deforest

Examples of deforestation

deforestation
The common assumption that if there is national deforestation, then there is a felt need to plant trees, needs to be reexamined.
The lack of a precise measure of the appropriate deforestation process is a serious limitation of previous studies on the topic.
This would require massive deforestation around the world, and conversion of many fragile hillsides and drylands to cropping for which they are environmentally unsuitable.
Chapter 1, written by the editors, opens by describing the scope of the book and the role of local institutions in deforestation.
Using observed past deforestation, we find that while risk-targeted payments are far more efficient, capped flat payments are more egalitarian.
Damage inflicted by upstream deforestation on downstream farmers without compensation is an example of the former.
For example, what factors are the leading causes for tropical deforestation, and what global policy agendas can be adopted to halt this process most effectively?
Fuel wood from improved fallows on far m may provide a means to conserve the natural vegetation, which is under threat due to deforestation.
Apparently, species with smaller niches (= specialists) have less chance to survive deforestation and are more prone to local extinction than those with wider niches.
The compounding effects of tropical deforestation and greenhouse warming on climate.
It thus complements the existing studies on the link between indebtedness and deforestation.
When an apparent regional dry period peaking around a. d. 900 coupled with the effects of local deforestation, the south's equilibrium was upset.
Nonetheless, all agree that deforestation is one of the major sources of carbon release, as this book brilliantly describes.
The respondents shared deep concerns about the long-lasting polluting effects caused by deforestation, industry, vehicles and the use of chemical inputs in agriculture.
The effect on deforestation occurs indirectly, through the impact on returns to land associated with a change in the relative price of agricultural commodities.
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