She has spent her life studying how human societies manage common resources such as forests, rivers, pastures or wildlife.
Countries that can prove they store carbon, such as via their forests, can sell these credits on the market to businesses that have exceeded the agreed cap on their own allowable carbon emissions.
There are also some ecosystems, such as the boreal forests of Canada and Siberia and the Amazon rainforest, which are huge absorbers of carbon dioxide, but which are changing rapidly because of temperature increases and deforestation.
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We should also reconsider widely implemented practices such as culling dingos or burning forests to reduce fuels in southern Australia as an asset-protection measure.
There are 17 different land cover types shown in the image, including 11 natural vegetation types such as deciduous and evergreen forests, savannas, and wetlands.
This has been spent, not just on roads, bridges and business parks, but on small- scale schemes such as village-owned forests to help keep remote communities alive.
Dark rumours are circulating that the Malaysians and Ethiopians will try to block any agreement favourable to America in retaliation for that country's criticism of their policies on such things as the clear-cutting of forests.
He promotes the concept of an Eastern wildway to physically connect America's state parks, conservation areas and forests so wide-ranging animals such as bears, wolves and eagles can roam freely.
Recent visitors can access the newly redesigned recreation.gov, the federal government's one-stop shop for trip planning and reservations on public lands, such as national parks, wildlife refuges, waterways, forests and recreation areas.
Dovzhenko depicts such ardent figures as a crazed monk who looms over the embattled forests, maidens at their riverside rite, and two grandsons on divergent paths (an ineffectual nationalist and a rationalist revolutionary) with a spontaneous sympathy for their diverse forms of zealotry.
Although its natural habitat is broadleafed or mixed forests, it can spread quickly through managed landscapes such as pastures, rail embankments and river banks.
"One adaptation option for Africa is to keep her forests standing so that they provide essential environmental services such as carbon sinks, " she said.
It includes peat bogs and raised bogs, alluvial and riverine forests, as well as complete cave systems, such as the Schrattenfluh and the Napf area.
While sustainable forestry techniques -- such as selectively culling trees rather than clear-cutting whole areas of forests -- could reduce deforestation of rainforests by millions of acres per year, according to National Geographic, travellers can also play their part.
Timber is merely one of many uses to which forests are put, which also include non-extractive uses such as recreation, watershed management and wildlife.
While the story of the world's old-growth forests would appear to be one of unremitting destruction, forests lost to logging and agriculture are actually growing back in some areas, such as the northeast region of the United States and parts of Europe.
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Earlier forest blockades, by Greenpeace and others, showed up the logging companies' destructive practices, such as over-cutting, too-large clear-cuts, and damage not only to the forests but to salmon streams.
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