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To evaluate reforestation in farms: a tool for smallholders and the sustainability of their initiatives (EvaRefo) [PDF]

, 2015
Despite consensus on the necessity to reforest agricultural landscapes for climate change mitigation and adaptation, the experiences of many small landholders in reforestation are tarnished by difficulties leading to disillusionment and abandonment of ...
Fallot, Abigaïl, Mc Tavish, Heather, Mejia, Nelson   +2 more
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Ecosystem‐Centered Robot Design: Toward Ecoresorbable Sustainability Robots (ESRs)

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Robots exploring natural ecosystems can support monitoring and conservation, but must adopt ecosystem‐centered design to avoid pollution, waste, and damage. This review proposes guidelines for co‐designing ecoresorbable sustainability robots (ESRs), uniting materials, robotics, and ecological contexts in a single framework.
Tülin Yılmaz Nayır, Yuan Fang, Consuelo Contreras, Andrew K. Schulz, Florian Hartmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Plants are promising materials for building sustainable and eco‐friendly robots due to their inherent multifunctionality, with actuation playing a crucial role. This article focuses on the physical movements of plants and, from the perspective of actuation characteristics, explores representative plant species and their behaviors, the current state of ...
Kazuya Murakami, Misao Sato, Yu Ikeda, Tatsuhiro Horii, Yukari Nagatoshi, Miki Fujita, Toshinori Fujie, Yasunari Fujita, Jun Shintake   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aboveground Carbon Estimation in a Mangrove Ecosystem Using UAV-Based Remote Sensing and Machine Learning

Ecological Indicators
Mangroves are an important part of coastal blue carbon ecosystems, efficiently absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Accurate quantification of mangrove carbon stocks aids climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Menglei Duan, Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, Muhammad Abdulmajeed, David Turner, Kathleen Buckingham, Agatha Odari, Josphat Mtwana, Solomon Kipkoech, Neda Kasraee   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

REFORESTATION AND WATER RESOURCES. [PDF]

The Forestry Chronicle, 1936
In recent years a great deal of interest has been aroused in connection with the establishing of protection forests. By these are meant areas of woodland or bush which form the watersheds of streams and rivers used for recreational purposes and especially those on which water supplies for domestic use are dependent. In the advocacy of such areas it may
openaire   +1 more source

Participatory design and use of a simplified landscape in a simulation model for mitigating land use conflict in Northern Thailand highlands [PDF]

, 2009
Landscape modelling integrating spatial information in Geographic Information Systems has been widely used to represent knowledge and support decision-making in the field of natural resource management.
Dumrongrojwatthana, P., Gajaseni, Nantana, Le Page, Christophe, Trébuil, Guy   +3 more
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Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reforestation and land use change in a drainage basin of southern Italy

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2013
In this study, the land use change in a large basin of Calabria region (southern Italy) subjected to extensive reforestation at the end of the ’€˜50 has been carefully reconstructed and compared with the current situation.
D’Ippolito A, Ferrari E, Iovino F, Nicolaci A, Veltri A   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Land Use Changes on the Soil Physicochemical Properties in South-Western Algeria

Ekológia (Bratislava), 2020
This study shows the impact of the reforestation program by some tree species (Pinus halepensis, Cupressus sempervirens and Eucalyptus camaldulensis) on the soil physicochemical parameters in south-western Algeria steppe.
Khadidja Daoudi, Tayeb Sitayeb
doaj   +1 more source

Efficiency analysis of Policies against desertification by applying DEA: a case study in the river Guadalentin catchment (Almeria, Spain) [PDF]

, 2010
This paper deals about an attempt to evaluate the different policies against desertification carried out during a twenty five year period (1978-2003) in the eight municipalities which compound the river Guadalentín catchment (Murcia, Spain). The approach
Ramos Algama, Sara, Rojo Serrano, Leopoldo, Solana Gutierrez, Joaquin   +2 more
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