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High Conservation Value Or High Confusion Value? Sustainable Agriculture And Biodiversity Conservation In The Tropics, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, David S. Wilcove
High Conservation Value Or High Confusion Value? Sustainable Agriculture And Biodiversity Conservation In The Tropics, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, David S. Wilcove
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Publications
Green labeling of products that have been produced sustainably is an emerging tool of the environmental movement. A prominent example is the Forest Stewardship Council, which certifies timber that is harvested to manage and maintain forests defined as having High Conservation Value (HCV). The criteria for HCV are now being applied to four rapidly expanding crops in the tropics: oil palm, soy, sugarcane, and cacao. However, these criteria do not provide adequate protection for biodiversity when applied to agriculture. The only criterion that provides blanket protection to forests is one that protects large expanses of habitat (≥20,000-500,000 ha, depending on …
Modeling The Spatial And Temporal Heterogeneity Of Deforestation-Driven Carbon Emissions: The Inpe-Em Framework Applied To The Brazilian Amazon, Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar, Jean Pierre Ometto, Carlos Nobre, David Montenegro Lapola, Claudio Almeida, Ima Célia Vieira, Joao Vianei Soares, Regina Alvala, Sassan Saatchi, Dalton Valeriano, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio
Modeling The Spatial And Temporal Heterogeneity Of Deforestation-Driven Carbon Emissions: The Inpe-Em Framework Applied To The Brazilian Amazon, Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar, Jean Pierre Ometto, Carlos Nobre, David Montenegro Lapola, Claudio Almeida, Ima Célia Vieira, Joao Vianei Soares, Regina Alvala, Sassan Saatchi, Dalton Valeriano, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio
United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Publications
We present a generic spatially explicit modeling framework to estimate carbon emissions from deforestation (INPE-EM). The framework incorporates the temporal dynamics related to the deforestation process and accounts for the biophysical and socioeconomic heterogeneity of the region under study. We build an emission model for the Brazilian Amazon combining annual maps of new clearings, four maps of biomass, and a set of alternative parameters based on the recent literature. The most important results are as follows: (a) Using different biomass maps leads to large differences in estimates of emission; for the entire region of the Brazilian Amazon in the last …