Forests
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function. The Food and Agriculture Organization defines a forest as land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. Using this definition FRA 2020 found that forests covered 4.06 billion hectares …
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WRI: World Resources Institute · 3 June 2024 English
(SDPT) in three areas: boundaries, to spatially differentiate planted forests and tree crops from natural and seminatural forests on a global scale; tree species information, to help screen for the illegal …
Topic FORESTS March 6, 2024 80 Pages Technical Note Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT Version … differentiate planted forests and tree crops from natural and seminatural forests on a global scale; tree … Research ...... This Technical Note is part of Forests. Reach out to Jessica Richter for more information … sector commitments refer to monitoring “forests” or “natural forests,” GFW monitors global “tree cover” and … the GFW platform includes natural and planted forests, as well as other tree crops that are not typically …
CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 25 April 2024 English
The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) conducts in-depth, policy-relevant research and provides evidence- based recommendations to the challenges facing India and the world. [...] CSEP is based in …
existing but degraded forest land and livestock open forests (7.4 million ha). The rest would require Fertiliser … Manure management 0.6% 6.1% expand the area under forests and trees by 14%. Crop residue burning 1.6% 0.6% …
GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English
The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …
environment is thriving. It means ensuring that our forests, peatlands, hedgerows, wetlands, grasslands, soils … (the Amazon rainforest, coral reefs and Boreal forests), suggesting the potential for nature-related risks …
DEval: Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungs-Zusammenarbeit · 22 April 2024 English
Communications Earth & Environment, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01356-0
agriculture; changing planting dates; Mangrove forests; sand dunes mar- tions (NbS) well as sustainable …
ActionAid Association (India) · 21 April 2024 English
Definition of Construction Workers The definition of construction workers in the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 should be amended and expanded in line with supply and value chains …
urban green spaces, including parks, playgrounds, forests, lakes, and water bodies, as essential recreational … Establish nature’s rights: Recognize that rivers, forests, and other natural entities have a right to exist … the preservation of common lands for grazing and forests to maintain the green cover and meet the villagers’ … urban commons such as urban water bodies, urban forests, and natural green zones. This must be done with …
RFF: Resources for the Future · 19 April 2024
Wildfire Smoke in the United States Jacob Gellman and Matthew Wibbenmeyer Working Paper 24-04 April 2024 About the Authors Jacob Gellman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics …
wildfires—uncontrolled fires burning on wildlands such as forests and shrublands. The paper proceeds as follows. … Communities and Improve Resilience in America’s Forests (No. FS- 1187d). Urbanski, S. P., Hao, W. M., & …
RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 19 April 2024 English
HEALTH SECURITY The 2009-2013 AIFS Framework recognised the multi-faceted nature of the 2007- 08 GFPC, including the competing demands for land between agriculture and biofuel markets, and interactions between food …
multilateral The number of trees lost in tropical forests in Brazil and institutions, academia, civil society …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 19 April 2024 English
special prayers for Palestinians, The troops are not confined to the Line Kashmiris of Control (LoC) and borders but are The Nation, 10 April 2024 also stationed within civilian areas, …
working committee so 78131843235156475 that the forests of the region are Khurram Husain@KhurramHusain …
ICG: International Crisis Group · 18 April 2024 English
16 “Memorandum Order 32: Reinforcing the Guidelines for the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in the Implementation of Measures to Suppress and Prevent Lawless Violence”, …
protection discussions could address protected forests in former guerrilla strongholds as well as safeguards …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 17 April 2024 English
All names and claims expressed in this book of abstracts are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated …
restoration of biogenic nursery habitats (e.g. kelp forests and eelgrass beds) could assist successful recruitment … recruitment of juvenile herring. In the case of kelp forests, this approach could combine with ecologically … transform less vegetated tidal flats into mangrove forests. To assess the impact, we conducted an analysis … feeding rates, leading to the destruction of kelp forests and the loss of economically important fishery … Management as a way to maintain sustainable mangrove forests and acknowledge and strengthen local livelihoods …
