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Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 Brazil recently began granting timber concessions in public forests to promote sustainable forest use. The effectiveness of this strategy hinges on the design and implementation of the concessions themselves as well as their competitive position within ...
Santos de Lima L +5 more
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Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 Forest-based biofuel is a promising solution to increase the share of renewable and sustainable energy in the transportation sector. Large-scale implementation of biofuel, however, not only affects the energy and transportation sectors, but also the ...
Eirik Ogner Jåstad, Erik Trømborg
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Representations of the Forest Sector in Economic Models
Œconomia, 2020 Forest sector models encompass a set of models used for forest-related policy analysis. As representations of a complex human-environment system, they incorporate multiple facts from their target, the forest sector, which is usually understood as ...
Miguel Rivière, Sylvain Caurla
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Sustainability, 2023 The Sustainable Development Goals, developed in 2015 by the United Nations, are a set of 17 internationally agreed-upon goals to be reached by 2030.
Renata Aguayo Lopes da Silva +2 more
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Adjustment of the Grass Fuel Moisture Code for Grasslands in Southern Brazil
Fire, 2022 Grasslands are one of the vegetation types most widely affected by wildfires in southern Brazil. It is a fire-dependent ecosystem and it is necessary to know the hourly fuel moisture variation for its management.
João Francisco Labres dos Santos +4 more
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Gender differences in job experiences and satisfaction in the forest sector
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2023 The forest sector faces complex societal demands which require a workforce with the desired compositions of competence. It is also a primary, rural and male-dominated industry based on gendered norms and culture.
H. Sjølie, Deniz Akin, Tonje Lauritzen
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The rule of thumb “the right tree in the right place” is a common idea in different countries to avoid damages caused by trees on sidewalks. Although many new planting techniques can be used, the estimation of the trunk flare diameter (TFD) could help ...
Rogério Bobrowski +5 more
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Anthropogenic N – A global issue examined at regional scale from soils, to fungi, roots and tree rings [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Globally increasing anthropogenic airborne emissions of reactive nitrogen (N) generate several environmental issues that require investigating how N accumulation modifies the N cycle.
Savard Martine M. +10 more
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On the role of forests and the forest sector for climate change mitigation in Sweden
GCB Bioenergy, 2022 We analyse the short‐ and long‐term consequences for atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations of forest management strategies and forest product uses in Sweden by comparing the modelled consequences of forest resource use vs.
H. Petersson +9 more
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A Bioeconomic Projection of Climate‐Induced Wildfire Risk in the Forest Sector
Earth's Future, 2022 Under the influence of climate change, wildfire regimes are expected to intensify and expand to new areas, increasing threats to natural and socioeconomic assets.
M. Riviere +7 more
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