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Assessing Bioenergy Harvest Risks: Geospatially Explicit Tools for Maintaining Soil Productivity in Western US Forests

LandLibrary Resource
Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2010
Global

Biomass harvesting for energy production and forest health can impact the soil resource by altering inherent chemical, physical and biological properties. These impacts raise concern about damaging sensitive forest soils, even with the prospect of maintaining vigorous forest growth through biomass harvesting operations.

REDD+ and the Indigenous Question: A Case Study from Ecuador

LandLibrary Resource
Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2010
Ecuador

One of the main issues regarding the implementation of REDD+ in Latin America has been the growing concern that such projects may infringe upon the rights and negatively affect the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities. Various indigenous and civil society organizations are ardently opposed to the initiative.

An Ecosystem Approach to Recreation Location Quotients

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Peer-reviewed publication
Dezembro, 2010
Global

Despite the widespread agreement on the importance of preserving ecological integrity in conservation and outdoor recreation decision-making processes, traditional metrics analyzing the supply of and demand for conservation and recreation resources have focused on geographical and population-centric units of measurement rather than ecological ones.