ecosystem services
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Finding a way in for better landscape governance
Landscape approaches provide a framework to find solutions to social, environmental and economic challenges. In the past, sectoral approaches were…
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Nepal’s ecosystems: Aiming for new heights
Nepal is a country of vast extremes, from lowlands and forested plains to mountain ranges, and, of course, the iconic…
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More than putting a price tag on the planet
How do we calculate the worth of nature? What carries the highest value: the habitat of an endangered species, a…
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‘Green deserts’ or functional forests?
Natural forests support life in complex ways. Forest ecosystems are habitats for animals and humans, they regulate air quality, temperature…
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Q&A: Lessons from Latin America for forest landscape restoration
This interview is Part II of a three-part series on forest landscape restoration to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation…
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Regreening Ethiopia
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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Q&A: Lessons from China for forest landscape restoration
This interview is Part 1 of a three-part series on forest landscape restoration to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation…
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Mangroves: A global treasure under threat
Indonesia contains the largest area of mangrove forest in the world About 3 million hectares of mangrove forest grow along…
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Landscape approach could pave way to achieving SDGs: experts
LIMA, Peru—The design of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should use the principles of landscape approaches, said experts…
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Forest transition spurs policy shifts in Vietnam
Vietnam has witnessed a forest transition on a massive scale. Between 1943 and 1990, the country lost 5 million hectares…
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Examples in Asia lend weight to policy link for forests, farms
A persistent divide in policy governing agriculture and forest management must be bridged, according to experts at a recent conference…
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Impact evaluation: Toward a body of evidence on effective forest conservation
Forest conservation could benefit from more, and better, impact evaluation to understand what works and what not, but evaluation efforts…
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Forging fire resilience on Amazon forest fringes in Peru
Víctor Gutiérrez spots a thick column of smoke rising from an overgrown field outside Pucallpa city in Peru’s Amazon region,…
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Adaptation leader: Bruno Locatelli on the importance of climate adaptation finance for forests
This interview was originally published by Acclimatise Bruno Locatelli, environmental scientist at CIRAD and CIFOR, who speaks of the emerging…
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Lessons from the Amazon: Searching for a Sustainable Future for Forests and People
The Amazon rainforest hosts some of the richest biodiversity in the world; stores vast amounts of carbon; and regulates the…
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