Sentence examples for initial deforestation from inspiring English sources

And in case a certain grazing area is eventually abandoned, the carbon captured by encroaching secondary forests will offset the CO2 released at the initial deforestation.

Findings from the household survey and key informant interviews provide some support for the forest transition theory a long-term sequence from initial deforestation due to human settlement to eventual forest recovery (Mather 1992).

The initial short-term effect of deforestation is the mobilization of aggressive adult sandflies, which have been disturbed while resting.

We show that if deforestation occurs from some initial state, then it must occur in finite time along every optimal path so that zero forest cover is the globally stable optimal steady state.

In the initial episode, for example, Harrison Ford discovers mass deforestation in Indonesia, Don Cheadle talks to victims of persistent drought in Texas, and Tom Friedman ventures into Syria and finds that the civil war there was caused, along with other factors, by an absence of rain, then an absence of government response.

Temporal trends of deforestation followed a sigmoidal curve, with initial slow change accelerating though the middle phases then slowing in recent times.

Virgin and G.E. tested a number of biofuels before choosing coconut and babassu because they were suitable in initial tests and would not compete with staple food supplies or cause deforestation, the airline said.

There was a total gross loss of native forest of 30% (54,304 ha), but a net loss of initial cover of only 5.1% (9130 ha), at an annual net deforestation rate of 0.2%.

The diversity of deforestation and carbon stock estimates for Mato Grosso provides an initial indication of research needs to address source data uncertainties for REDD+.

Finally, the initial number of forest areas has decreased in the tropical region due to deforestation while forest areas have increased in the temperate and boreal zones, due to afforestation.

The Washington DC-based research institute plans to focus its initial efforts on the supply chains of four commodities with especially strong links to deforestation: palm oil, pulp and paper, beef and soya.