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FireForest fuels are the core element of fire management; each fuel component plays an important role in fire behavior. Therefore, accurate determination of their characteristics and spatial distribution is crucial.
Álvaro Agustín Chávez-Durán +7 more
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Can Joint Forest Management Programme Sustain Rural Life: A Livelihood Analysis from Community-based Forest Management Groups [PDF]
This empirical study assesses the impact of community-based initiative under gender sensitive joint forest management (JFM) programme on sustainable rural livelihoods (SRL) across the socio-economic groups of forest fringe community based on JFM and non ...
Das, Nimai
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The Perfect Firestorm: Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs under Control [PDF]
, 2007 Blessed and cursed by a Congress that gives it a virtual if not literal blank check for fire protection, the Forest Service's fire spending is out of control.
Randal O'Toole
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2019 Ants (Formicidae: Hymenoptera) are important components of forest ecosystems and can be affected by fuel reduction forest management practices. We assessed the impact of repeated applications of fuel reduction treatments on abundance and diversity of ...
Joshua W. Campbell +6 more
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Property Rights, Institutions and Source of Fuel Wood in Rural Ethiopia [PDF]
This study examines the relationship between property rights, defined by land tenure security and the strength of local-level institutions, and household demand for fuel wood, as measured by the source from which fuel wood is collected.
Abebe Damte, Steven F. Koc
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Machine learning predicts activation energies for key steps in the water‐gas shift reaction on 92 MXenes. Random Forest is identified as the most accurate model. Reaction energy and reactant LogP emerge as key descriptors. The approach provides a predictive framework for catalyst design, grounded in density functional theory data and validated through ...
Kais Iben Nassar +3 more
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Retributing forest carbon vs. stimulating fuelwood demand insights from the French forest sector model [PDF]
Forests can contribute to climate mitigation by sequestrating carbon in forest biomass andby replacing fossil-fuel with fuelwood, with potentially conflicting implications for forest management.The present paper assesses the mitigation and the economic ...
Ahmed Barkaoui +4 more
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Are biogenic emissions a significant source of summertime atmospheric toluene in the rural Northeastern United States? [PDF]
, 2009 Summertime atmospheric toluene enhancements at Thompson Farm in the rural northeastern United States were unexpected and resulted in a toluene/benzene seasonal pattern that was distinctly different from that of other anthropogenic volatile organic ...
Ambrose, Jesse L. +10 more
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