Essays about: "the problems of deforestation"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 38 essays containing the words the problems of deforestation.

1. 16. APRIL Ecosystem Restoration Project: A sustainable model for Indonesian peatlands?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Michael Ceruti; [2016]
   Keywords : Sustainable development; Ecosystem Restoration Concession; peatland degradation; restoration; conservation; Kampar Peninsula; Indonesia;

   Abstract : The growth in global population and the unsustainable business as usual model adopted by private companies in managing land, are causing huge pressures on Indonesian natural ecosystems. The widespread peatland deforestation and degradation affecting Indonesia has been the leading cause of biodiversity loss, decrease of vital ecosystem services, land subsidence, fires and increased impoverishment of local communities. READ MORE

3. 17. When money grows on trees-The case of beyond-compliance companies sourcing from the Amazon Rainforest

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Maximilian Engel; [2016]
   Keywords : Amazon Rainforest; sustainable business; beyond-compliance companies; Performance Framework; Balanced Scorecard; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The Amazon Rainforest is in grave danger of disappearing for good, due to a number of harmful economic activities, including land conversion for cattle ranching and monoculture, as well as unsustainable and illegal timber production. It has been shown, however, that the private sector has a crucial role in redressing socio-economic problems, causing deforestation and degradation. READ MORE

4. 18. The Indigenization of knowledge and power in the Peruvian Amazon : a case study for socio-environmental participatory monitoring processes in Aerija and Huao communities.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Aurora Eloisa Martín; [2016]
   Keywords : participatory monitoring; sustainability science; indigenous knowledge; power relations; feminist political ecology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The Amazon has always been a strategic region because of its rich variety in natural resources. Its global interest is spreading across levels and scales, influenced by the increasing demand for fossil fuels and biodiesel and the threat of climate change. READ MORE

5. 19. Collaboration to address a wicked problem : the case of certified palm oil

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Emma Lindahl; Joakim Widén; [2015]
   Keywords : Collaboration; corporate social responsibility; dialogue; industrial collaboration; multi-stakeholder collaboration; palm oil; wicked problem;

   Abstract : Corporations meet complex challenges as they operate on a global market. Global multidimensional problems are referred to wicked problems and which cannot be solved only managed. In this case, of certified palm oil, palm oil production can be seen as a wicked problem due to deforestation of rainforest, land grabbing and social conflicts. READ MORE

6. 20. Improving small-scale agriculture and countering deforestation: the case of biochar and biochar producing stoves in Embu County, Kenya

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Anders Magnusson; [2015]
   Keywords : new agricultural innovations; Integrated Soil Fertility Management ISFM ; biochar producing stoves; Biochar; soil amendment; Kenya; deforestation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This research examines the introduction and diffusion of biochar as a soil amendment and biochar producing stoves in Embu County, Kenya, together with its related socio-economic potentials and challenges. The area has seen rapid rates of deforestation together with declining soil fertility during the last couple of decades. READ MORE