Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

DS Wilcove, X Giam, DP Edwards, B Fisher… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
In 2004, Navjot Sodhi and colleagues warned that logging and agricultural conversion of
Southeast Asia's forests were leading to a biodiversity disaster. We evaluate this prediction …

Social safeguards and co-benefits in REDD+: a review of the adjacent possible

A Chhatre, S Lakhanpal, AM Larson, F Nelson… - Current Opinion in …, 2012 - Elsevier
We provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on social safeguards and co-benefits in
REDD+ with a focus on debates on: first, tenure security, and second, effective participation …

[PDF][PDF] IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Chapter 24 Asia

Y Hijioka, E Lin, JJ Pereira… - … : Part B: Regional …, 2014 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of
the Asian region over the past century (high confidence).{24.3} Increasing numbers of warm …

What drives deforestation and what stops it? A meta-analysis

J Busch, K Ferretti-Gallon - Review of Environmental …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …

Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation

J Busch, J Engelmann, SC Cook-Patton… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Achieving the 1.5–2.0° C temperature targets of the Paris climate agreement
requires not only reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) but also increasing …

Assessing costs of Indonesian fires and the benefits of restoring peatland

L Kiely, DV Spracklen, SR Arnold… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deforestation and drainage has made Indonesian peatlands susceptible to burning. Large
fires occur regularly, destroying agricultural crops and forest, emitting large amounts of CO2 …

Carbon emissions from forest conversion by Kalimantan oil palm plantations

KM Carlson, LM Curran, GP Asner, AMD Pittman… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Oil palm supplies> 30% of world vegetable oil production. Plantation expansion is occurring
throughout the tropics, predominantly in Indonesia, where forests with heterogeneous …

Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions

SA Sarkodie, PA Owusu, T Leirvik - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Significant progress has been made towards mitigating climate change and its impacts
across countries. However, the transboundary effect of CO 2 emissions means that …

Reductions in emissions from deforestation from Indonesia's moratorium on new oil palm, timber, and logging concessions

J Busch, K Ferretti-Gallon… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, Indonesia instituted a nationwide
moratorium on new license areas (“concessions”) for oil palm plantations, timber plantations …

The relationship between carbon dioxide and agriculture in Ghana: a comparison of VECM and ARDL model

S Asumadu-Sarkodie, PA Owusu - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper, the relationship between carbon dioxide and agriculture in Ghana was
investigated by comparing a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and Autoregressive …