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by Bertrand Tessa, Fernando Evuna Mboro Eyang, Matthew Steil, Pascal Douard, Juan Abeso Ondo Eyang and Alex Martin - November 2013 publication
by Bertrand Tessa, Marcel Ibara, Pierre Methot, Susan Minnemeyer, Pascal Douard, Matthew Steil, Benoit Mertens, Jacques Kanwe and Huguette Ngilambi - December 2012À Propos de cette Publication
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by Benjamin Kushner, Richard Waite and Lauretta Burke - December 2012Across the Caribbean, national economies are heavily dependent on coastal ecosystem services. Coral reefs, mangroves, and other coastal ecosystems provide fish habitat, attract tourists, and protect shorelines from storm damage. However, coastal habitats continue to degrade
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by Benoit Mertens, Gideon Neba Shu, Matthew Steil, Bertrand Tessa, Susan Minnemeyer, Pascal Douard, Jean-Daniel Mendomo Blang, Andrew Leach, Duclaire Mbouna, Pierre Mboua, Adeline Fuezing, Pierre Methot and Huguette Nglilambi - October 2012The Interactive Forest Atlas of Cameroon is a living forest information system hosted in the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) and supported by a joint team including members from MINFOF and the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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by John Talberth, Erin Gray, Evan Branosky and Todd Gartner - February 2012Summary
- In the Neuse River Basin in North Carolina, WRI is working with partners to identify beneficiaries and their water-related dependencies. We learned that clear documentation of the risks that beneficiaries face from water pollution, drought, and watershed
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by John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - June 2011This paper explores current use valuation programs as one tool for conserving and fostering sustainable management of southern U.S. forests under private ownership. The brief identifies key constraints on existing programs and suggests measures that could be
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by Craig Hanson and Logan Yonavjak - May 2011SUMMARY
A variety of measures exist to prevent deforestation or forest conversion to other land uses. Some of these measures, such as purchasing land outright for conservation or purchasing conservation easements, are designed to permanently protect forests by
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by John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - March 2011To date, traditional public land acquisition programs have played a relatively small role in the conservation and sustainable management of southern U.S. forests. The South trails behind other U.S. regions in both the percent of the land base and the acres per
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by Craig Hanson, John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - February 2011The forested watersheds of the southern United States provide a number of benefits—including water flow regulation, flood control, water purification, erosion control, and freshwater supply—to the region’s citizens, communities, and businesses.
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by Logan Yonavjak, Craig Hanson, John Talberth and Todd Gartner - January 2011Forests of the southern United States provide a wide variety of benefits—collectively known as “ecosystem services”—to people, communities, and businesses. For example, they provide timber, help purify water, control soil erosion, help regulate climate by
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by Lyna Bélanger and Benoit Mertens - January 2011Consciente du rôle essentiel des écosystèmes forestiers, le gouvernement de la RDC s’est engagé, en partenariat avec la communauté internationale, à améliorer la gouvernance du secteur forestier afin d’en assurer une gestion durable.
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January 2011This series is made possible with support from Toyota.