Dietary and policy priorities to reduce the global crises of obesity and diabetes

D Mozaffarian - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
The world faces a global nutrition crisis, most clearly evidenced by the twin pandemics of
obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Yet, substantial confusion and controversy exist about …

Putting the pieces together: integration for forest landscape restoration implementation

S Mansourian, J Parrotta, P Balaji… - Land Degradation & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of forest landscape restoration (FLR) is being widely adopted around the globe
by governmental, non‐governmental agencies, and the private sector, all of whom see FLR …

A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of 'climate progressive'nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways

K Anderson, JF Broderick, I Stoddard - Climate Policy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement establishes an international covenant to reduce emissions
in line with holding the increase in temperature to 'well below 2° C… and to pursue… 1.5° …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting and analyzing land use and land cover changes in the region of Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya using time-series landsat data from 1985 to 2017

JS Alawamy, SK Balasundram, AH Mohd. Hanif… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The region of Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar in northeastern Libya has undergone rapid, wide-ranging
changes in the land use and land cover (LULC) intensified by the conversion of natural …

Agriculture is the main driver of deforestation in Tanzania

N Doggart, T Morgan-Brown, E Lyimo… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Reducing deforestation can generate multiple economic, social and ecological benefits by
safeguarding the climate and other ecosystem services provided by forests. Understanding …

U-Net convolutional networks for mining land cover classification based on high-resolution UAV imagery

TL Giang, KB Dang, QT Le, VG Nguyen, SS Tong… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mining activities are the leading cause of deforestation, land-use changes, and pollution.
Land use/cover mapping in Vietnam every five years is not useful to monitor land covers in …

Assessing forest cover vulnerability in Uttarakhand, India using analytical hierarchy process

P Pokhriyal, S Rehman, G Areendran, K Raj… - Modeling Earth Systems …, 2020 - Springer
Forests are the most important terrestrial ecosystems providing sustenance not only to
biodiversity but also to the rural communities. These resources are subjected to constant …

[HTML][HTML] REDD+: If communities are the solution, what is the problem?

M Skutsch, E Turnhout - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify
commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation of charcoal briquette from palm kernel shells: case study in Ghana

BO Bonsu, M Takase, J Mantey - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
In Ghana, the potential of palm kernel shells as renewable energy in charcoal production
has not been exploited adequately. Using a low-cost instrument (kiln and compressor box) …

[HTML][HTML] How can remote sensing help monitor tropical moist forest degradation?—a systematic review

C Dupuis, P Lejeune, A Michez, A Fayolle - Remote sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the context of the climate and biodiversity crisis facing our planet, tropical forests playing a
key role in global carbon flux and containing over half of Earth's species are important to …