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Understanding smallholder decision‐making to increase farm tree diversity: Enablers and barriers for forest landscape restoration in Western Kenya

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating diverse trees and shrubs (hereafter ‘trees’) in agricultural landscapes has emerged as a crucial nature‐based solution to the triple challenge of biodiversity loss, climate change and food security. The potential benefits of on‐farm trees for both people and nature, however, are often constrained by inadequate consideration of ...
Ennia Bosshard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community-based forest management plans in the Brazilian Amazon: Current barriers and necessary reforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Community-based forest management (CBFM) projects are often seen as an alternative to protect forest and at the same time to provide incomes for small landholders.
Drigo, Isabel   +3 more
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Tree planting, natural colonisation, hybrid approaches: Land manager decisions explored

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a global drive to protect biodiversity and help combat climate change. In the UK, this is expressed in a number of policy initiatives and tools that include increasing tree cover as an important nature‐based solution to achieving national policy targets.
Bianca Ambrose‐Oji   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

AVALIAÇÃO NUMÉRICA DO MÓDULO DE ELASTICIDADE EM VIGAS ROLIÇAS DE MADEIRA DA ESPÉCIE Pinus elliottii

open access: yesCiência Florestal, 2016
This research aimed to present a numerical methodology of calculation, based on the Finite Element Method and the Least Squares Method, to determine de longitudinal modulus of elasticity in structural round timber beams, considering the irregularities in
André Luis Christoforo   +5 more
doaj  

Benefits of houses from round logs [PDF]

open access: yesСтроительство уникальных зданий и сооружений, 2015
Modern construction is actively developing. Therefore, it becomes difficult for many people to "breathe" in cramped conditions and they leave the countryside to live in private homes.
Anna Olegovna Kuznetcova   +2 more
doaj  

Some love them, others hate them: Understanding farmers' tree planting decisions in Scotland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as a sustainable agricultural land use system with potential to sequester carbon, create and repair habitats, enhance biodiversity and offer environmental and socio‐economic benefits, including improved agricultural productivity.
Albert Mvula, Katrin Prager, Josie Geris
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental Testbeds for ECOSEL: A Market Framework for Private Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services [PDF]

open access: yes
We attempt to design a market framework (which we call ECOSEL) for private provision of forest ecosystem services. ECOSEL is a non-regulatory framework that uses a voluntary public good provision mechanism (in a form of an auction) in conjunction with a ...
Ettl, Gregory J.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Wild meat consumption in changing rural landscapes of Indonesian Borneo

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat can play a crucial role in the food system of rural communities residing near tropical forests. Yet, socio‐ecological changes across tropical landscapes are impacting the patterns and sustainability of meat consumption. To understand the prevalence, frequency and drivers of wild meat, domestic meat and fish consumption in this ...
Katie L. Spencer   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking the elected rules in a field experiment on forestry resources : CSID Working Paper Series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
"Harvesting from common resources has been studied through experimental work in the laboratory and in the field. In this paper we report on a dynamic commons experiment, representing a forest, performed with different types of communities of resource ...
Bousquet, François   +4 more
core  

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