Sentence examples for forest scarcity from inspiring English sources

Our results suggest that land use preferences, culture, forest scarcity and dependency, inequalities (e.g., land use, amount of forest, and land area), and lack of technical capacities are key elements to be considered when developing a REDD+ strategy with colonist communities.

Rudel et al. (2005) assigned China to the "forest scarcity" category.

Rudel et al. (2005) identified two major pathways of forest recovery after agricultural expansion ends: (1) economic development and (2) forest scarcity.

States are usually critical actors in this type of forest recovery because they create forestation programs in response to forest scarcities.

Countries generally do not stop deforesting until they industrialise and urbanise, reducing their rural population, or they cut down their forests to such an extent that timber scarcity or environmental disasters lead to urgent protection, as in China.

Large scale denudation of forest cover, scarcity of water, air and water pollution, degradation of soil and agricultural lands, land subsidence, haphazard dumping of coal and overburden are some of the conspicuous environmental implications of coal mining in north eastern coal mines of Meghalaya, India (Swer and Singh 2004).

Skutch (1944) believed the quetzals preferred cloud forests in which the trees are 30-45 m tall, while LaBastille et al. (1972) found that it required mature or virgin "cloud" forest with a scarcity of hunters and trappers.

Increasingly this brings our global economy and human wellbeing at risk, as it leads to loss of biodiversity, healthy soils and forest cover, water scarcity, global warming and it brings global food security at risk.

As explained by participants of the focus group discussion, the continuous dwindling of forest cover caused scarcity of wood for fuel and construction material.

However, direct field observation and informal interview indicated that the scarcity of forest products for household consumption forced the local population to plant trees around homesteads and protect forests in areas not usable for agriculture in recent times.

The influence of the game changers is further strengthened by general trends in low-income countries such as the rising cost of fuelwood (because of increasing scarcity and forest sector reforms).