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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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RUDN Journal of Engineering Research, 2018 Goal. Metal frame supports SVP-22 with round timber lagging and backfilling of the voidsof unsupported space with chock support is used in the workings of unstable ores and rocks at the Orlovsky mine.
Yuriy N Shaposhnik +3 more
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Farming system characterization for rubber smallholders in West Kalimantan [PDF]
, 2003 Dans l'Est-Kalimantan, l'adoption de nouveau matériel végétal dépend de sa disponibilité et du coût, de l'organisation et la cohésion sociale. les exploitants sont , en général, convaincus par les bonnes performances des nouveaux clones d'hévéa.
Courbet, Philippe +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite South Korea's extensive forest coverage, which accounts for approximately 63% of its total land area, the country imports over 83% of its timber needs and has shown a gradual decline in forest carbon sequestration capacity. The Circular Forest Management Policy (CFMP) addresses these challenges through systematic forest resource ...
Seoryeon Son +4 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Incoherence between national land use policies may weaken climate mitigation efforts by creating conditions under which agricultural and forestry production and GHG emissions are displaced across borders (leakage). Coherence depends on constellations and prioritization of national policy aims in land use (production) and climate (conservation).
Heiner von Lüpke +8 more
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Ecology of the forest elephant in Tai National Park, Ivory Coast
Pachyderm, 1984 Also published in Swara vol 7 no 5, 1984. Research on the ecology of the forest elephant is of recent development due to its habitat, the tropical rain forest. Methods used in Tai National Park were based on indirect observation.
Gunter Merz
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Viability of sawdust briquettes for rural Ghana [PDF]
, 2011 The growing demand for solid fuels in the developing world has begun to place enormous pressure on natural resources with an especially heavy toll on the forests of sub-Saharan Africa.
Mohedas, Ibrahim
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Traceability system for capturing, processing and providing consumer-relevant information about wood products: System solution and its economic feasibility [PDF]
, 2015 Current research and practice reports indicate the existence of purchase barriers concerning eco-friendly products, e.g. wood products. These can be ascribed to consumers' mistrust regarding the non-observable environmental impact of wood products.
Appelhanz, Shanna +3 more
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Automated Perching of a Multirotor UAV atop Round Timber Posts
2018 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2018 Multirotor UAVs currently suffer from endurance issues due to limited battery capacity, greatly limiting their use for surveillance tasks in fields such as agriculture.
Tzu-Jui Lin, Siyu Long, K. Stol
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Biomass‐derived hydrochars as eco‐friendly adsorbents for wastewater treatment applications
Environmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.Abstract Emerging organic pollutants (EOPs), such as diethyl phthalate (DEP), bisphenol A (BPA), and methylene blue (MB), are only partially removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants. This study assesses hydrochars produced by hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of spruce bark (SB), vine shoots (VSs), and wheat straw (WSs) for removing three ...
Emanuel Gheorghita Armanu +6 more
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