The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

E Meijaard, TM Brooks, KM Carlson, EM Slade… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

Oil palm production, instrumental and relational values: the public relations battle for hearts, heads, and hands along the value chain

B Lusiana, M Slingerland, A Miccolis… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Large-scale oil palm monoculture production in tropical forest habitats meets
strong objections.•Instrumental, relational and intrinsic values of nature are at risk.•The oil …

Plant diversity, forest dependency, and alien plant invasions in tropical agricultural landscapes

K Rembold, H Mangopo, SS Tjitrosoedirdjo… - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Land-use change and intensification in tropical rainforest regions is generally linked to a
loss in species diversity that especially affects forest-dependent species. Indonesia is …

Riparian buffers in tropical agriculture: Scientific support, effectiveness and directions for policy

SH Luke, EM Slade, CL Gray… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There is a weak evidence base supporting the effective management of riparian ecosystems
within tropical agriculture. Policies to protect riparian buffers—strips of non‐cultivated land …

Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indonesia

T Santika, KA Wilson, EA Law, FAV St John… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has emerged as the leading sustainability
certification system to tackle socioenvironmental issues associated with the oil palm …

Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies

K Mohd Hanafiah, AH Abd Mutalib, P Miard… - Sustainability …, 2022 - Springer
Palm oil (PO) is an important source of livelihood, but unsustainable practices and
widespread consumption may threaten human and planetary health. We reviewed 234 …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of forest management on water quality

NW Shah, BR Baillie, K Bishop, S Ferraz… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water quality is generally high in watercourses draining forested areas. However, forest
management can lead to detrimental effects on water quality and the aquatic environment …

Land-use change is associated with a significant loss of freshwater fish species and functional richness in Sabah, Malaysia

CL Wilkinson, DCJ Yeo, HH Tan, AH Fikri… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global biodiversity is being lost due to extensive anthropogenic land cover change. In
Southeast Asia, biodiversity-rich forests are being extensively logged and converted to oil …

Monoculture plantations impede forest recovery: Evidence from the regeneration of lowland subtropical forest in Hong Kong

H Zhu, J Zhang, ML Cheuk, BCH Hau… - Frontiers in forests and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic disturbance has led to widespread clearance and degradation of tropical
forests, and tree planting has been promoted as an effective solution for recovery. However …

[HTML][HTML] Forest buffer-strips mitigate the negative impact of oil palm plantations on stream communities

OA Rojas-Castillo, S Kepfer-Rojas, N Vargas… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The global area cultivated with oil palm has doubled in the past two decades, causing
deforestation, land-use change, freshwater pollution, and species loss in tropical …