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A method for calculating a land-use change carbon footprint (LUC-CFP) for agricultural commodities – applications to Brazilian beef and soy, Indonesian palm oil
Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, Methodologies, Tropical forests
New article: Focali researchers Martin Persson and Sabine Henders gets published in Global Change Biology.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/a-method-for-calculating-a-land-use-change-carbon-footprint-luc-cfp-for-agricultural-commodities-2013-applications-to-brazilian-beef-and-soy-indonesian-palm-oil
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Fruits from the forest and the fields: Forest conservation policies and intersecting social inequalities in Burkina Faso’s REDD+ program
Focaliresearcher, Gender, REDD
New article by Focali member Lisa Westholm published in International Forestry Review analyzes REDD+ documents and data on resource use in two villages in ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/fruits-from-the-forest-and-the-fields-forest-conservation-policies-and-intersecting-social-inequalities-in-burkina-faso2019s-redd-program
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Have Brazil’s deforestation policies hit the limits of their effectiveness?
Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Tropical forests
In a SEI news story Focali researchers Toby Gardner and Javier Godar describe their findings from a study on Brazil's deforestation.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/have-brazils-deforestation-policies-hit-the-limits
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Blog: Trees, forests and nutrition - Understanding the links
Agroforestry, Blog, Conference, Focaliresearcher, Food security, Landscapes
Blog from the ongoing World Congress of Agroforestry in Delhi, written by Focali researcher Matilda Palm
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/blog/archive/blog-trees-forests-and-nutrition-understanding-the-links
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Focali researchers Martin Persson and Sabine Henders get published in Global Change Biology
Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Methodologies, Tropical forests
Martin Persson, Sabine Henders and Christel Cederberg's research gets published in Global Change Biology.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/focali-researcher-martin-gets-published-in-global-change-biology
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New Era in the Fight Against Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities to Improve Policy Effectiveness
Conservation, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Tropical forests
In a new policy brief from SEI Focali researchers Javier Godar and Toby Gardner look at why deforestation policies in Brazil, after a decade of success, are ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/new-era-in-the-fight-against-deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon-opportunities-to-improve-policy-effectiveness
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Restoring dipterocarp rainforest diversity - tree regeneration, life-history traits and the light factor
Biodiversity, Dissertation, Focaliresearcher, Restoration, Tropical forests
Focalimember Malin Gustafsson defended her PhD thesis at Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in October. ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/restoring-dipterocarp-rainforest-diversity-tree-regeneration-life-history-traits-and-the-light-factor
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Carbon sequestration versus bioenergy: A case study from South India exploring the relative land-use efficiency of two options for climate change mitigation
Bioenergy, CDM, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Mitigation
Focali researchers Göran Berndes and Madelene Ostwald are co-writers of this article that comparestwo different land-use strategies for climate change ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/carbon-sequestration-versus-bioenergy-a-case-study-from-south-india-exploring-the-relative-land-use-efficiency-of-two-options-for-climate-change-mitigation
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Forest cover and global water governance
Focaliresearcher, SFM, Water
Anders Malmer is the main author to the chapter "Forest cover and global water governance" in the book “Forests and Society – Responding to Global Drivers of ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/forest-cover-and-global-water-governance
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Climate Change Policy in Africa with Special Reference to Energy and Land Use
Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Policy
The Focali researchers Gunnar Köhlin and Lisa Westholm have published an article in the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, addressing Climate Change ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/climate-change-policy-in-africa-with-special-reference-to-energy-and-land-use
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Whose Reality Counts? Critical Junctures in Livelihood Trajectories Under Deforestation
Deforestation, Focaliresearcher
New article by Focali member Robin Biddulph and colleague Pelle Amberntsson published in Journal of Economic and Social Geography on livelihood trajectories ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/whose-reality-counts-critical-junctures-in-livelihood-trajectories-under-deforestation
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Vast areas in the Brazilian Amazon may lose its protection new study finds
Focaliresearcher
Contestation over the use of land and forest areas in the Amazon have a long history, is heavily influenced by global consumption demands and as often the ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/vast-areas-in-the-brazilian-amazon-may-lose-its-protection
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Sustainability criteria for land use activities in the carbon market
Bioenergy, Carbon sequestration, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
A report from the EU Biofuel Baseline Project written by Focali researcher Matilda Palm and Sabine Henders together with Oskar Englund.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/sustainability-criteria-for-land-use-activities-in-the-carbon-market
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Making two parallel land-use sector debates meet: Carbon leakage and indirect land-use change
Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Landscapes
New article, published in Land Use Policy, written by the Focali researchers Madelene Ostwald and Sabine Henders
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/making-two-parallel-land-use-sector-debates-meet-carbon-leakage-and-indirect-land-use-change
