Environmental Research LettersClimate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and forests are increasingly seen as a key pathway to mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis. Because forests stand to play a significant role in reaching net-zero emission targets,
Chad C Papa +3 more
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Global Forest Governance – Discussing legal scholarship from political science perspectives [PDF]
, 2014 Scholarship in international law aims at addressing global forest governance comprehensively. This article reviews the recent contribution Global Forest Governance - Legal Concepts and Policy Trends by Rowena Maguire and puts it into the perspective of ...
Edwards, Peter, Giessen, Lukas
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Lessons for the Forest Service from State Trust Land Management Experience [PDF]
This paper argues that state trust land management experience is potentially a source of valuable insights and examples for the U.S. Forest Service.
Fairfax, Sally
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Future research plans to support forest carbon policy in Canada
The Forestry ChronicleThis article summarizes a ten-year plan for forest carbon science that was developed in a collaborative effort with the forest carbon science and policy community in Canada.
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Unintended Environmental Consequences of a Global Biofuels Program [PDF]
, 2009 and PDF report are also available on the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://globalchange.mit.edu/).Biofuels are being promoted as an important part of the global energy mix to meet the climate change challenge ...
Cronin, Timothy W. +9 more
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Congressional testimony at the House Resources Committee hearing to discuss the president's healthy forests: An initiative for wildfire prevention and stronger communities, September 5, 2002 in Washington, DC. [PDF]
, 2002 My testimony will focus on the science of forest restoration and how to reverse the trend of increasing catastrophic wildfires in the dry forests of the West by implementing science-based forest restoration ...
Covington, W.W.
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Citizen science for forest ecosystem services assessment–Insights from co-creation in Switzerland
Trees, Forests and PeopleForests play a critical role in climate regulation by storing carbon and delivering a wide range of ecosystem services. Sustainable forest management is essential to maintain these services, however current monitoring and assessments frameworks tend to ...
Johanna Trummer +3 more
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A note on Pr\"ufer-like coding and counting forests of uniform hypertrees
, 2011 This note presents an encoding and a decoding algorithms for a forest of (labelled) rooted uniform hypertrees and hypercycles in linear time, by using as few as $n - 2$ integers in the range $[1,n]$.
Lavault, Christian
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A new tool to calculate roadless space in forest landscapes, applied in the Congo basin [PDF]
, 2015 New global strategies for road building require innovative tools to analyze linear patterns and their spatial distribution and to evaluate their environmental impacts. Roads not only present physical barriers to wildlife but also provide access for human
Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie +4 more
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Forests and Hydrological Services: Reconciling public and science perceptions [PDF]
This paper compares and contrasts the science and public perceptions of the role of forests in relation to water quantity (annual and seasonal runoff and recharge) and erosion.
Calder, Ian R.
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