Freely available deforestation alerts can reduce emissions from land-use change

Autor: Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Katherine Shea, Fanny Moffette, A. H. Pickens
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nature Climate Change. 11:913-914
ISSN: 1758-6798
1758-678X
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01195-3
Popis: Subscriptions to a free, weekly deforestation alert system available on the simple interface Global Forest Watch reduced deforestation in the protected areas and logging concessions of tropical African forests. This suggests that freely available near-real-time forest monitoring systems can help reduce emissions from deforestation if they are integrated with forest policies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE