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Market analysis for Acrean timbers [PDF]
In the state of Acre (Brazil), keys of development are the valorization of natural resources, which include non-ligneous and timber products. The need to develop a sustainable wood industry lead to assess markets that can be targeted from Acre in an ...
Jean-Marc Roda
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Optimum road spacing of ground based skidding operations in Nowshahr, Iran
Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2008 The optimum road spacing has been studied by many researches. It is an important step of forest road network planning. The goals of this study are determining the optimum road spacing in Kheiroudkenar forest of Nowshahr in Northern Iran and study of ...
Sobhani,H.
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Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation : a spatial model of land use in Belize [PDF]
Rural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation. To explore the tradeoffs between development and environmental damage posed by road building, the authors develop and estimate a spatially explicit model of land use.
Chomitz, Kenneth M., Gray, David A.
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Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2013 The combination of GIS tools and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) techniques is used to develop a Decision Support System to rank the maintenance priorities of a forest road network according to the actual conditions and needs.
Stefano Grigolato, Marco Pellegrini
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Mapping the optimal forest road network based on the multicriteria evaluation technique: the case study of Mediterranean Island of Thassos in Greece. [PDF]
Environ Monit Assess, 2015 Tampekis S +5 more
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Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2017 A systematic literature review was settled to investigate the application of GIS in terms of methods, complexity and accuracy to support decision on forestry operations and forest road network planning.
Stefano Grigolato +2 more
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09-05 "The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion and Infrastructure Development in Brazil’s Amazon Basin" [PDF]
For decades, the development of transportation infrastructure in the Brazilian Amazon has been the government’s main social and economic development policy in the region.
Daniel C. Nepstad +2 more
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Forest Road Network and Transportation Engineering – State and Perspectives
Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2017 The paper reviews traditional and computer-assisted road network layout approaches and brings them together in an overall stream of development. It results in the main finding that changes in the representation of the road network layout problem triggered major scientific advancements.
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Extensible multi-domain generation of Virtual Worlds using blackboards [PDF]
, 2017 Deglorie, Gaétan +3 more
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Governance and Deforestation Due to Agricultural Land Expansion [PDF]
This article examines the effect of governance on forest cover in developing countries. We develop a theoretical model that explains how governance, particularly corruption control and politically stability, affects deforestation due to agricultural land
Gregmar I. Galinato, Suzette P. Galinato
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