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discontinuity environment, I find an increase in deforestation of an annual area of 8,057 ha in FSC forests after the certification …. Public sustainability zones' impact on deforestation is also positive but declines over time. The effectiveness of both type …
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deforestation and the impact of climate change would rapidly and dramatically reduce the extent of the forest area and its density … short time due to global warming and deforestation combined. This 'die-back' in turn would itself contribute to an … regional climate, examines the evidence about deforestation trends and about the expected impact of climate change over the …
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This paper aims to address the impact on deforestation of the use of forest products as safety nets by poor … strategies, crop risk reduction, lower risk aversion and larger population increase tropical deforestation. Forest profitability …
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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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Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...
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We study the potential of tropical multi-age multi-species forests for sequestering carbon in response to financial incentives from REDD+. The use of reduced impact logging techniques (RIL) allows a forest owner to apply for carbon credits whereas the use of conventional logging techniques (CL)...
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Understanding consumption-based emissions from Agriculture, Forestry and Land-use (AFOLU) activities is important in developing climate policy for the sector. This paper proposes a new methodology to construct indicators – CBAFOLU indicators ‒ to provide estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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