In response to the urgent need for improved mapping of global biomass and the lack of any
current space systems capable of addressing this need, the BIOMASS mission was …

More than 80% of urban households in sub-Saharan Africa use charcoal as their main
source of cooking energy, and the demand is likely to increase for several decades …

Forests are important sources of livelihoods to millions of people and contribute to national
economic development of many countries. In addition, they are vital sources and sinks of …

Human use of biomass has become a major component of the global biogeochemical cycles
of carbon and nitrogen. The use of land for biomass production (eg cropland) is among the …

Understanding the fuelwood situation has always been hampered by lack of reliable
information. Only a very small fraction of fuelwood production is recorded. The greater part of …

Wood is considered to be a renewable resource. However, steep increases in production
followed by a peak and subsequent decline have been characteristic of natural forest-based …

Previous research has suggested a link between household dynamics (ie, average
household size and number of households) and environmental impacts at the national level …

Following more than 20 years of civil unrest, environmental information for southern Somalia
is scarce. Wood charcoal production and export is a major activity supporting war regimes in …

As scientists strive to make nature's value visible, a large portion of forests and wild
biodiversity known as non-wood forest products (NWFPs) continues to remain largely …

The “human appropriation of net primary production”(HANPP) has been suggested as a
comprehensive indicator to measure impacts of human land use on ecosystems. It accounts …