Landscapes
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Feed the world: New global report highlights forests’ role
BOGOR, Indonesia – Forests and trees must be considered essential in global food security and dietary diversity, according to a…
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Best predictor of severe fires in the Western Amazon? Drought
Drought is a better predictor of Amazonian fire frequency and severity than the extent of forest cover or other vegetation…
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Frontier expansion: Lessons from Bolivia and Pará, Brazil.
Land tenure rights have been widely considered as key to improving environmental governance. In the Brazilian state of Pará, and…
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We need to protect Congo’s forests against shifting cultivation… or do we?
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to the second-largest single block of forest in the world, and its…
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Just one map to a better future: Landscapes Summit
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Less than a year after 250 companies signed a commitment to zero deforestation, it may be easy to think…
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Landscapes Summit: Encouraging the dollar flow into the green
JAKARTA, Indonesia— A sustainable green business model with long-term profitability: how to marry these two concerns was the subject of…
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Financiers with commitment needed, Landscapes Summit told
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Establishing finance mechanisms by which the private sector can invest in sustainable development was a prominent theme on the…
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The big spill: Intensive farming alters soils in forest remnants, study finds
BOGOR, Indonesia—Failure to consider the effects of agriculture spillover into areas adjacent to intensely farmed zones will likely have severe…
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Watchers of forests – what news from above?
When new data on global forests are published, it is always a grand opportunity to update analyses of global, regional…
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Less laws, more communication, collaboration and capacity needed: expert
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Weak government institutions often hamper international conventions and treaties related to protecting forest resources, a leading expert says.…
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On ‘landscape approach’, scientists search for meaning
BOGOR, Indonesia—It’s an increasingly prominent way of thinking about land use that has yet, somewhat usefully, defied easy definition. Now,…
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How viable are payment schemes for ‘blue carbon’?
Much is made about the loss of such “charismatic” ecosystems as tropical rain forests and coral reefs. Far less is…
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Rights, resources and environmental impacts: A complex but crucial link
It is well known that property rights, which govern how individuals can control, benefit from and transfer property, influence the…
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It’s a forest, not a ‘museum’: What sustainable development means in the tropics
BOGOR, Indonesia—A tropical forest: A habitat for wildlife, untouched by humans? Or trees ripe to be cleared for profit? Or…
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