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Article by Focali researchers about ”emission omissions” published in International Innovation
Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, REDD
In the article the Focali researchers Madelene Ostwald, Martin Persson and Sabine Henders describe their efforts to improve understanding relating to the ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/article-by-focali-researchers-about-201demission-omissions201d-published-in-international-innovation
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Climate Sensitivity of Tropical Trees Along an Elevation Gradient in Rwanda
Carbon sequestration, Climate Change, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Photosynthesis, Transpiration, Tropical forests
New study from Rwandan researchers together with Focaliresearchers Johan Uddling and Göran Wallin on climate sensitivity of tropical trees along an elevation ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/climate-sensitivity-of-tropical-trees-along-an-elevation-gradient-in-rwanda
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Preserving the World’s Tropical Forests - A Price on Carbon May Not Do
Costs, Finance, Focaliresearcher, REDD
An article by Focali researcher U. Martin Persson and Christian Azar, published in Environmental Science and Technology, 2010, 44 (1), pp 210–215.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/preserving-the-world2019s-tropical-forests-a-price-on-carbon-may-not-do
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Focali brief: Conserving nature on a budget – context matters
Deforestation, Focali, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, PES
This new Focali brief, written by Liv Lundberg and Martin Persson, offers guidance to policy makers on PES program design. Payments for ecosystem services ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/conserving-nature-on-a-budget-2013-context-matters
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Global Land Outlook - working paper on energy and land
Climate Change, Desertification, Energy, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
Focali researcher Göran Berndes is one of the main authors of the Global Land Outlook working paper on energy and land use - one in a series focusing on the ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/global-land-outlook
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Yann Clough
Focaliresearcher
Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/researchers/forskararkiv/yann-clough
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Can more trees improve groundwater levels?
Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Research grants, Restoration, Rural development, Water
Focali researchers have challenged the dominant paradigm in forest hydrology – that more trees equal less water – and their groundbreaking research has now ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/can-more-trees-improve-groundwater-recharge-focali-members-to-investigate-the-optimum-tree-cover-theory
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Tenure security interventions in Cambodia
Focaliresearcher, Policy
An article by Robin Biddulph published in the journal Geografiska Annaler.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/tenure-security-interventions-in-cambodia
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Conserve or convert? Pan-tropical modeling of REDD–bioenergy competition
Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Carbon sequestration, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, REDD
An article in Biological Conservation by Martin Persson
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/conserve-or-convert
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Focali brief: Looking for gender equality in REDD+
Focali, Focaliresearcher, Gender, Policy, REDD
The consideration of gender issues and women’s rights in REDD+ policy formulation and implementation can be seen as a moral imperative, but it is also based in ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/focali-brief-looking-for-gender-equality-in-redd
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What is good about Sri Lankan homegardens with regards to food security?
Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes
New article with agroforestry focus by Focali researchers Eskil Mattsson and Madelene Ostwald, together with S. P. Nissanka. A synthesis of the current ...
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/what-is-good-about-sri-lankan-homegardens-with-regards-to-food-security
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Life Cycle Assessment Publication
Focaliresearcher, Life Cycle
Ulrika Palme with colleagues was published in International Journal of Environmental Research.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/life-cycle-assessment-publication
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Thresholds of species loss in Amazonian deforestation frontier landscapes
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
Toby Gardner with collegues was published in Conservation Biology in January 2015.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/thresholds-of-species-loss-in-amazonian-deforestation-frontier-landscapes
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Democracy, development and the marine environment
Democracy, Focaliresearcher, Water
Aksel Sundström with colleagues gets published in Ocean & Coastal Management.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/democracy-development-and-the-marine-environment
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Towards more accurate and policy relevant footprint analyses: Tracing fine-scale socio-environmental impacts of production to consumption
Climate Change, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, International Trade, Policy
Javier Godar and Martin Persson with colleagues got published in Ecological Economics.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/towards-more-accurate-and-policy-relevant-footprint-analyses-tracing-fine-scale-socio-environmental-impacts-of-production-to-consumption
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Tree Crown Mapping in Managed Woodlands (Parklands) of Semi-Arid West Africa Using WorldView-2 Imagery and Geographic Object Based Image Analysis
Agroforestry, Carbon sequestration, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Global REDD-instruments
Martin Karlson, Madelene Ostwald and Heather Reese published in Sensors.
http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/tree-crown-mapping-in-managed-woodlands-parklands-of-semi-arid-west-africa-using-worldview-2-imagery-and-geographic-object-based-image-analysis