Forestry and climate change
Land use changes in forestry and the role of REDD schemes
- Social and ecological impacts of climate change on the Amazon
- This compilation of twenty seven articles focuses on the interactions, impacts and effects of climate change on the Amazon region. Each article examines a specific issue, providing a multidisciplinary analysis of climate change impacts. Issues discussed include: interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires; social impacts; and hydro-climatic and ecological behaviour.
Latest Documents
- DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement
- J. Assunção; C. Gandour; R. Rocha / Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
- This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time d...
- Assessment of REDD+ training needs and supply in six countries in the Africa and Asia-Pacific Regions
- Conservation International, 2013
- REDD+ capacity building is fundamental to achieving REDD+ readiness. There is little data, however, that describe the type of capacity building and the number of people that are reached with these initiatives in REDD+ countries. The l...
- Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi
- L. Zulu / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed socia...
- Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?
- A. Bolin; L. Lawrence; M. Leggett / Global Canopy Programme, 2013
- This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreemen...
- Decision support tool: Integrated REDD+ accounting frameworks: nested national approaches
- Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests, 2013
- Carbon accounting and incentive allocation frameworks are a central component of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and in structuring these frameworks, decisions need to be made over how to reach REDD+ obje...
- Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
- C. M. Stickler / Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2013
- Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. This paper argues that feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effec...
- Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali
- M. Brockhaus; H. Djoudi (ed); B. Locatelli (ed) / Elsevier, 2013
- In West Africa, rural livelihoods that dependon natural resources develop coping and adapting strategies to face climate variability or change, and economic or political changes. The former Lake Faguibine in northern Mali has experien...
- Food security and nutrition: the role of forests
- T. Sunderland / Center for International Forestry Research, 2013
- With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing agricultural production. However, studies suggest that food insecurity is not caused by lack of food production, but by inadequ...
- Scientific literature review on the roles of forests and trees in social vulnerability to climate change
- E. Pramova; B. Locatelli; H. Djoudi; O. A. Somorin / Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
- Ecosystems provide crucial services to help people adapt to climate change. In conducting a review of the scientific literature, this paper shows how ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation can reduce social vulnerability to climate ...
- Forests and climate change after Doha: an Asia-Pacific perspective
- The Centre for People and Forests, 2013
- Since 2010 the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th, 16th and 17th Conference o...
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