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Who drives conservation in china? a case study in protected areas in yunnan, southwest china
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Forest Trends as mentioned in this paper is a non-profit organization that advances sustainable forestry and forestry's contribution to community livelihoods worldwide, aiming to expand the focus of forestry beyond timber and promote markets for ecosystem services provided by forests such as watershed protection, biodiversity and carbon storage.Abstract:
Forest Trends (http://www.forest-trends.org): Forest Trends is a non-profit organization that advances sustainable forestry and forestry’s contribution to community livelihoods worldwide. It aims to expand the focus of forestry beyond timber and promotes markets for ecosystem services provided by forests such as watershed protection, biodiversity and carbon storage. Forest Trends analyzes strategic market and policy issues, catalyzes connections between forward-looking producers, communities, and investors and develops new financial tools to help markets work for conservation and people. It was created in 1999 by an international group of leaders from forest industry, environmental NGOs and investment institutions.read more
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Human population in the biodiversity hotspots.
TL;DR: Estimates of key demographic variables for each hotspot and for three extensive tropical forest areas that are less immediately threatened suggest that substantial human-induced environmental changes are likely to continue in the hotspots and that demographic change remains an important factor in global biodiversity conservation.
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Ecological degradation in protected areas : The case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas
TL;DR: It is generally perceived that biodiversity is better protected from human activities after an area is designated as a protected area, but it is found that this common perception was not true in Wolong Nature Reserve, which was established in 1975 as a “flagship” protected area for the world-renowned endangered giant pandas.
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Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policy-Makers and Citizens in Environmental Governance
TL;DR: The notion of "civic science" is used interchangeably with participatory, citizen, stakeholder and democratic science, which are all catch words that signify various attempts to increase public participation in the production and use of scientific knowledge.
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Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
TL;DR: O'Riordan et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a new form of food production and consumption based on more ecological principles and in harmony with the cultures, knowledges and collective capacities of the producers themselves.