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FORMA: Forest Monitoring for Action— Rapid Identification of Pan-tropical Deforestation Using Moderate-Resolution Remotely Sensed Data

Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin; Wheeler, David - 2009

Rising concern about carbon emissions from deforestation has led donors to finance UN-REDD (Reducing Emissions from … Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries), a program that offers direct compensation for forest conservation … system for monitoring deforestation. In this paper, we introduce FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action), a prototype system …

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Monitoring needs to transform Amazonian forest maintenance into a global warming-mitigation option

Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2 (1997) 2, pp. 285-302

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Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments: The Paradox of Paying for Multiple Ecosystem Services - Working Paper 347

Busch, Jonah - 2013

An international mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation using carbon payments (REDD+) can be leveraged to … avoided deforestation and more on incentivizing the participation of new suppliers. …

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Quand le développement prime sur l'environnement : la déforestation en Amazonie brésilienne

Demaze, Moïse Tsayem - In: Mondes en développement n° 143 (2008) 3, pp. 97-116

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia rises mainly from planning and development policies. These policies created great … this context, development opposes environment. This paper reports on this deforestation and its evolution in Brazilian … Amazonia. It shows that development and planning policy which have generated this deforestation during recent decades have been …

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Quels enjeux pour la durabilité et la gouvernance des ressources naturelles et forestières à Madagascar ?

Andriananja, Heriniaina; Raharinirina, Vahinala - In: Mondes en développement 127 (2004) 3, pp. 75-89

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the passage of natural resources centralized management to their self-governance in Madagascar. It also examines the associated issues to the coordination of several stakeholders and institutions in the framework of a comparative analysis between the...

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Economic Assessment of Mitigation Options for Enhancing and Maintaining Carbon Sink Capacity in Indonesia

Boer, Rizaldi - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6 (2001) 3, pp. 257-290

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The Potential of Brazil's Forest Sector for Mitigating Global Warming under the Kyoto Protocol

Fearnside, Philip - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6 (2001) 3, pp. 355-372

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Land Use, Land-Use Change, Forestry, and Agricultural Activities in the Clean Development Mechanism: Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Offset Potential

Bloomfield, Janine; Pearson, Holly - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 5 (2000) 1, pp. 9-24

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Application of the ‘Climafor’ Approach to Estimate Baseline Carbon Emissions of a Forest Conservation Project in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico

Jong, B.; Hellier, A.; Castillo-Santiago, M.; Tipper, R. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10 (2005) 2, pp. 265-278

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Accounting for time in Mitigating Global Warming through land-use change and forestry

Fearnside, Philip; Lashof, Daniel; Moura-Costa, Pedro - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 5 (2000) 3, pp. 239-270

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