Showing papers by "Alan Grainger published in 2010"
TL;DR: The authors argue that long-run changes in forest cover in a country or region cannot be separated from the overall pattern of land use changes, and this pattern is determined by relative land values.
283 citations
Clinton Foundation1, University of Leeds2, University of California, Berkeley3, Columbia University4, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation5, Woods Hole Research Center6, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment7, Norwegian Space Centre8, World Resources Institute9
TL;DR: In this article, a five-part plan for estimating forest carbon stocks and emissions with the accuracy and certainty needed to support a policy for REDD-plus framework considered at the UNFCCC COP-15 in developing countries is presented.
84 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of current methods for constructing global knowledge of changes in tropical forest area, carbon density, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and find a deficiency in formal institutions for global measurement and constructing globally knowledge.
Abstract: Knowledge of tropical forest change remains uncertain, affecting our ability to produce accurate estimates of globally aggregated parameters to support clear global statements about ‘the tropical forests’. This paper reviews current methods for constructing global knowledge of changes in tropical forest area, carbon density, biodiversity and ecosystem services. It finds a deficiency in formal institutions for global measurement and constructing global knowledge. In their absence, informal institutions have proliferated, increasing the spread of estimates. This is exacerbated by dependence on inaccurate official statistics, which has limited construction of knowledge about forest area change through modelling. Employing the new concept of the Knowledge Exchange Chain shows the interdependence of different disciplines in constructing composite information. Limitations linked to compartmentalization and scale are present, as predicted by the ‘post-normal hypothesis’. Disciplinary compartmentalization has imp...
55 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on quantifiable state attributes instead of all their features and structuring attributes in more integrated ways to make such concepts easier to measure, and reduce uncertainty.
9 citations