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    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+ objectives in a timely, economically efficient and socially and environmentally sustainable manner.
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    Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales

    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.
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    Food security and nutrition: the role of forests

    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 inadequate distribution, a lack of purchasing power and other non-productive causes.
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    Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali

    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 experienced drastic ecological, social, and economic changes. Forests have emerged on the former lake and have become important for local livelihoods.
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    Forests and trees for social adaptation to climate variability and change

    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 hazards, and highlights knowledge gaps and trade-offs that require more research.
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    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 of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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    Selection of provenances to adapt tropical pine forestry to climate change on the basis of climate analogs

    Bioversity International, 2013
    Climate change is likely to affect substantial areas of forest plantation production in the tropics and subtropics, and it may make the choice of which species and provenance to plant increasingly difficult. In this study, growth performance of plantings of pine tree species in Colombia, Brazil and South Africa was correlated to the degree of climatic dissimilarity between planting sites.
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    Tenure of indigenous peoples territories and REDD+ as a forestry management incentive: the case of Mesoamerican countries

    The UN-REDD Programme and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2012
    Programmes to reduce emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation, including REDD+ and Payment for Environmental Services (PES), could represent an opportunity to strengthen processes of conservation, sustainable usage and poverty reduction in the Mesoamerican region, particularly in indigenous territories and communities.
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    Protecting carbon to destroy forests: land enclosures and REDD+

    Transnational Institute, 2013
    This paper argues that REDD+ will not stop forest destruction developing countries and the underlying causes of deforestation remain untouched. The paper suggests that because REDD+ is embedded in the logic that environmental destruction in one location can be ‘compensated’ in another, it acts to reinforce the underlying drivers of deforestation and climate change.
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    Putting the pieces together for good governance of REDD+: an analysis of 32 REDD+ country readiness proposals

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013
    The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness Fund and the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) are supporting capacity building efforts in preparation from REDD+ implementation.

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