Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change Forestry, Climate change, Environment

Showing 231-237 of 237 results

Pages

• Document

  Why ignore tropical deforestation?: a proposal for including forest conservation in the Kyoto Protocol

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This paper argues that though greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the principal causes of global warming, tropical deforestation is responsible for 20 to 25 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions.
• Document

  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
• Document

  The sustainable forest products industry, carbon and climate change: key messages for policy-makers

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2005

  This paper argues that optimum forest management practices will be those that ensure continued carbon sequestration in the forest, provide wood fibre for biomass-based products and carbon neutral biomass fuels, and protect the ecological values of the forest in a balanced way.The Sustainable Forest Products Industry aims to be responsible managers of carbon by:supplying products that st
• Document

  Time and temperance: how perceptions of time shape forest ethics and practice

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2005

  This paper argues that natural forests cannot compete in terms of generating revenue per unit area with land use alternatives such as intensive agriculture or forest plantations.
• Document

  Global forest resources assessment 2005: progress towards sustainable forest management

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2005

  This extensive FAO assessment of global forest resources, describes the extent, uses and value of forest resources covering 229 countries and territories between 1990 and 2005.
• Document

  Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2005

  Payments for environmental services (PES) is an emerging economics based methodology of conservation management.
• Document

  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.

Pages