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Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use. We assess the impact of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s which planted 220 million trees across six US Midwestern states. The program led to a regional increase in...
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REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...
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The production of charcoal to meet cooking needs of urban households is one of the main causes of deforestation and … reduction in deforestation. We also investigate the impact of the stoves on cooking time of women, who are the default cooks of … deforestation of 0.04 ha/household/year. However, providing subsidies for stove purchases resulted in a larger reduction in charcoal …
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development – prior roads and prior deforestation – and, further, in a pattern that suggests a potential synergy for roads between … low prior roads and deforestation. For each setting, census-tract observations are numerous. Results confirm predictions …
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prior development - both prior roads and prior deforestation - and in a spatial pattern suggesting a synergy between forests …, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. Census-tract observations are numerous for each setting and reveal a pattern …
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prior development - both prior roads and prior deforestation - and in a spatial pattern suggesting a synergy between forests …, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. Census-tract observations are numerous for each setting and reveal a pattern …
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degradation is rising rapidly. Deforestation of closed forests in recent years has taken place at the fastest rate among major …
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Climate change is the main phenomenon that directly affects the world environment, and changes in the environment affect economic sectors differently. The most important impacts of climate change would be on enhancing the average global temperature and the decrease in precipitation. The...
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rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity … the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth … to slow and reverse deforestation. We cover the most recent work touching on a range of issues related to PES programs …
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