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Combining Sentinel-1 and Landsat 8 Does Not Improve Classification Accuracy of Tropical Selective Logging

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Tropical forests play a key role in the global carbon and hydrological cycles, maintaining biological diversity, slowing climate change, and supporting the global economy and local livelihoods.
Matthew G. Hethcoat   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative Evaluation between Administrative and Watershed Boundary in Carbon Sequestration Monitoring - Towards UN-REDD for Mt. Geum-gang of North Korea -

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Impact Assessment, 2013
UN-REDD (United Nations programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) is currently being emerged as one of important mechanism to reduce carbon dioxide in relation to the deforestation. Although administrative boundary has already gained world-wide recognition as a typical method of monitoring unit in the process of GHG ...
Jun-Woo Kim, Jung-Sup Um
openaire   +2 more sources

Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding the recruitment and retention of minority ethnic teachers in England. Drawing on interview data from 33 teachers and school leaders of diverse ethnic backgrounds, it investigates whether racialised barriers identified in earlier research have shifted in the current context of ...
Antonina Tereshchenko   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green colonialism in Latin America? Towards a new research agenda for the global energy transition

open access: yesEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2022
Drawing on various empirical examples (e.g. lithium, green hydrogen, REDD+), several studies point out that the global energy transition continues to be based on the geographic externalization of labour, natural resources, and sinks.
Felix Malte Dorn
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing 'REDD'?: Forests, Climate Change Mitigation and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Examines proposals for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and their failure to protect indigenous peoples' rights or to address forest governance problems.
Tom Griffiths
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The spread of non‐native species

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree functional types simplify forest carbon stock estimates induced by carbon concentration variations among species in a subtropical area

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Forests contain one of the world’s largest carbon (C) pools and represent opportunities for cost-effective climate change mitigation through programmes such as the United Nations-led “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ...
Huili Wu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Desafíos jurídicos y políticos de la ENAREDD+ México: legalidad en la participación social y propiedad forestal

open access: yesSociedad y Ambiente, 2020
El objetivo del estudio es realizar una revisión del estado actual de la legalidad en la participación social y propiedad forestal reconocidas en la Estrategia Nacional para la Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación forestal (ENAREDD+), a
Ma. Liliana Ávalos Rodríguez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Putting the Pieces Together for Good Governance of REDD+: An Analysis of 32 REDD+ Country Readiness Proposals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Developing countries are receiving new financial and technical support to design and implement programs that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (referred to as REDD+).
Lauren Goers Williams
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