Sentences with phrase «forest land conversions»

Forest degradation and forest land conversion are different aspects of the same problem, caused by multiple and interacting factors, such as economic growth, macroeconomic policies, population movements and the legislative framework, intertwined with climatic variation, economic activities and urbanization, among others.

Not exact matches

While some forest - to - shrub land conversion scenarios resulted in higher stream flow, depending on factors such as the size and area covered by shrub leaves relative to tree leaves, Bart noted that a shrub - dominated landscape would not necessarily result in more water in stream.

Says Pokorny, the conversion of forest to agricultural land, a change that took centuries in Europe, «happened during one generation in western Kenya.»

As a result of strenuous efforts to suppress wildfire and other land - management practices such as livestock grazing, logging, and land - type conversion, 8,9 many forests have experienced fire deficits, becoming overgrown and littered with flammable material such as leaf litter and saplings.

Deforestation is the conversion of forest to another land use or the long - term reduction of the tree canopy cover.

Conversion to arable land changes the hydrological regime In the present study, the cause for the decrease in species diversity is the changing hydrological regime resulting from the conversion of forest to arable land.

The two largest factors influencing wildfire emissions included land use change, such as the conversion of forests to cropland, and local population increases, the researchers say.

That different path includes minimizing further forest conversions, rehabilitating large - scale degraded eco-systems (the Loess Plateau story is a great example), climate smart agriculture with sustainable land, nutrient, water and carbon management practices, etc..

Given their potential cost - effectiveness, logged forests represent an opportunity to increase connectivity between protected areas and to enlarge existing parks, two goals that are becoming increasingly urgent in Southeast Asia as existing parks are illegally degraded or become increasingly isolated by conversion of adjacent areas to oil palm plantations and other agricultural lands.

This 170 percent increase in the amount of land slated for agribusiness, much of it under forest cover, since Myanmar's new government took office, and the additional millions of acres identified as available for agricultural conversion, contradicts national statements purporting to protect Myanmar's remaining forests and land rights.

The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of peat forests, dispossessing local communities of land, and engaging in a heavy - handed campaign to undermine its critics within Indonesia and abroad.

We help curb international and national drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, such as the conversion of forest land to agricultural land.

The ecological value of old growth wasn't appreciated at the time, and future pressure for wholesale conversion of old growth to timber production on US Forest Service land wasn't anticipated.

The rate of deforestation shows signs of decreasing, but is still alarmingly high Deforestation — mainly the conversion of tropical forest to agricultural land — shows signs of decreasing in several countries but continues at a high rate in others (Boxes 1 — 3).

It reveals that the EU's plans for biofuels will result in the conversion of up to 69 000 square kilometres of land to agricultural use potentially putting forests, other natural ecosystems, and poor communities at risk.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

While the article still does not recognize that land conversion, particularly in the low latitudes but also in the boreal forest regions continues and, therefore, will add further to how humans are altering the climate, it is an important step for the IPCC to finally make.

A report on the threat posed to the last remaining populations of orangutans by illegal logging and the conversion of forest land to oil palm plantations..

Underlying factors affecting forest conversion include population growth, agricultural development, land tenure, governance of land - use changes, changing markets, technological improvements, and active policy interventions.

Future coupling of demography with existing global land model predictions could enable assessment of these potentially important die - off responses [44], as well as implementation of more realistic reductions in tree loss to drive scenarios (i.e., enabling assessments of ecological changes less drastic or occurring on shorter time - scales than conversion from forest to grassland biomes).

Going beyond the difficulties of determining land ownership and rights to resources, these include «extremely challenging governance conditions in many tropical forest countries, complex land - use pressures due to scarce agricultural land and unclear land tenure situations, very high profits from alternative land - uses such as destructive logging or conversion for cash crops,» says Ebeling.

Overall the researchers estimate that 20 percent of U.S. carbon emissions could be offset through afforestation, or the conversion of marginal agricultural lands into forests.

This would require the clearing of forest and grassland for food production, with associated emissions from land conversion.

Cracking down on the illegal timber trade and illegal conversion of forests for large - scale agribusiness helps to mitigate climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from land use change.

Tree cover loss may be the result of human activities, including forestry practices such as timber harvesting or deforestation (the conversion of natural forest to other land uses), as well as natural causes such as disease or storm damage.

Fueled by surging demand from China and other emerging economies, and boosted by the convergence of food and energy markets in response to American and European incentives for biofuels, the worldwide commodity boom over the past few years helped trigger a land rush that precipitated the conversion of natural forests for farms, plantations, and ranches.

The country's political commitment to tackling deforestation and forest degradation has been questioned — for example, it remains the largest exporter of timber in the world, and continues to back large - scale land conversion plans under a paradigm of «green development».

Fueled by surging demand from China and other emerging economies, and boosted by the convergence of food and energy markets in response to American and European incentives for biofuels, the worldwide commodity boom over the past few years helped trigger a land rush that precipitated the conversion of natural forests into farms, plantations, and ranches.

The paper, written by Jaboury Ghazoul and Lian Pin Koh of ETH Zurich and myself in September 2009, posits that by increasing the opportunity cost of conversion of forest land for agriculture, REDD will potentially constrain the amount of land available to meet growing demand for food.

Large - scale conversion of forests to crop lands is disrupting India's rainfall, a new study has found.

Deforestation is the conversion of forest to another land use — this includes conversion in «invaluable» forest areas - e.g. palm oil plantations and other uses.

Specifically, areas the authors suggest focusing on are restoring formerly forested land, preventing loss of existing forests, improving forestry and livestock management practices, using smarter application of chemical fertilizers and supporting agroforestry, and preventing the draining and conversion of wetlands — most prominently for palm oil cultivation.

Recent decades have seen increased conversion of natural forests to pine or eucalyptus monocultures (Zurita et al. 2006), and policy incentives for further land conversion may negatively affect biodiversity (Caparrós and Jacquemont 2003).

Let's just make that clear again: Cut down tropical rainforest (say in Indonesia and Malaysia), plant the land with a biofuel crop (perhaps oil palms) and because of the soil on which that forest used to grow it would take 600 hundred years for the carbon emitted from that land conversion to be balanced out by carbon savings by using that biofuel for transport.

Keep in mind that the «deforestation» number isn't from forest management, but from conversion of forest land to other land uses, such as housing developments.