Sentences with phrase «control over their forests»

Now that Indonesian communities such as Arkilaus's are gaining control over their forests, tremendous investments will be needed to support them, too.

I saw the power of Living Purpose and Rooted Membership in the community forests of Mexico, where control over forests has often been granted to indigenous tribal peoples — like the Zapotec Indians of Ixtlan de Juarez in southern Mexico.

The authors argue that for tropical forests to remain an important carbon sink, indigenous groups will need greater control over their forests.

Not exact matches

Bloomberg reports that stricter capital controls have cast a shadow over the future of Forest City, a sprawling a Malaysian version of Shenzhen being developed by China's Country Garden Holdings Co..

Bands of peasants, armed and on the move, were taking over control of part of the Black Forest in the south - west, by the middle of August.

The reason could be that plant defenses against pathogens gradually weaken after a fire, Moritz and Odion speculate — for instance, from stiffer competition among plants as they grow, decreased chemical defenses as they age, or depletion of soil nutrients.The findings suggest that California's fight against forest fires over many decades may have precipitated or accelerated the outbreak, and that perhaps controlled burning could be used to halt it, the authors say.

Then, in a series of experiments, the researchers looked at how the highest and lowest rated power songs affected both people's sense of power and three previously identified psychological and behavioral consequences of power: the tendency to see the forest instead of the trees (thought abstraction), perceived control over social events (illusion of control), and the desire to move first in competitive interactions.

Strikingly filmed in a multi-national production by cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska over three changing seasons in the Klodzko Valley's towns, forests, meadows, into the night and in the snows on the mountainous Czech - Polish border, maybe Janina can control supernatural forces too so surprisingly, and even romantically, prevail.

The New England Forest Rally, the sixth event on Rally America's 2008 schedule, is half over, and blue - suited mechanics are swarming around Block's STI, hastily replacing a pair of bent suspension control arms and a broken wheel.

After this we will go to the zip line camp to enjoy it approximately for 3 hours ziplining over the forest, a lot trees, there are 6 differents cables, the first one is to learn how to control yourself in the camble, how fast you want go in next cables and by the end you will become expert to be able to do outsidedonw, super man, super chica, also part of the zip line adventure can enjoy Hamas, a Peruvian table game.

After gaining complete control over the Peaceful Forest, Wario begins his plans of attacking the Mushroom Kingdom with the help of his various monsters.

On top of the blistering one - on - one brawls the franchise is famed for, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4's multi-stage battles will let us summon and control characters that are dozens if not hundreds of storeys tall, laying waste to entire forests and towering over the scenery as we take on similarly monstrous opponents in outrageous escalating anime showdowns.

The government program includes a moratorium on expansion of cultivation, control and prevention of forest fires, assessment of degradation impacts to determine future sustainable land use, implementation of sustainable land use, conservation of peatlands, a focus on resolving conflicts over resource issues, and enhancement of good governance.

Abstract — 2008 Climate and wildfires in the North American boreal forest... Climate controls the area burned through changing the dynamics of large - scale teleconnection patterns (Pacific Decadal Oscillation / El Niño Southern Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation, PDO / ENSO and AO) that control the frequency of blocking highs over the continent at different time scales......... Since the end of the Little Ice Age, the climate has been unusually moist and variable: large fire years have occurred in unusual years, fire frequency has decreased and fire — climate relationships have occurred at interannual to decadal time scales...... http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1501/2315.short ----------------------

In this new podcast, RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman sits down to talk about the granting of titles to indigenous communities in Latin American countries to take over the control of their local forests.

Accelerated forest thinning to reduce water stress and wildfire risk is one of the only management options under our control, and it is probably the most critical to apply over the short term.

With complete control over how the funds are used and no allocation of conventional carbon credits to contributors, the initiative maintains Brazil's sovereignty over the Amazon and gives it an unprecedented financial incentive to preserve the region's forest cover.

The rain forest in South America would have shriveled short of the Brazilian Air Force doing Air Control & more over the farms.

Those «empty» maps favored the interests of the timber industry and its enablers in the state government, says Lukas Straumann, executive director of the Bruno Manser Fund, and that's led to showdowns with the Penan over control of their forest home.

It describes the historical and constitutional geography of American public lands: the national parks, forests, wilderness system, and grazing lands, and disputes over federal versus local control of these.

Spatial variability and controls over biomass stocks, carbon fluxes and resource - use efficiencies in forest ecosystems.

For example, the root system of forest trees facilitates both storage and extraction of moisture from soil; biogenic aerosols produced by trees control the intensity of water vapor condensation over the forest; the large height of trees determines the vertical temperature gradient under the canopy, keeping soil evaporation under biotic control; tall trees are also essential for surface friction that does not allow extremely high wind velocities to develop.

Canadian experience in wilderness protection provides an example of forest conservation polices and laws that have generally been hostile to, and systematically biased against, Indigenous peoples because they have denied Indigenous peoples control over their territories and access to life - saving forest resources.

As I chased my wounded prey through the forest I was washed over with a sense of power and control.