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Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change

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Climate change is acknowledged as a global phenomenon, with local emissions causing damages across the globe and over extended periods. This makes the quantification of the "social cost of carbon" complex but crucial for effective policy-making. The study addresses the inconsistent focus on modeling the physical impacts of climate change relative to understanding its economic consequences.

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Exotic Plant Species as Problems and Solutions in Ecological Restoration: A Synthesis

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The Biodiversity Credit Market needs rigorous baseline, monitoring, and validation practices

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Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Latin America: Analysing the performance of 40 case studies

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The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services

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The global status and trends of Payments for Ecosystem Services

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Beyond Tenure: Rights-based Approaches to Peoples and Forests

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Women, income and poverty: Gendered access to resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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This article analyzes gendered income poverty trends in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on the complex societal shifts that emerged during the transition from apartheid. The authors highlight how these changes have affected women’s access to resources—improving it through increased employment opportunities and hindering it due to challenges like the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Gender equality, food security and the sustainable development goals

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Environmental Rights are a Human Right to a Healthy Environment: A Brief Review

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Rural Women, Poverty and Natural Resources: Sustenance, Sustainability and Struggle for Change

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Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti

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Erythrina (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae): A Versatile Genus for Agroforestry Systems in the Tropics.

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Evaluating alder-endophyte (Alnus acuminata-Frankia-Mycorrhizae) interactions

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Alnus acuminata: Valuable Timber Tree for Tropical Highlands

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Livelihoods, Forests, and Conservation in Developing Countries: An Overview

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Poverty is a huge challenge, with 2.8 billion of the world’s 6 billion people living on less than $2 a day. The paper highlights the alarming extent of poverty in developing countries and addresses the rapid deforestation, which compromises ecological integrity and exacerbates social inequities. The authors focus on exploring whether poverty alleviation and forest conservation can be aligned as complementary rather than conflicting objectives.

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Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts

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Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of organizations engaged in tree planting to meet international targets exceeding a trillion trees. These initiatives aim to sequester carbon, conserve biodiversity, enhance water quality, and reduce social inequity. Despite these goals, frequent failures and unintended ecological and social impacts have led to the creation of numerous best practice guidelines for reforestation.

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Climate Risk Management

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The contradiction of the sustainable development goals: Growth versus ecology on a finite planet

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The 10 Elements of Agroecology: enabling transitions towards sustainable agriculture and food systems through visual narratives

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