The Impact of Settlement Design on Tropical Deforestation Rates and Resulting Land Cover Patterns
Policymakers in the Brazilian Amazon face the challenge of meeting environmental and developmental goals as cities and towns within these tropical forests continue to face migration pressure.
Caviglia-Harris, Jill L., Harris, Daniel
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From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing- Working Paper 282 [PDF]
In this paper, we develop and illustrate a prototype incentive system for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. Our proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that rewards independently ...
David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Endemic Vascular Epiphytes: Integrating Protected Areas and Suitability Models in the Amazon Forest. [PDF]
Ecol EvolLucas KMDS +7 more
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Integrating multimodal data and machine learning for entrepreneurship research
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Extant research in neuroscience suggests that human perception is multimodal in nature—we model the world integrating diverse data sources such as sound, images, taste, and smell. Working in a dynamic environment, entrepreneurs are expected to draw on multimodal inputs in their decision making.
Yash Raj Shrestha, Vivianna Fang He
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Amazon forest resistance to drought is increased by diversity in hydraulic traits. [PDF]
Nat CommunLangan L +3 more
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Bias in, symbolic compliance out? GPT's reliance on gender and race in strategic evaluations
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research summary Organizations are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to support strategic evaluations. We examine whether and how these systems rely on gender and race. We asked GPT to evaluate identical startup pitches varying only the founder's name, shaping gender and race perceptions.
Tristan L. Botelho, Qingyang (Iris) Wang
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Amazon forest faces severe decline under the dual pressures of anthropogenic climate change and land-use change. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ABultan S +6 more
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The Emergence of Chikungunya ECSA Lineage in a Mayaro Endemic Region on the Southern Border of the Amazon Forest. [PDF]
Trop Med Infect Dis, 2020 Julia da Silva Pessoa Vieira C +6 more
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Hevea brasiliensis seeds: A novel sustainable feedstock for ethanol production
Vietnam Journal of Chemistry, EarlyView.Abstract The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is cultivated on a large scale mainly for the extraction of latex in Brazil and Southeast Asia, also generating large quantities of seeds. These seeds currently do not have large‐scale applications and may thus be considered as a residue.
Giovano Tochetto +4 more
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