Essays about: "reforestation success"

Found 5 essays containing the words reforestation success.

  1. 1. Assessing the impact of post-fire restoration interventions using spectral vegetation indices: A case study in El Bruc, Spain

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Bernat Dorado Guerrero; [2022]
    Keywords : geography; GIS; restoration intervention; drylands; monitoring; BACI; spectral vegetation indices; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Ecological restoration has become an increasingly used practice to revert degraded land and mitigate the effects of extreme events in vulnerable biomes such as drylands. Methods to improve the assessment of these restoration interventions are essential to ensure their success, optimize resources and identify improvement aspects for future interventions. READ MORE

  3. 2. Experiencing and responding to climate change in the Andes : campesino experiences with – and Responses to – changes in the climate in the Andean highlands of Southern Ecuador

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Noortje Wauben; [2020]
    Keywords : climate change; values; Andes; Ecuador; Campesinos; perception; knowledge; response;

    Abstract : Climate change poses a significant challenge to society, in particular as it constitutes a threat to food security. Considering Andean campesinos are heavily affected by changes in the climate and substantially contribute to the food security of the larger Andean population, it is crucial to investigate their experiences with – and (undertaken and proposed) responses to – changes in the climate. READ MORE

  4. 3. Business models for sustainable investments in the context of tropical forest restoration

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Anna Borgersen; [2017]
    Keywords : Sustainable development; business innovation; forest landscape restoration; sustainable business model; sustainable business; triple bottom line;

    Abstract : The Tropics continue to provide the most biologically diverse and carbon rich forest in the world, but they are being lost at alarming rates. To meet the global climate change targets and the UN sustainable development goals, financing is urgently needed to speed up and increase tropical forest restoration. READ MORE

  5. 4. Influence of the legal regulation concerning reforestation on the reforestation success : a case-study of Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : Pavlo Polupan; [2009]
    Keywords : reforestation; forest policy; flexibility of the legal regulation; reforestation success;

    Abstract : Nowadays, the question of improving the reforestation success increases in importance in most European countries, especially in those with a large share of privately owned forests. Legal regulations in such countries provide much more opportunities for decision- taking opportunities to the forest owner. READ MORE

  6. 5. Diffusion of innovations : reforestation in Haiti

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Raffaella Bellanca; [2007]
    Keywords : Reforestation; Haiti; Sustainable development; Diffusion of Innovations;

    Abstract : Development discourse emerged from the implicit assumption that the technological achievements and societal organizations of western civilization represent successes of humankind in inhabiting the planet, and should therefore be promoted among other cultures. The ecological threats of this time suggest the contrary, forcing us to reconsider the positiveness of over exploitations of natural resources and to recognize the paradox of the economical growth model. READ MORE