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White Paper 1 : Management of Essential Ecosystem Areas
Natural resources conservation is often being avoided in the context of development due to the fact that conservation tends to be considered counter productive to development. However, natural resources conservation issues are inseparable elements of sustainable development. Conservation as a concept may not yet be fully understood. Conservation areas are not limited to any administrative […]
USDOL Project EMPOWERs Woman to Read and Write
Alice’s household faces many challenges like any other single woman-headed household in her village. She has been unable to send any of her children to school, so none of them has been educated. She does not own a farm because within her husband’s culture, a woman can only inherit ancestral land from her father, not […]
Carbon Storage Potential in Degraded Forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia
This paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters was prepared under the NASA-funded Indonesia Carbon Monitoring System project to evaluate the carbon stocks of intact, degraded, secondary, and peat swamp forests in Kalimantan. A wall-to-wall map of aboveground biomass for the region was developed through a hybrid approach combining field inventory plots, airborne lidar, […]
