Angela Dewan
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Climate Governance: Ensuring a Collective Commitment
By Angela Dewan Concerns of human rights abuses and a lack of consultation with forest-dependent communities in REDD+ design are…
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Forest Crimes and Money Trails
By Angela Dewan The issue of measurement, reporting and verification of carbon levels is set for the agenda at COP…
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Getting REDD+ Right
By Angela Dewan The idea that developed countries could pay developing countries to conserve their forests has come a long…
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Certifying the Timber Trade
By Angela Dewan As countries that cut down swathes of forest face mounting pressure from the world to stop, many…
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False Hope for Biofuels and Livelihoods
By Angela Dewan The great biofuel debate is still going, and it looks like it may be here to stay…
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In Search of Alternatives for Encroachers and Squatters of Protected Parks
By Angela Dewan One of the greatest challenges in designing forest conservation projects is ensuring forest-dependent communities do not lose…
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Keeping Up the REDD+ Momentum
By Angela Dewan Just one year ago, all hopes were pegged on REDD to slow down global deforestation and mitigate…
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Ecosystems Are Key to Climate Change Adaptation
By Angela Dewan Communities in developing countries that depend directly on ecosystems will be among the first and worst affected…
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Tropical Biodiversity: An Economic Asset
By Angela Dewan There is constant debate about how to balance economic development and conservation. In reality, conservation…
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Grooming Future Foresters
By Angela Dewan Forestry scientists get a bad wrap for past mistakes, according to Chair of the Program…
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Biofuels: The Good, The Bad and The Uncertain
By Angela Dewan Last decade, biofuels were talked about among world leaders like the deus ex machina of…
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Complex Answers to Complex Problems
By Angela Dewan As CIFOR’s Director-General Frances Seymour pointed out on Tuesday in her keynote speech, there…
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Forest Management That Reflects Diversity
By Angela Dewan Earlier today, Verina Ingram of CIFOR, Cameroon, spoke about the overemphasis on timber in forest…
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Seeing the Forest for More Than Trees
By Angela Dewan It’s easy to look at a table and forget it was once a tree. As the Korean…
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The Magic of Mangroves
By Angela Dewan The thick mangroves of the tropics offer local communities a number of services and products.…
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