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Enhancing Access and Usage of Earth Observations in Environmental Decision-Making in Eastern and Southern Africa Through Capacity Building

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Major strides have been made in the development of remote sensing, reanalysis, and model-based earth observations (EOs), which can be used for long-term climate variability mapping, as well as real-time environmental monitoring and forecasting.
Shraddhanand Shukla   +8 more
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A Guiding Model for Economic Valuation and Estimation of Environmental Damage Costs to the Iranian Wetland Ecosystem Services [PDF]

open access: yesمحیط زیست و توسعه فرابخشی, 2020
Wetland valuation is an important tool available to environmental managers and decision makers to justify the overal costs of wetland conservation and management activities.
Jalil BadamFirooz, Roya Mousazadeh
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Forest carbon stock and livelihood opportunities under the CBFM Project in Midwestern Leyte Province, Philippines

open access: yesAnnals of Tropical Research, 2007
The study assessed the carbon stocks or storage within the Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) Project in Midwestern Leyte Province. The CBFM project area stored an average carbon density of 333 Mg/ha from aboveground biomass down to the soil ...
Arturo E. Pasa
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Species Richness, Stem Density, and Canopy in Food Forests: Contributions to Ecosystem Services in an Urban Environment

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2022
Food forests expand the traditional concepts of urban forestry and agriculture, providing a broad diversity of tree-related ecosystem services and goods.
Cara A. Rockwell   +4 more
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Patterns of Tree Distribution within Small Communities of the Sudanian Savanna-Sahel

open access: yesLand, 2014
Crown diameter and tree density were measured in 52 communities in the Sudan-Sahel using satellite imagery to determine the relationships between rainfall and distance from community center to crown size diameter and tree density.
Sarah J. Sterling, Blair Orr
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Relações de aporte de sedimento e implicação de sua utilização no pagamento por serviço ambiental em bacias hidrográfias Relations of sediment delivery underlying payments for environmental services in catchment areas

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2010
Em razão de sua simplicidade, a relação de aporte de sedimento (RAS), dada pela razão entre a produção de sedimento no exutório e a erosão total na bacia, é comumente usada no estudo e na determinação da produção de sedimentos em bacias hidrográficas ...
Henrique Marinho Leite Chaves
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Economic valuation for water supply from Merapi Volcano National Park Case study: Kali Kuning sub watershed

open access: yesJournal of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, 2017
The Merapi Volcano National Park (MVNP) is developed based on particular considerations such as protecting ecosystem or preserving certain species. Management of national park will not succeed unless the communities surrounding park support the park ...
Ayu Diyah Setiyani   +3 more
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Current overview and potential applications of the soil ecosystem services approach in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesPesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2016
Human pressure on ecosystems has undesirable impacts on human well-being. After the Millennium Project, much interdisciplinary research has been developed worldwide aiming to understand these impacts on ecosystem flows and processes, and to learn about ...
Rachel Bardy Prado   +15 more
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Valuation of Environmental Services City Park 1 BSD Using the Travel Cost Method (TCM) and Willingness To Pay (WTP)

open access: yesAmalee, 2023
BSD City Park 1 has quite complete functions, including ecological, social, and aesthetics, as well as is also a city landmark and a cheap and healthy tourist attraction for residents, including visitors from outside BSD City.
Abdillah Munawir   +2 more
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Maintaining carbon stocks in extractive reserves in Brazilian Amazonia

open access: yesDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2018
Extractive reserves in the Amazon Forest maintain carbon stocks out of the atmosphere, thereby avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions that provoke global warming.
Philip Martin Fearnside   +2 more
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