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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… Reference Drought Forest Tree mortality; Loss of forest biomass; Forest dieback Allen et al., 2010; Lewis et al., … montane forest Tree mortality, tree damage, loss of tree biomass Allen et al., 1999 Landslides Freshwater Change in … activity Ocean Ocean acidification, decrease in algae biomass, loss of calcareous organisms Hall-Spencer et al., …
Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific
… PICs have sought to create a new demand for coconut biomass by converting it into coconut oil based fuels. … production in the Pacific, there may be sufficient coconut biomass to produce much more. In particular, there may be … However, the key obstacle is not the availability of biomass, but the availability of labour to turn that biomass …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… on photosynthetic activity and, in turn, vegetation biomass. The NDVI has a strong correlation with cereal crop … Restoration of degraded lands allowed increase in plant biomass and thus carbon sequestration, improved water … dense woody and succulent species, and has a much higher biomass than would be expected under semiarid conditions …