O estudo abordou a cadeia de produção e de comercialização e os aspectos do consumo do látex medicinal de amapá amargoso (Pa...
Authors: da Serra Silva, M.;Fantini, A.C.;Shanley, P.
Articles
A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective
Publication Year : 2011
Swidden agriculture is often deemed responsible for deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions, yet swidden landscap...
Authors: Hett, C.;Castella, J.C.;Heinimann, A.;Messerli, P.;Pfund, J.L.
Comparison of carbon assimilation estimates over tropical forest types in India based on different satellite and climate data products
Publication Year : 2011
Carbon assimilation defined as the overall rate of fixation of carbon through the process of photosynthesis is central to the clim...
Authors: Joseph, S.;van Laake, P.;Thomas, A.P.;Eklundh, L.
Sustainable forest management based on state practice in Central Africa countries
Publication Year : 2011
This piece of writing briefly reviews the nterpretation of the concept of sustainable forest management (SFM) deduced from state r...
Authors: Assembe-Mvondo, S.;Ebaa-Atyi, R.;Lescuyer, G.;Wardell, D.A.
Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: Global comparative assessment and implications for governance
Publication Year : 2011
The 2000s witnessed the rapid expansion of biofuel plantations in the global South in the context of a growing trend of crop plant...
Authors: German, L.;Schoneveld, G.;Pacheco, P.
Implications of biodiesel-induced land-use changes for CO2 emissions: Case studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia
Publication Year : 2011
Biofuels are receiving growing negative attention. Direct and/or indirect land-use changes that result from their cultivation can ...
Authors: Achten, W.M.J.;Verchot, L.V.
Lack of conservation effort rapidly increases African great ape extinction risk
Publication Year : 2011
A network of resource management areas (RMAs) exists across tropical Africa to protect natural resources. However, many are poorly...
Authors: Tranquilli, S.;Abedi-Lartey, M.;Amsini, F.;Arranz, L.;Asamoah, A.;Babafemi, O.;Barakabuye, N.;Campbell, G.;Chancellor, R.;Davenport, T.R.B.;Dunn, A.;Dupain, J.;Ellis, C.;Etoga, G.;Furuichi, T.;Gatti, S.;Ghiurghi, A.;Greengrass, E.;Hashim
Organisational and Institutional Opportunities and Constraints for Poor Households to Participate in Payment for Environmental Service Schemes in Vietnam
Publication Year : 2011
Payment for environmental services (PES) can be a poverty reduction strategy. Findings from two PES case studies in Vietnam indica...
Authors: Pham, T.T.;Garnett, S.T.;Aslin, H.J.
Jatropha in Mexico: Environmental and social impacts of an incipient biofuel program
Publication Year : 2011
Three case studies from Mexico are presented in which the impacts of the recent introduction of jatropha cultivation for biodiesel...
Authors: Skutsch, M;de los Rios, M.;Solis, S.;Riegelhaupt, E.;Hinojosa, D.;Gerfert, S.;Gao, Y.;Masera, O.
High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon
Publication Year : 2011
High-yield agriculture potentially reduces pressure on forests by requiring less land to increase production. Using satellite and ...
Authors: Gutierrez-Velez, V.H.;DeFries, R.;Pinedo-Vasquez, M.;Uriarte, M.;Padoch, C.;Baethgen, W.;Fernandes, K.;Lim, Y.