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Avoiding Unintended Outcomes from REDD
Author(s) -
Venter Oscar,
Watson James E.M.,
Meijaard Erik,
Laurance William F.,
Possingham Hugh P.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
conservation biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.2
H-Index - 222
eISSN - 1523-1739
pISSN - 0888-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01391.x
Subject(s) - watson , ecology , library science , rainforest , geography , biology , computer science , natural language processing
Tropical forests occur almost exclusively in developing\udcountries and sustain at least half of the world’s species\ud(Wilson 1992). These forests store vast amounts of carbon\ud(IPCC 2007) and provide homes and resources for 60 million people (WCFSD 1999). If they continue to be cleared at current rates of 6–12 million ha/year (Achard et al. 2002; FAO 2006), all economically exploitable tropical forests, and the values they sustain, could disappear before 2100 (TCG 2009)