[PDF] Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes Sweri Biophysical Monitoring Workshop Report eBook

Author : Dave Egan
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
ISBN :

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Paying for large-scale ecological restoration of dry forests on federally managed lands throughout the western United States is urgently needed, but also quite expensive. Most experts agree that federal dollars will not be enough to do the job. While one of the obvious ways to help pay for restoration of overstocked forests is from timber sale proceeds, there may be another option-the sale of carbon credits in the newly emerging carbon marketplace. In this white paper, we discuss the basic issues involved in carbon trading, especially as it applies to forests and forest restoration in the American West. While the current carbon market situation is unlikely to provide much economic advantage, emerging federal cap-and-trade legislation and continuing interest in S2greenS3 economics may soon support a market-based scenario where healthy, restored forests are valued for their prodigious ecosystem services.

Author : Ching-Hsun Huang
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Carbon offsetting
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Economic development in forested rural areas is a key component of ecological restoration activities in the frequent fire forests of the Intermountain West, and nowhere is economic improvement more sorely needed than on the regions numerous Native American reservations. In this ERI white paper, we analyze the potential of improving the economy of the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah) through the sale of carbon credits for carbon sequestered in its Tribal forests.

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Publisher : National Technical Info Svc
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :

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This document is a cooperative effort among fifteen Federal agencies and partners to produce a common reference on stream corridor restoration. It responds to a growing national and international interest in restoring stream corridors.

Author : Jeanne Marie Teutonico
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0892366915

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Archaeological sites around the world are threatened by forces including population growth, development, urbanization, pollution, tourism, vandalism and looting. Site management planning is emerging as a critical element not only for the conservation of this heritage, but also to address issues such as tourism and sustainable development. This book reports on the proceedings of a workshop held in Greece, where an international group of professionals gathered to discuss challenges faced by archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and to examine management planning methods that might generate effective conservation strategies.

Author : Frank E. Zachos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642209920

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Biodiversity and its conservation are among the main global topics in science and politics and perhaps the major challenge for the present and coming generations. This book written by international experts from different disciplines comprises general chapters on diversity and its measurement, human impacts on biodiversity hotspots on a global scale, human diversity itself and various geographic regions exhibiting high levels of diversity. The areas covered range from genetics and taxonomy to evolutionary biology, biogeography and the social sciences. In addition to the classic hotspots in the tropics, the book also highlights various other ecosystems harbouring unique species communities including coral reefs and the Southern Ocean. The approach taken considers, but is not limited to, the original hotspot definition sensu stricto and presents a chapter introducing the 35th hotspot, the forests of East Australia. While, due to a bias in data availability, the majority of contributions on particular taxa deal with vertebrates and plants, some also deal with the less-studied invertebrates. This book will be essential reading for anyone involved with biodiversity, particularly researchers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, ecology and evolution.

Author : Stephanie Mansourian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387291121

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This book, published in cooperation with WWF International, integrates the restoration of forest functions into landscape conservation plans. The contents represent the collective body of knowledge and experience of WWF and its many partners - collected here for the first time. This guide will serve as a first stop for practitioners and researchers in many organizations and regions, and as a key reference on the subject.

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521634557

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Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Author : Stephane Hallegatte
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464806748

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Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.