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Regional and global concerns over wetlands and water quality

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This paper examines the ecological role of wetlands in agricultural cachements and examines the dymamics of nutrient loading in wetlands at a local and watershed scale.

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Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity?

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This paper provides a literature review on the role of agroforestry in conserving biodiversity within human-dominated landscapes.

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Agro-Successional Restoration as a Strategy to Facilitate Tropical Forest Recovery

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In the review article, it compares the forestry restoration model with the agroforestry restoration model. Even though they both incorporate the same techniques for controlling weeds and preparing the site for restoration, they differ in other aspects. One of the two agroforestry methods for restoration is the taungya method, which is when mixed crops and trees are all planted together, while the other is the agro-successional restoration method. 

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From Target to Implementation: Perspectives for the International Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration

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This article describes the international landscape of governance structures and institutions focused on promoting restoration. It aims to understand how the activities of these institutions with overlapping objectives can align and complement each other in order to create a more effective governance approach.

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Impact of Forest Management on Species Richness: Global Meta-Analysis and Economic Trade-offs

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Leaders in Action: Achieving Forest Landscape Restoration Through Online Learning

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Strategies and innovations for capacity building on ecological restoration

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Business models for sustainable investments in the context of tropical forest restoration

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This paper outlines the context and approaches of effective business models for sustainable investments in Tropical Forests. Triple bottom line business opportunities are defined and identified through a review of literature and analysis of three case studies (InIkea, FCFR Project, and Sustain Project). The conceptual frameworks surrounding sustainable business models are examined. Challenges and opportunities into the future are also explored.

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An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation

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The article discusses how the current definitions of forest degradation do not account for certain factors that should be included, and further presents that the monitoring of forests is a much more holistic means of determining the state and the process (as a continuum of space and/or time) of degradation, which in turn can allow for much better restoration treatment options.

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Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality

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Aboveground carbon is directly impacted by deforestation and degradation, thus it is often the variable of choice in monitoring activities. It is also used to estimate the amount of carbon in other pools. This article reviews methods available to estimate national-level forest carbon stocks in developing countries.

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Advances in remote sensing technology and implications for measuring and monitoring forest carbon stocks 
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Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation

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This paper seeks to review critiques concerning neoliberal biodiversity conservation. The author sees two reasons for this review. First off, the majority of focus has been on neoliberal natures and neoliberal environment instead of neoliberal conservation. Second, there has been recent papers that explore the latter but the lessons are disconnected. Thus, this review seeks to analyze and provide connections among an emerging field. 

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Ecosystem Services Approach to Landscape Restoration and Sustainable Livelihoods

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On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

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As pristine tropical forests get harder to preserve, much expectation has been allocated to the conservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity into Human-modified landscales (HMLs). However, it has not been fully assessed to what degree HMLs are able to sustain ecosystem services and what management practices can enhance biodiversity conservatoin in them.

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Policy Options for the World's Primary Forests in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

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Around the world, primary forest continue to decline. The authors of this article recognize that international forest policies is one means to slow or turn around these trends and thus they identify four new actions that can provide a policy foundation for key international negotiations.

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Mainstreaming Native Species-Based Forest Restoration

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Biofuels: The Impact of Oil Palm on Forests and Climate

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Restoring Forests For Communities, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services

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This publication summarizes the proceedings of a 2011 conference held in Bogor, Indonesia titled "Restoring Forests For Communities, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services". The aim of the conference was to provide a space in which forest restoration approaches used in Indonesia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia were shared and discussed. The report includes summaries of the opening and closing remarks along with the conference's seven presentations. 

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Pest Management in Tropical Forestry

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Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers: Definitions, opportunities and constraints

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