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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53443#.VMWuSCzQrzE Author(s)    Oliver O. O. Enuoh 1* , Francis E. Bisong 2   Affiliation(s) 1 Tropical Ecological Consult Ltd., Abuja, Nigeria . 2 Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Nigeria has lost over 90% of her forest resources due to the hydra-headed and enduring problem of deforestation, hinging on timber logging, establishment of agricultural plantations in hitherto intact forest reserves, construction of highways, mining of solid minerals, approval of taungya farming activities in forest reserves, extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and dereservation of large areas of certain forest reserves for other economic and development activities. Though colonialism was dismantled in the first half of the twentieth century, its policies on forest nationalization remain...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52872#.VKtGkMnQrzE Author(s)   Humberto Reyes , Blanca M. Vázquez , Carmen Jasso , Miguel Aguilar Affiliation(s) Coordinación de Geografía, Facultad de Ciencias Socialesy Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México . ABSTRACT Deforestation and fragmentation of tropical forest are the most serious threats to biodiversity. In the lowlands of the Huasteca Potosina region, Mexico, more than 95,000 ha of tropical forest have disappeared. This paper analyses tree species composition in tropical forest patches of this highly deforested region, located in northeast of Mexico. At present, only 57 r...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52455#.VJjJdcCAM4 Author(s)   Stephen Mutimba 1* , Francis X. Mkanda 2 , Richard Kibulo 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Camco Advisory Services (K) Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya . 2 Sustainable Land Management Project, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania . ABSTRACT The sustainable land management (SLM) project is seeking to engage with public institutions to explore the possibility of using the energy-switch principle presented by the carbon market to reduce emissions from inefficient use of biomass energy and discharge of human waste into the environment. Such a switch will be a triple-win situation that improves the natural environment, reduces deforestation,...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52288#.VI-PY8nQrzE Author(s) Somanta Chan 1* , Nophea Sasaki 1,2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Policy and Management Informatics, Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan . 2 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia . ABSTRACT Carbon emission reductions through reducing deforestation and forest degradation or REDD+ scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change could not be achieved without understanding the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Until recently, only a handful of study has focused on such drivers. Cambodia ex...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47466#.VFmy2GfHRK0 Author(s) Yu Ya Aye , Savent Pampasit , Chanin Umponstira , Kanita Thanacharoenchanaphas , Nophea Sasaki Affiliation(s) Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand . Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand . Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand . Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Nare...