The impact of population growth on natural resources and farmers' capacity to adapt to climate change in low-income countries

MM Maja, SF Ayano - Earth Systems and Environment, 2021 - Springer
Population growth and natural resources are intricately linked and play role in climate
disruption and farmers' ability to adapt to climate change especially in develo** countries …

Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation

B Güneralp, S Lwasa, H Masundire… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Africa, a continent exceptionally rich in biodiversity, is rapidly urbanizing. Africa's
urbanization is manifest in the growth of its megacities as well as that of its smaller towns …

The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation

S Thorn, S Seibold, AB Leverkus… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global sustainability agendas focus primarily on halting deforestation, yet the biodiversity
crisis resulting from the degradation of remaining forests is going largely unnoticed. Forest …

[HTML][HTML] An analysis of efforts to scale up clean household energy for cooking around the world

AK Quinn, N Bruce, E Puzzolo, K Dickinson… - Energy for Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
Approximately 3 billion people, most of whom live in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, rely on
solid fuels (ie wood, crop wastes, dung, charcoal) and kerosene for their cooking needs …

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene

Y Malhi, TA Gardner, GR Goldsmith… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized as an epoch when human influence has begun to
fundamentally alter many aspects of the Earth system and many of the planet's biomes …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat loss and the effectiveness of protected areas in the Cerrado Biodiversity Hotspot

RD Françoso, R Brandão, CC Nogueira… - Natureza & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The definition of conservation targets is strategic for the protection of biodiversity and must
ensure the representativeness and persistence of biodiversity components. This is …

A global analysis of protected area management effectiveness

F Leverington, KL Costa, H Pavese, A Lisle… - Environmental …, 2010 - Springer
We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness
across the world and developed a method for analyzing results across diverse assessment …

On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

FPL Melo, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, L Fahrig… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
With the decreasing affordability of protecting large blocks of pristine tropical forests,
ecologists have staked their hopes on the management of human-modified landscapes …

The environmental impacts of charcoal production in tropical ecosystems of the world: A synthesis

EN Chidumayo, DJ Gumbo - Energy for Sustainable Development, 2013 - Elsevier
Charcoal production in tropical regions of the world is often perceived to have devastating
ecological and environmental effects and governments, public forestry institutions and non …

Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

R Aerts, O Honnay - BMC ecology, 2011 - Springer
Globally, forests cover nearly one third of the land area and they contain over 80% of
terrestrial biodiversity. Both the extent and quality of forest habitat continue to decrease and …