forestry research Articles
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Urban forestry in India: development and research scenario
Urban green spaces are integral components of urban ecosystems, contributing to enhanced environmental quality, quality of life and sustainable urban development. Scientific evidence in the last two decades have emphasised the crucial necessity of green areas within urban social-ecological systems to ameliorate several problems of city-culture. Role of parks and gardens has become much more ...
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Governance in Ukrainian forestry: trends, impacts and remedies
In this paper, we address governance by analysing the relevant institutions and investigating their impact on economic and environmental performance in Ukrainian forestry. The research questions are: how does the transition to a market economy affect the forest institutions and what are the trends, impacts and remedies for promoting sustainable forestry? The combination of past exploitation of ...
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Rio Summit may `ignore` forests, warn scientists
Forests have barely been mentioned in the draft of the international agreement to be made at the Rio+20 Earth Summit later this year (20-22 June), the body that represents 15,000 of the world's forest researchers has complained. Forests provide resources essential to the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people, but only one paragraph is devoted to forests in the 'zero draft' — the document that ...
By SciDev.Net
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Assessing agroforestry`s advantages
Agroforestry, the deliberate placement of trees into crop and livestock operations, can help capture substantial amounts of carbon on agricultural lands while providing production and conservation benefits. However, we currently lack tools for accurately estimating current and projected carbon values in these systems. In North America, windbreaks are an effective carbon-capturing option. Only ...
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Soil conservation and protection in Europe - the way ahead
This book introduces the reader to the current soil protection and conservation debate in Europe. It is written for the informed person with a background in for example environmental science, agriculture, forestry, geography or law. The focus of this book is not on the scientific analysis of the problem but rather on the actions that can be taken to improve and protect European soils. We have ...
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Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia - Case Study
“Combining Sepacore with Syncore Polyvap means you can work faster and better. The active substances produced are purer. This is the key to fast, cost-efficient, high-quality analysis." Company / Institution Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia Product lines Parallel Evaporation Customer: Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia Bogor Agriculture University is one of the larger ...
By BUCHI
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Can Latin America do palm oil right?
As western hemisphere oil palm plantations boom, environmentalists eye ways to avoid repeating the devastation in Southeast Asia. What do soap, Ben & Jerry’s and Kit Kat bars have in common? They all contain palm oil — produced by the oil palm tree. Native to West Africa, oil palm has been planted throughout the tropics to provide a source of this increasingly in-demand ...
By Ensia
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Why Our Buildings Should Be Made From Wood
If done correctly, using wood for buildings would have a number of environmental benefits without loss of biodiversity or carbon storage capacity. Although it may seem counterintuitive, it would be better if we built buildings from wood than from concrete, brick, aluminium and steel. We use millions of tons of these modern materials every year. They have many valuable properties, but are ...
By Ensia
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Use of Profile Probes saves time and money for EU funded FutMon forest monitoring team - case Study
FutMon project Delta‐T Profile Probes have been installed at four sites across the U.K. to provide soil moisture data as part of FutMon, an EU Life+ project. The aim of FutMon is to create a Europe‐ wide long term forest monitoring system. The FutMon partner organisation in the UK is Forest Research (Centre for Forestry and Climate Change). The data required for FutMon are being ...
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