest degradation"”.
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Land use change and natural Araucaria forest degradation : northeastern misiones - Argentina
Originally, araucaria forest was characteristic of the northeast Misiones landscape, covering around 210.000 hectares. The broad variety of possible uses for araucarian timber, as well as a growing need for agricultural land, however, leads to the circumstance that since the middle of the past …
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Leaf and canopy responses to forest degradation and extreme climatic events: a remote sensing perspective
… of environmental change on foliar traits and forest structure. In particular, it investigates the impacts of El Niño on leaf traits using hyperspectroscopy and on the structure of forests modified by oil palm plantations using airborne LiDAR. The first chapter explores the potential and …
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A Holistic Analysis for Spatiotemporal Interdependencies of Deforestation, Forest Degradation and Landslide Susceptibility in NE Iran
Various biotic and abiotic agents are changing forests. Prolonged human activities substantially could cause not only different changes in forests but also could accelerate natural hazards in the Anthropocene. Despite several remote sensing-based research in forest changes, there is a need for a …
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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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Carbon offsets as a cost containment instrument : a case study of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
… activities that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) as a case study example. My results show that carbon offsets reduce upside costs and thus can be an alternative cost-containment instrument, but cost-effectiveness can be limited by supply uncertainties, …
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Three essays on conservation: policy design, risk management and impact evaluation
… and annual subsidies that are sufficient to forestall conversion of private land to commercial activities that increase deforestation. This study assumes that private landowners face uncertainties in the benefits that they can get from competing land use alternatives, namely, conservation and …
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Safeguarding REDD green peripheries
… 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 (REDD) program. …
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Understanding drivers of deforestation using socio‐psychological behavioural theory and the capability approach
… is continuing concern about the rapid loss of forests globally, as the loss of terrestrial carbon stocks has significant implications for our ability to curb the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding drivers of deforestation is essential for developing any successful …
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Uganda and REDD+: Is it worth getting involved from a socio-economic perspective?
… as related consequences such as water shortages, forest fires and loss of biodiversity. It is therefore imperative that there be a global effort to mitigate climate change in order to limit these potentially disastrous effects. Deforestation and forest degradation, principally in the tropics, …
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Forest resource management for sustainable development : a case of Mount Meru Forest Reserve in Northern Tanzania
… as applied to most of the world's tropical forests are anthropocentric. In view of this, conservation of these ecosystems has been threatened by overuse and pressure of exotic monocultures. Sustainable forest development aims at utilizing the forest resource without unduly degrading the …
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The economic and ecological sustainability of the Amazonian timber industry
Abstract Selective logging of tropical forests, particularly reduced impact logging (RIL), has long been suggested as a benign compromise between profitable land-use and biodiversity conservation. Throughout human history, slow-renewal biological resource populations have been predictably …
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Deforestation and Land-Use Change in Veracruz, Mexico: A Remote Sensing Analysis
The purpose of this study was to analyze deforestation using multi spectral satellite imagery in a region of Veracruz and Puebla Mexico. A smaller study area in a subtropical region in Veracruz was used to relate changes in forest cover to changes in land-uses within the smaller region. A land-use …
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Incentives to Plant Trees in Tigray Ethiopia: Interactions of Public Microdams and Health
… in agricultural productivity and reverse local forest degradation. SAERT targets water resource development through the construction of regional public microdams, intended to bring irrigated agriculture to surrounding villages and improve household income. Through SAERT, villagers can choose to …
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Fire Type Classification in the Brazilian Tropical Moist Forest Biome
<p>The Brazilian Tropical Moist Forest Biome (BTMFB) is “<em>Earth’s greatest biological treasure and a major component of the earth system</em>” and forest degradation and deforestation by fire is a serious issue in this region. Fires in the BTMFB can be broadly classified as maintenance, …
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China's Forest Product Imports and the Impacts on Tropical Forests
China's forest product imports have surged over the past two decades, fueled by robust economic growth and an inadequate domestic timber supply. In 2017, China implemented a complete logging ban in its natural forests, further widening the domestic timber supply gap. Many observers highlight the …
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The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is a global carbon trading program intent on mitigating or reversing carbon emissions from forestry in the global south. REDD+ was negotiated at the 2005 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is …
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Die Bündelung von Payments for Environmental Services als Möglichkeit eines effizienten Schutzes von Biodiversität
… innerhalb des Ansatzes Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus (REDDplus). Die Anwendung von PES-Programmen zum Schutz von Biodiversität gewinnt im umweltpolitischen Bereich immer mehr an Bedeutung. Gleichzeitig ist die Umsetzung solcher Schutzprogramme jedoch mit …
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Measuring tropical forest disturbance and regrowth with spaceborne lidar
The world’s tropical forests are vulnerable, facing threats of deforestation and anthropogenic disturbances, but they are also the site of enormous potential for forest growth. While these changes in tropical forest frontiers are widely agreed to have major implications for global carbon fluxes and …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Forest Restoration Efforts in Malawi: A Systematic Review of Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned
Land degradation is a major global environmental challenge affecting various ecosystems, with forest ecosystems among the most severely affected. In Malawi, forest degradation has been driven by a complex interplay of socioeconomic and ecological factors, including agricultural expansion, charcoal …
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