Amazon deforestationImpact evaluationPrivate initiativeEnvironmental regulationCredit constraintsEnvironmental protection, even with strong environmental laws on the books, often fails in developing countries because of limited government ability to monitor and enforce environmental laws. An alternative route to ...
In the Amazon, protected forests sit right next to logging operations. With lax enforcement, sometimes the protected forest ends up getting logged, as well. But what if it was impossible for the logging machines to cut down protected trees? A few lines of computer code entered into the...
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... If forests enhance the amount and frequency of precipitation simply by being there, deforestation as part of agricultural expansion everywhere, must necessarily result in less rainfall and more frequent droughts. This view is most poignantly expressed by the saying: Man walks the earth and ...
How Central African countries like Gabon manage their share of the world's second-largest rainforest is critical. The so-called lungs of Africa store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon, help regulate temperatures, and generate rain for millions in the arid Sahel and distant Ethiopian ...
Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, two University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues have found....
EARTH TALK ; Helping Prevent Amazon DeforestationDear EarthTalk: What can I do to help prevent deforestation inthe Amazon even if I don't live in...
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To address this gap, here we applied the fire-enabled Potsdam Earth Model to examine these feedback mechanisms in the Amazon. By studying forest recovery after complete deforestation, we discovered that fire prevents regrowth across 56-82% of the potential natural forest area, contingent on ...
In this opinion piece, we address the approach of policies and social actions to reverse the situation using the experiences of locals. Keywords: deforestation; Tropical Dry Forests; agriculture; wildfires; public policies1. Introduction Forests, especially humid tropical forests such as the Amazon, ...