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Towards State Hegemony Over Agricultural Certification: From Voluntary Private to Mandatory State Regimes on Palm Oil in Indonesia

open access: yesJurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2015
Previous work on certification of palm oil has reported on a trend toward a change, from failed state regulation to voluntary, private governance. However, recent observations suggest a trend, moving from voluntary, private governance to mandatory ...
Muhammad Alif Kaimuddin Sahide   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Slovakia and its environmental transformation: measuring environmental attitudes using the new ecological paradigm

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Many scientists have studied the relationship between society and the environment. The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) has been repeatedly used for the analysis of public environmental attitudes, as the public pays increased attention to the environmental ...
Lenka Marcineková   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global influences and local environments: Forestry and forest conservation in New Zealand, 1850s-1925. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article examines the multiple factors that shaped the establishment of forest conservation and tree-planting in the colony of New Zealand. It presents a new perspective on forest history in New Zealand from the 1850s to the 1920s by examining the ...
Beattie, James John, Star, Paul
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A review of private forest owner typologies with potential to contribute to social milieu research in forest policy

open access: yesTrees, Forests and People
This paper explores recent research on private forest owner (PFO) typologies in forest policy, particularly those moving beyond traditional socio-demographic and structural factors, to assess their potential contribution to social milieu research in ...
Peter K. Aurenhammer, Max Krott
doaj   +1 more source

Domestic use of biomass fuel in the rural Meghna floodplain areas of Bangladesh

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2010
Rural households in the developing countries constitute the largest share of the biomass fuel consumption. It is also a major source of energy in the low income country. However, this energy consumption pattern varies from region to region.
Akther S, Miah MD, Koike M
doaj   +1 more source

Poor science meets political neglect: Land use changes of high conservation value forests in Indonesia

open access: yesForest and Society, 2021
Forest land allocation and use in Indonesia have been politically contested and characterized by poor data and competing interests of different institutions.
Arnanto Nurprabowo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Topography and human pressure in mountain ranges alter expected species responses to climate change

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
It is often assumed that many species will move upslope in mountainous regions as the climate warms. However, the authors show here that as many species move to higher elevations they will enter areas of lower human footprint but potentially more ...
Paul R. Elsen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Tilburg Frailty on Poststroke Fatigue in First‐Ever Stroke Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Study With Unified Measurement Tools and Improved Statistics

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Poststroke fatigue (PSF) and frailty share substantial overlap in their manifestations, yet previous research has yielded conflicting results due to the use of heterogeneous frailty assessment tools. Objective To evaluate the independent impact of frailty on PSF using a unified measurement system (Tilburg Frailty Indicator, TFI ...
Chuan‐Bang Chen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree Species Classification Using Hyperion and Sentinel-2 Data with Machine Learning in South Korea and China

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
Remote sensing (RS) has been used to monitor inaccessible regions. It is considered a useful technique for deriving important environmental information from inaccessible regions, especially North Korea.
Joongbin Lim, Kyoung-Min Kim, Ri Jin
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges and Solutions for Forest Biodiversity Conservation in Sweden: Assessment of Policy, Implementation Outputs, and Consequences

open access: yesLand, 2023
Swedish policies aim at conserving biological production, biodiversity, cultural heritage and recreational assets. This requires compositionally and structurally functional networks of representative habitats, the processes that maintain them, and ...
Per Angelstam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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